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==Fictional character biography==
Dr. Frederick Animus was a geneticist employed by a university conducting medical research. Instead, he concentrated on research of mutation. When he falsified reports on the effectiveness of medication, several people died. The university investigated him, fired him, and he was sent to jail for his negligence.
Taking the name Ani-Mator, he was employed as a geneticist by [[Cameron Hodge]]'s organization The Right to research a means of stopping the process that creates [[Mutant (Marvel Comics)|mutants]]. When the Right set him up on a deserted island in the North Atlantic, which he called Paradise, Dr. Animus instead created a race of "Ani-Mates" through gene slicing and selective breeding, which combined the characteristics of human beings and other animals, intending for them to be a slave race for humanity.<ref name="NewMut60"></ref>
One of the Ani-Mates, [[Bird-Brain (Marvel Comics)|Bird-Brain]], escaped the Paradise island and ultimately befriends the [[New Mutants]]. The New Mutants returned to the island with Bird-Brain to stop the mad scientist's experiments.<ref>''New Mutants'' vol. 1 #59</ref> They succeeded in defeating Animus' creations, but right afterwards they were captured by Hodge and agents of [[The Right (comics)|The Right]], who had become suspicious of the doctor's activities. Bird-Brain subsequently rallied the surviving Ani-Mates to help rescue his human friends.<ref name="NewMut60"></ref>
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