Deserialises multiple json to there perspective objects

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Hi have a scenario where i'm getting back json from an API that is using JsonAPI. the json returned can be of two formats as shown below. (simplified for this example)

{  
      "attributes":{ 
    	"AnimalType":"Lion",	  
    	 "Name":"lio",
    	 "Eats":"Meat"
      }
    }

and

{  
       "attributes":{ 
    	"AnimalType":"Chicken",
    	 "Name":"Henry",
    	 "HasFeathers":true
      }
    }

The class that represent the different Json looks like this

<pre lang="c#">public abstract class Animal
        {
            public virtual string AnimalType{ get; set; }
        }
    	
    	
    public class Lion : Animal
        {
            public override string AnimalType{ get; set; }
    		public string Eats { get; set; }
            public string Name{ get; set; }
        }
    
    public class Chicken : Animal
        {
            public override string AnimalType{ get; set; }
    		public bool HasFeathers { get; set; }
            public string Name{ get; set; }
        }

Ho do i go about Deserialize each json to is correct Object without using switch or if statements ?

What I have tried:

Tried googling around for different solutions for this specific issue but had no luck