Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20131004004930/@comment-16502426-20131004024253

Zolnir wrote: So the question is: Is there mention that a Faunu has any other abilities except those stated above? Yes. So far only one thing, but they very explicitly said that many Faunus have nearly perfect vision in the dark. The "turning point" of the war was apparrently a battle in which the outnumbered Faunus defeated the Humans after the Human general was stupid enough to try an ambush attack in the middle of the night.

There are also several implications that the Faunus are definitely a separate species, rather than just mutated humans.