It's complete b.s. but it's-- unfortunately just all part of how things work here. Don't expect things to follow normal logic. I'd tell you to just-- work with video game logic instead, but by the way you're dressed, I doubt you're from a world with video games.

[Sorry, dude, but that's a very bard outfit you've got on.]

They're magic. Sort of. Most of the animals here are weirdly magic like this.