Why were Nagato's summons so different?

[Darth Uchiha]

Seriously, they don't even look like real animals, while all the others did, why is that, and, better yet, what were they?

 

[Itachi of the Uchiha clan]

dat rinnegan

 

[Flakez]

Because they were Rinnegan summons.

 

[Itachi of the Uchiha clan]

Because they were Rinnegan summons.

too bad sasuke and madara didn't use animal path.

 

[dark legion]

nothing looks normal in NarutoVerse. not even shino's bugs .

 

[Itachi of the Uchiha clan]

it's a rinnegan ability, if you have the animal path you can summon them.

 

[Neji Hyūga2]

I suppose the rinnegan comes with special summons

 

[90sKids98]

Well the way his summons looked its as if he killed them, implated chakra rods into them, and then controlled them as puppets like with the 6 Paths. Just this time its Summons

 

[Pirate King]

Maybe oro experimented on his summons?

 

[VongolaX]

Only two people were listed as animal path summonings..

My guess is that those animals that were picked, Nagato found them and attached a black rod to them making them part of his summoning contract like the six paths of pain.