I must disagree with you Yume.
The Aukira is most certainly built like a chocobo, except for the tail and ears. If you look very closly at an Aukira you'll sure recognise the chocobo influence in them. Well, I do anyway, or is that just my perspective of the creatu? Anywho, I would be pretty awesome to see Aukiras run in hamster wheels to power up boats like in Final Fantasy X, no?