

In the series, multiple animals were able to conjure and use their own stands.

Some of them include:

  * Iggy the dog
  * A hawk
  * An orangutan
  * Coco Jumbo the turtle

**How were the animals able to get their stands?**

> Were they all pierced by the arrow at some point?

Or did they get them some other way? Is there extra backstory that was
explained somewhere else that I missed? (I've only watched the anime, I have
not read the books).


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How are animals able to get stands in the world of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure?


> _Approximately 50,000 years ago, a meteorite crash-landed on Earth around an
> underpopulated region of Cape YorkW, GreenlandW. In 1978, a mineral
> excavation team uncovered an unknown virus within the rocks of the
> surrounding area and determined that it had been lying dormant inside the
> meteorite that hit Earth long ago. Despite extensive research, government
> doctors were unable to determine the alien virus' purpose outside the total
> elimination of human life. Akin to the theory of evolution, it was
> discovered that certain people possessed a quality that would enable them to
> survive when exposed to the virus, additionally granting them supernatural
> abilities._ ~[JJBA Wiki](https://jojo.fandom.com/wiki/Bow_and_Arrow)

Stands are the result of the extraterrestrial virus and the host's
immunoresponse to it, which explains why Holly Kujo's stand was killing her
and which makes it entirely possible that animals such as Iggy, Pet Shop,
Forever, and Bug-Eaten in Part IV contracted the virus into their bloodstreams
through various means.

On the surface, rogue stands such as Silver Chariot Requiem and Notorious
B.I.G. in Part V, Stray Cat in Part IV and Anubis in part III might initially
seem to present a glaring hole in this theory, but the fact of the matter is
that viruses are microscopic life forms and the one in question is of alien
origin, which means its interaction with both organic and inorganic matter
after the incubation period is bound to have unpredictable results and allows
for a wide range of creative freedom on Araki's part.

To sum up it up nicely, "It's an alien virus, I ain't gotta explain S#!t." \-
Hirohiko Araki


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It seems that Stands are related to DNA. People can be born with them, like
Polnareff and Kakyoin, but the Stand Arrow also gives you Stands so it must've
changed your DNA code to "unlock" your Stand. The main reason I think it's
DNA-related is that Giorno cloned Coco Jumbo (the turtle in _Part 5_ ) using
some samples of the original, and the new turtle had the same Stand. The
animals were probably born with their Stands, but the bird and the orangutan
were probably Dio/Enya testing the arrow.

After reading another person's answer I remembered that the reason they stand
arrows gives people stands is because of an alien virus that lives on/in the
metal, this lines up with the rest of my theory because the way viruses work
(I may be wrong, this is all from what I remember from middle school) is by
sending instruction through RNA to a cell which then is processed and applied.
The instruction could easily be something like "change DNA to unlock stand
ability" but you could also be born with your stand already unlocked without
needing an alien virus to unlock it for you.


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