Fantastic Creatures
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African Green Gold Winged Dragon by Ghirin
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African Green Gold-Winged Dragon by Ghirin
The gold-wing dragons comprise a family of dragons with 2 main characteristics: large gold-colored wings and a metamorphic life cycle.
The adults are draconic in form and have the ability to fly while the young are wingless and resemble gray monitor lizards.
The African green gold-winged dragon is one of the most social dragons, living in large family groups. Its green body scales match its rainforest habitat.
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Gryphon by Dragon
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The gryphon is a cross between a lion and an eagle.
The gryphon can now live in your zoo!
This is my first finished animal, I hope you like it!
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Savannah Gold Winged Dragon by Ghirin
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Savannah Gold-Wing Dragon by Ghirin
The gold-wing dragons comprise a family of dragons with 2 main characteristics: large gold-colored wings and a metamorphic life cycle.
The adults are draconic in form and have the ability to fly while the young are wingless and resemble gray monitor lizards.
The savannah gold-wing has a body color of rich, glistening brown and is native to the tropical grasslands of eastern and southern Africa. It lives in small family groups
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Tundra Gold Wing Dragon by Ghirin
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Tundra Gold-Wing Dragon by Ghirin
The gold-wing dragons comprise a family of dragons with 2 main characteristics: large gold-colored wings and a metamorphic life cycle.
The adults are draconic in form and have the ability to fly while the young are wingless and resemble gray monitor lizards.
The tundra gold-wing dragon is native to the cold lands of the arctic and is the only member of the of the gold-wing family found in both the Old and New Worlds. It lives in small family groups.
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Pern Dragons by Dragon Riders
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Inspired by the Dragonriders series by Anne McCaffrey, this download contains three ztd files: Gold Dragon (with Bronze male and brown young), Green Dragon (with Blue male and blue-green young) and Ruth, the White Dragon.
The Dragons of Pern
Starting with the planet's fire lizards, the Pernese Dragon was genetically engineered to be large enough to carry a person on its back. This was so that they could fly and burn "thread", spores from the erratic Red Star, from the skies before it reached the earth and destroyed everything it touched. These dragons form a lifelong telepathic bond with one person, thenceforth their rider, at the moment they hatch.
There are five colors of dragons on Pern. Gold queen, bronze male, brown male, green female and blue male.
Pern Gold (and Bronze and Brown) Dragon
The golden queen is the dominant ruler of the species. She only mates with the dragon that is clever or quick enough to catch her during the mating flight. Usually, only the bronze, largest of the males, meets these requirements. There was one case of a brown that might have been large and strong enough to last through the exhausting flight, but the queen tragically died before the flight could take place.
Pern Green (and Blue) Dragon
The Green females are normally unable to reproduce, as the chewing of firestone - needed in order to produce the flame they use to scorch thread - renders them infertile. Since the final passing of the Red Star, however, the greens that do not chew firestone have started producing small clutches. Greens are only able to produce the "lesser" green, blue and brown dragons - they cannot produce bronzes or golds.
Pern White Dragon, Ruth
In all of Pernese history, only one white dragon has ever been produced - Ruth, the White Dragon. Ruth is special in many ways, not the least of which is his unusual coloration. In the certain lighting, one can see that Ruth actually sparkles with all of the dragons' colors.
Ruth was hatched under unusual circumstances. All dragons are born by shattering their shells from the inside. In Ruth's case, however, his shell was tough and thick, and the little dragon was unable to break free on his own. Unable to stand watching the little egg and the fruitless struggles of it's inhabitant, a future Lord Holder jumped to the hatching grounds and beat the egg to crack the shell, then cut the sac inside to free the little dragon. Impression between the two was immediate. This was the first time that a Lord Holder had ever impressed, and a great blow to Jaxom's guardian, Lytol.
While Ruth is the most intelligent - and most unique - dragon Pern has ever known, he is also "stunted". Never having fully matured, Ruth is unable to reproduce.
Pernese Dragons are carnivorous, preferring nice fat wherries or herdbeasts, but will take any meat offered to them.
*Original Red Dragon graphics by Lehner. Thank you very much for allowing us to use your graphics, Lehner!
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AOFE Dragon by Particle
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This is the dragon that was promised! :) This dragon came from the original AOFE mod (I guess). I found the stand, walk, attack, and death animations, and made this dragon with them. Unfortunately, there are no flying animations, because for some reason it was a ground unit.
This is my first animal so he will probably get updated. But for now it seems to work ok so try it out and let me know what you think.
Updated: I was lucky to have Jay's advice on my first animal. Thank you to Jay for your help. Jay is the master!
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Sonoran Azure Dragon By Ghirin
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Sonoran Azure Dragon By Ghirin
The Sonoran Azure is a large blue dragon from the southwestern region of North America. Despite their great size, these dragons are rarely seen by humans.
These dragons are powerful and require strong DD fences.
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Wonderland Animals by Genkicoll
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Three Alice in Wonderland-themed animals for your fanciful zoos. All three are included separately, as well as combined. If you use the combined ztd, you will not need the separate ztds.
The White Rabbit
Down the rabbit hole you go to the magical Wonderland, the place the White Rabbit calls home. The White Rabbit is know to be a messenger and a herald at the Court of the King and Queen of Hearts. He seems to have a time management problem, or maybe he's just in need of a new watch. If you're lucky enough to run into the White Rabbit, he'll more then likely be running off in a hurry to one of his many engagements declaring, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no! I'm overdue! I'm really in a stew! No time to say goodbye...hello! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!!"
Original rabbit graphics by African_Raptor. Thanks, AR!
Cheshire Cat
The Cheshire Cat lives in the fern-filled forests of Wonderland, a land where everyone, it purports, is mad. Its conversations are certainly maddening, raising philosophical points as often as it spouts nonsense. It constantly grins and can disappear and reappear whenever it feels like it, sometimes even disappearing and leaving its grin behind.
The Caterpillar
The Caterpillar, eccentric resident of Wonderland, tends to speak in short, rather rude sentences, or ask difficult questions. The Caterpillar tells Alice how to grow and shrink using the mushroom upon which he is sitting.
Original "desert worm" graphic by African Raptor. Thank you, AR!
The Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar are fully compatible.
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Carpathian Vampire by Genkicoll
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These shape-shifting vampires live in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains.
They are rarely seen in nature since most humans fear them and would hunt them mercilessly if their presence was known. This persecution by humans is unfounded, for though the Carpathian Vampires are true carnivores, they never hunt humankind.
The vampire young stay almost entirely in their bat form, as they can be both more independent and safer from would-be attackers such as wolves, bears and humans.
Programmed to like exhibit-neutral items.
Many thanks to Jane for providing the original gif animations.
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Moby Dick by Ghirin
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Moby Dick was a character from the novel by Herman Melville. In the book, Captain Ahab, who lost a leg to the great white whale, searches the seas for a rematch with Moby Dick.
*Inspired by the Zoo Tycoon Brains Trust at the Zoo Tek Forums
Created by Ghirin 2004
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Articule Desert Worm by African Raptor
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The Desert Worm is a creature found in desert oases. They have huge mouths with which they swallow bugs, and even small mammals, whole. They are believed to reach as long as 6 m. The Desert Worm is the largest worm in existence.
Many Worms are reclusive and generally peaceful. Some, however, seem bloodthirsty; they attack travelers without provocation. Desert Worms are solitary creatures, only gathering to mate.
Desert Worms are found only in the desert regions of countries. Worm sightings tend to be rare, because the beasts themselves are hard to find. However, some tribal societies pride themselves on hunting the creatures. Ethnologists report that some tribes require young warriors to track and hunt a worm as a passage to adulthood.
Desert Worms are regarded as having limited intelligence, even by animal standards.
UPDATED July 28, 2008 to fix LCID error, which can cause some people's games to crash.
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Giant Brown Recluse Spider by Genkicoll
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The Giant Brown Recluse Spider, scientifically named Loxosceles reclusa, live in large colonies. As opposed to most spiders who have 8 eyes, the brown recluse has 6 eyes arranged in pairs - one pair in front and a pair on either side.
These enormous cousins of "fiddleback" spiders feed mostly on creatures that have passed on naturally, scavenging at night. They prefer seclusion, and often retreat to dark places during the day.
Does not require a shelter, but will be happy with the rock cave if you decide you want it in the exhibit.
This spider is compatible with Jane's Autumn Alm, the foliage items in Catfish's Halloween Pack and all of the foliage in Catfish's Autumn foliage pack. Also shown in the screenshot are some items from Brandi's Toadstool Forest Pack.
Many thanks to those who helped test this, and to Jay for his patience.
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Spyro The Dragon by GamerDeath
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Spyro The Dragon by GamerDeath
Spyro is my first post so please don't laugh. Thank You.
Before the game begins, the five Dragon families lived in their five Dragon Worlds in harmony. Their lives were happy and peaceful until the day a Gnorc broke the rules; Gnasty Gnorc was an unpleasant creature that the Dragons were never too fond of and in return. Gnasty resented the happy Dragon families. More than anything, he detested their beautiful, shiny jewels, which were not only nice to look at, but showed him reflections of his own ugly face every time he did so. Gnasty became such a problem that he was banished to the Dragon junkyard, the world that the Dragons weren’t too fond of but they didn’t see how well it would suit Gnasty. It suited Gnasty just fine. He renamed it Gnasty’s World as soon as he got there and overtook Gnorc Cove and Twilight Harbour. He also built his home there, as well as an industrial settlement, which he would later keep all of the stolen treasure. Gnasty began to fool around with magic spells there and after a while, he hit on the two he wanted: a giant spell to trap all Dragons in crystal as well as a potion to animate the radiant gems and turn them into an army of Gnorc soldiers and Trolls.
Spyro the dragon video game hero. My first download.
The Legend of Spyro
In the new continuity, Spyro's personality differs greatly from his past outings. Spyro is young and compassionate towards others and he is always willing to help them no matter what happens. Spyro doesn't ask for rewards and is just happy to be a big help to those in danger. He even saves Cynder from being destroyed when the area he fought her in was collapsing.
Updated September 4, 2022 by Jay to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines, to position individual frames of the animations so that they do not jump around, to make the frame counts match for the adult stand animation so that the animal does not sometimes disappear while rotating the zoo, to make the animal no longer be allowed on water since the animal would get stuck on water and since it does not have swimming, flying, or gliding animations, to make the preferred object tooltip appear for the females and young, to not allow the young to climb fences since the animations for the young are that of ZT's American Bison, to not have the animal dislike itself, to have adults always use animations that exist in the ztd, to allow dust clouds to occur when the animal catches prey, to correct sounds playing at various times, to make the purchase menu name use the same name as the ztd, and to change typos in the animal info.
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Fire Horse by Genkicoll
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The Fire Horse lives on rocky plains near volcanoes. They love the heat and anything fiery, though they still need a source of water nearby.
These creatures like to live in herds, and are happy to share their living space with both Volcanic Unicorns and Pyro Zebras (by Sundance). Fire Horses will enjoy having volcanoes, tar pits, fires and torches in their exhibit.
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Mythic Salamander by Ghirin
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The salamander is a creature known in ancient times and was mentioned by Pliny the Elder is his book, Historia Naturalis (A.D. 77).
From the Aberdeen Bestiary:
“The salamander is so called because it is proof against fire. Of all poisonous creatures, it has the strongest poison. Other poisonous creatures kill one at a time; it can kill several things at the same time. For if it has crawled into a tree, it poisons all the apples and kills those who eat them. In addition, if it falls into a well, the strength of its poison kills those who drink the water. It resists fire and alone among creatures can put fires out. For it can exist in the midst of flames without pain and without being consumed by them, not only because it does not burn but because it puts the fire out.”
References:
Giants, Monsters and Dragons. Rose, 2000.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/translat/69v.hti
*Inspired by the Zoo Tycoon Brains Trust (http://www.geocities.com/professorpaul1/home.html)
Created by Ghirin 2004
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Star Wars Walkers by Enemy Post
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This is a pack of walker "animals" from the Star Wars movies.
This pack includes the Imperial AT-AT and AT-ST, and the Republic AT-TE.
Thanks to the enormous amounts of help and resources I got from the Star Wars, Zoo Tycoon, and Age of Empires communities. In particular, thanks to Jay for major assistance with bugfixes and tweaks and Sa-Matra.net for the sound effects.
Sprites taken from Star Wars:Galactic Battlegrounds.
Feel free to reupload, copy, or do whatever else you like with this.
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Mummy Creature by Genkicoll
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The Mummy is commonly found in the tombs of Egypt, but these "captive" mummies prefer a forested exhibit.
These mummies have been around for quite a long time, and they have a tendency to lose their heads! They enjoy sharing their exhibit with both the loopy black bats and spooky ghosts by Genki.
Many thanks to Jane for providing the original .gif animations.
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Water Spirit by Genkicoll
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Water Spirits reside in the waters of the world, from oceans to lakes to rivers.
They are mischievous creatures who enjoy playing tricks on the unwary. While they never do any real harm, the pranks they play have caused many a sailor to curse the misfortune of having come across the spirits.
These spirits do not breed the way flesh and blood creatures do, but they will "call out" to others to come and join them now and then, bringing new spirits to play with them. They may, likewise, get bored and leave if there is not enough to occupy them, so if you decide you no longer want them in your zoo, all you have to do is ask them to leave... or make them a better offer!
Configured to like both neutral-habitat and bad-habitat items, these spirits will love almost anything you decide to throw in their exhibit.
Many thanks to Jane for the original .gifs.
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Skull Isle Black Widow by Genkicoll
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Skull Island Black Widows live on Skull Island, which can be found off the coast of Sumatra. The foreboding name of the isle derives from the distinctive rocky knoll at the center of the island, which is shaped like a human skull.
This tropical island is home to many bizarre creatures, as well as those thought to be extinct by the rest of the world. In the wild of its homeland, the Skull Island black widow usually feeds on dinosaur young and unwary birds that get caught in its web. Extremely poisonous, one bite is enough to do serious damage, even to a full-grown dinosaur.
Like the domestic black widows we are familiar with, the male of the species is much smaller than the female, and lacking the distinctive red markings of the female. In contrast, however, the marking of the female is not limited to a red hourglass on the underside of her abdomen, it instead circles the entire abdomen.
These enormous arachnids will escape if not carefully monitored, so for the safety of your guests, be sure to use a sturdy fence!
Many thanks to Professor Paul for the idea ^__^
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Spooky Ghost by Genkicoll
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These spooky ghosts are more cute than spooky. Ghosts can be found all over the world, but these friendly spirits prefer a forest setting.
While most ghosts we hear about haunt, these simply are curious about human folk and animals, and have agreed to be "housed" in a zoo setting. They enjoy peoples' reactions to them, but sometimes like to be alone, hence the need for a shelter of some sort. Their favorite residence would be a cave or burrow, but they will like most shelters. They are absolutely fine with having almost anything added to their exhibits, so experiment! They're happy to watch you try!
As they are disembodied spirits, they do not multiply, so there are no ghost young. Likewise they will not die, but you can always ask them to leave... they might even comply!
Programmed to like both exhibit-neutral items and bad-habitat items such as buildings and statues.
Fully compatible with the Loopy Black Bat and the Mummy by Genkicoll.
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European Unicorn by Ghirin
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European Unicorn by Ghirin
The unicorn's name comes from two Latin words, and means "one horn." Unicorns today are extremely rare in the wild.
Historically, unicorns have been found throughout the world, with sub-species existing in China, Tibet, Japan, India, Europe and the Middle East.
The unicorn has a wide range of appearances, depending on the subspecies. For example, the Chinese unicorn is shaped like a large stag, having a mane, cloven hooves, and multi-colored skin. This variant has a musical, bell-like call. The Indian unicorn is large and white, resembling a wild ass, with a red head and dark blue eyes. Julius Caesar described the European unicorn as resembling a deer, while later accounts from the Middle Ages depicted the unicorn as more of a goat-like creature, with a tail similar to that of a lion. The unicorns most familiar to modern eyes are descendants of the European unicorn, and are larger, with white horse-like bodies.
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Agropelter by Ghirin
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Agropelter
Author: Ghirin
The agropelter is an aggressive, carnivorous hominid said to be native to the Great lakes region of North America. Lumberjacks described this creature as being about 1 meter tall and ape-like. It is very dangerous and kills its prey by dropping heavy objects (such as hunks of wood) on it.
Created by Ghirin 2005
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Beast of Bodmin by G2K
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The plaque for this animal is supposidly a picture of the beast of bodmin. Made by G2K many thanx to Ghirin
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Crescent Lake Monster by Ghirin
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Crescent Lake monsters ("Cressie") are large, eel-like animals that dwell in the depths of Cresent Lake, Newfoundland in Canada. The Native Americans had legends about a fierce creature that lived in the lake. In recent times, divers have reported being attacked by large eels during search missions.
Created by Ghirin 2005
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Champ by Moondawg
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Champ is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain. Authorities regard Champ as legend. The state government of Vermont has put Champ on its Endangered Species List.
Champ or Champy, is the name given to a reputed lake monster living in Lake Champlain, a natural freshwater lake in North America, partially situated across the US-Canada border in the Canadian province of Quebec. While there is no scientific evidence for the cryptid's existence, there have been over 300 reported sightings. The legend of the monster is considered a draw for tourism in the Burlington, Vermont area.
Like the Loch Ness Monster, some authorities regard Champ as legend; others believe it is possible such a creature does live deep in the lake, possibly a relative of the plesiosaur, an extinct group of aquatic reptiles.
Lake Champlain is a 125-mile (201 km)-long body of fresh water that is shared by New York and Vermont and just a few miles into Quebec, Canada.
The Champ legend is unquestioned by many in the area and has become a revenue-generating attraction. For example, the village of Port Henry, New York, has erected a giant model of Champ and holds "Champ Day" on the first Saturday of every August.
As the mascot of Vermont's lone Minor League Baseball affiliate, the Vermont Lake Monsters, Champ became more prominent after the team was renamed from the Vermont Expos to the Vermont Lake Monsters. Champ has been the primary attraction of the New York - Penn League affiliate since their inception. Several nearby establishments, including a car wash, use "Champ" as a logo.
Two Native American tribes living in the area near Lake Champlain, the Iroquois and the Abenaki, had legends about such a creature. The Abenaki called the creature "Tatoskok".
An account of a creature in Lake Champlain was ostensibly given in 1609 by French explorer Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Québec and the lake's namesake, who is supposed to have spotted the creature as he was fighting the Iroquois on the bank of the lake.[1] However, in actuality no such sighting was recorded, and it has since been traced back to a 1970 article.
* Inspired by the Zoo Tek Brains Trust
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