To answer seriously to your not serious, it would come down to tagging, at a hard rules level, and intelligence at an in-world level.
If they have the beast tag, then they have the best tag, and are appropriate. No playable races do - they're all 'humanoid'
In the world space, animal intelligence generally caps at 3 unless it's a magical beast of some sort, and sentient creatures all generally punch well above that.
