1. Use the skill directly on an animal or monster to receive information about the creature, as well as it's loyalty in case it's tame.
   
   
2. Animal lore as well as Animal Taming are checked every time you give a pet a command (with the exception of the 'guard me' command). Animal lore only counts 20% in this check, while taming is counted for 80%, so it IS possible to play a tamer without animal lore.
   
   
3. Animal lore increases the amount of HP restored per bandage when using veterinary. 61 animal lore is also required to cure a pet with a bandage.
   
   
4. With 80.1 veterinary and 80.1 animal lore, you can resurrect a bonded pet
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Benefits/Abilities

The Animal Lore skill will display the following data for any tamed creature:

• Numeric values for the skills: Wrestling, Tactics, Anatomy, Resist Spells, Poisoning, Evaluate Intelligence, Magery, and Meditation.
• Numeric values for Strength, Intelligence, and Dexterity, as well as the current and maximum values for Hits, Fatigue, and Mana.
• The creature's Armor Rating
• Any pack instincts the pet may have.
• The creature's preferred food that it will eat when tamed.
• The creature's loyalty rating.
• At 100 Animal Lore, you can get statistics on any tameable creature in game (while it's still wild).
• At 110 Animal Lore, you can get statistics on any creature in game.

Here's a list of the pet loyalty messages, from highest to lowest:

• Wonderfully happy
• Extremely happy
• Very happy
• Rather happy
• Happy
• Content
• Content, I suppose
• Unhappy
• Rather unhappy
• Extremely unhappy
• Confused

1. Active use of the skill: You can gain by using the skill on different creatures, however because of the anti macro code, this becomes pretty much impossible after 40-50.
   
   
2. Passive gain through taming: Whenever you talk to a pet that you're taming, the animal lore skill is checked, and there's a chance of it increasing. Since taming raises rather slowly, you can get 90+ lore by the time you GM taming just from passive gains.
   
   
3. Passive gains though veterinary: Take a frenzied ostard and a polar bear on a boat, and tell them to fight. (If you're in trammel you've to be guilded; Use "all guard me" before giving the attack command.) You can use other creatures, but these two work great because you only have to heal the polar bear. Use bandages on the bear until you gain 0.1 animal lore. Now stop the boat and lock veterinary. Keep applying bandages to see if you gain again, if not go 8 forward or backwards. You should gain 0.1 lore about every time you apply a bandage from now on, and it's not uncommon to gain 10 points before it stops. This is similar to the anatomy/healing trick.
   
   
4. With the release of Age of Shadows, a lot of dramatic changes have been made to the way and amount of damage delivered to and from players, animals, and monsters. After 4 days of experimentation, I found the best way to reach 100 skill or even get achieve the legendary skill level.
   
   First buy some vetenary skill from the animal tamers in town, and get a +6-+10 Veterinary bracelet/ring whatever. When you have this you should have a nice 30-40% range which is good enough. If you got GM vet just move on to the next section
   
   For people with 30% vet
   
   Get a boat, lock your vet, tame 2 cows in Delucia and put them on the boat . Cows are slow animals who deal out minimal damage to each.
   
   Now you have to be in a guild for this or in Felluca but I have noticed that the best gains are in trammel. Tell the cows to "all guard you". Have one attack the other. Tell them to follow you. This will keep you from losing health bars while you train [using a macro gets around the problem of health bars] . Use the 8x8 method. If you get an animal lore gain,stop the boat immediately (having the word "stop" queued and hitting the return button helps). Continue to heal the cow that gave you the gain making sure the other cow does not die.
   
   Usually you can gain 30-50% from one animal lore spot, these are also called “Magic spots” that work for all levels. It's thought that you only gain lore from the animal that gave you the gain, so if it dies the spot is gone. This method has been used by players in houses to gain anatomy real fast from what is considered a "magic monster".
   
   People with more veterinary > 30
   
   Well, the problem with having a lot of vetenary is that you heal your animals faster then having it low, meaning that you will keep them at too high health. At this point you want to use a goat and a cow. Goats are faster then cows and can kill cows pretty damn fast if you don’t pay attention. Just follow the same healing methods as posted above.
   
   -Author Unknown.
   

• When you lore your pets, a lot of "spam" appears over your char. Single left click your avatar once (or twice if you don't have a guild title) to scroll it off the screen.