The clan originated in a forest secluded from all contact except the occasional unwary traveler. These ninja have direct bloodline to shamans and astral projectors. They have lived with animals and have tried to learn their language. One day while meditating a ninja astral projected by accident, the first in a long time. He saw himself in a garden on the spirit plane, and there were animals every where. There was one white figure, though, that was human. It walked up to the ninja and asked him how he got there. the ninja was speechless and the figure laughed. The figure never had one constant form, it was as if it was many people at once. The figure offered a gift, the gift of an animal spirit attuned to the person itself. But the ninja had to answer why he would take it. The ninja said to help his people and to protect his village. The figure smiled and a bright light started to grow from it. The ninja was blinded and closed his eyes. When he opened them he was back on his mat with his legs crossed. He stood up and walked over to a small bowl that had water in it. When he looked in he saw the figure smiling. Then a bunch of spirits of animals came pouring out of the bowl and filling the room. They purred and yipped with happiness as they surrounded the ninja, rubbing against him. They had warmth even though they were spirits.Then, all at once, they jumped into him, filling his core with warmth and knowledge of the animals. They went through his memories and to all the people in his clan. Then one by one the animals left, leaving a piece of themselves in him, and started going out to the clan members. The moon was high in the sky and the whole village was silent, sleeping, tucked into their warm summer night blankets. The animals went to each member, finding the best fit, then, when they found that fit, they walked into the spirit of the person, sharing the knowledge of that animal and all its secrets. The next morning when everyone woke up the one ninja saw what had happened. He looked back in the bowl and saw that he had changed slightly. All of his hair was white, and he looked much wiser. When he stepped out of his house he gasped at what he say. Each and every clan member had a spirit animal. He didnt know if they could see them (which they couldn't), but he could. Since he was the leader he called a meeting in the center of the vilage for all the people to come. He explained what had happened, and explained how each member could learn to see there spirit animal in them. After the meeting he had an insight of more knowledge. Now with the spirit animals the members can talk to other animals like it, and fuse with their spirit animal to become a hybrid. Again the ninja was awed. He set out on teaching everyone how to do this. From then on each newborn was put through a ritual to reveal their spirit animal, and from there what training they were to go through to learn how to control it. After the member learned what there animal was they were given a necklace with the animal carved totem like into the pendant that hung from the necklace. Each animal was different in its own way, no two of the same species was ever alike, even if the detail was minute. And thus the Zoanthrope clan was born.

Name: Beast Mode (1/4)
Rank: C
Type: Taijutsu
Range: Self
Element: N/A
Description: The user becomes 25% beast, maybe growing animal ears or tails or claws, depending on the animal. Most of the transformation is inside of the body. This gives the user a 10% boost in speed, strength, dexterity, and endurance.
Chakra Cost: 5cp, 2cp upkeep

Name: Beast Mode (2/4)
Rank: B
Type: Taijutsu
Range: Self
Element: N/A
Description: The user becomes 50% beast, the limbs becoming animal like, increasing the boost the user gets. This gives the user a 25% boost in speed, strength, dexterity, and endurance.
Chakra Cost: 10cp, 3cp upkeep

Name: Beast Mode (3/4)
Rank: A
Type: Taijutsu
Range: Self
Element: N/A
Description: The user becomes 75% beast, the entire body becoming animal like, but the same size of the user as they were before, so the look fully transformed just not there yet. This gives the user a 35% boost in speed, strength, dexterity, and endurance.
Chakra Cost: 20cp, 5cp upkeep

Name: Beast Mode (4/4)
Rank: S
Type: Taijutsu
Range: Self
Element: N/A
Description: The user becomes a full beast, not only looking like the beast of the animal they are, but growing in size and bulking up, their senses and power greatly increasing. This gives the user a 50% boost in speed, strength, dexterity, and endurance.
Chakra Cost: 35cp, 7cp upkeep

beast modes cannot be stacked

Name: Animal Aura
Rank: C
Type: Taijutsu
Range: close (0-5m)
Element: N/A
Description: The user surrounds them self in a cloak of chakra that resembles their beast mode, increasing their range of attacks and slight increase in attack and defense.
Chakra Cost: 8cp. 2cp upkeep

Name: Animal Summoning
Rank: B
Type:
Range: close to mid
Element: N/A
Description: The user summons their beast form animal the size of normal sized horses, and are made from chakra. That means if the original animal is smaller it will be bigger, and if it is larger it will be smaller. There are six animals summoned and they take two hits before dispersing.
Chakra Cost: 12cp

Name: Feral Mode
Rank: C - S
Type: Taijutsu
Range: self
Element: N/A
Description: The user will go into a feral like mode in which all of their stats are increased five percent and they ignore the damage they take for the duration the feral mode lasts. (they still receive damage just dont realize it yet.) This jutsu exhausts the chakra of the user, making them unable to use jutsu for three posts after the jutsu wears off.
C: three posts
B: five posts
A: eight posts
S: twelve posts
Chakra Cost: 5cp, 11cp, 23cp, 37cp