Minions are just criatures that evolutioned to look like humans because they needed to survive, most of them cant talk but they feel emotions, due to their innocent nature they are easy to manipulate, their origin is speculated to be from the Paleozoic era where they used to be blue sea creatures with bright colors, now they are commonly friendly and sociable and learned alot from humans, minions can be oftenly found on forests or caves and in groups, thats the reason why they have makeup variations, that helps them to identify each other, adoptable ones can be seen on adoption centers that are specialized on taking care of minions, minions can also work as pets since they can follow orders and do tasks as long as those are easy, there are also kindergartens for minions where they can learn basic things like how to write and talk, also how to understand words.