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And a last detail about this: I found by mistake, ofc that you can add frames to almost every graphic in ZT as long as it has an .ani file attached. So, this animal has an animated menu icon! I thought ZT would not support it, but it worked. However, any issue that you may notice, please feel free to notify!

 

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[(Designer)Zarawatto]

On 1/17/2026 at 5:58 PM, Zarawatto said:

FILE TEMPORARILY REMOVED DUE A SUDDEN MINOR BUG FIX... IT WILL BE BACK IN A FEW MINUTES

 

I swear it was less than half an hour, but in those minutes, my internet service went down and didn't recover until today morning... Anyways, the file is back again for anyone who wanna give it a try:

 

File removed Jan 20th 2026. Link to get.

 

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

I'm working on some species of animals that went extinct due to human actions in recent times... I'm considering five species, but the first two are already finished. Feel free to take a look at them and give a try! Report any issue you find

 

Instead of the usual facts and biology descriptions, the plaque contains a short tale I wrote to depict how these species were wipped out from existence... I expect them not to be too dark, just real enough.

 

 King Island emu. The last captive specimens died in 1822 in Jardin des Plantes, Paris.

 

~~ King's Last Heir ~~

 

Patience is not a gift, but a skill that has to be developed well in the roughest environments. Patience to learn how to find the hideout of the drops after the rain, patience to fold yourself out of the wind strikes. Patience to learn how to listen. I was a great listener. King Island shaped me that way.

 

We needed patience since our legs were pretty short. There was no need to flow across endless plains. I used to listen the wind scoured grass and the whispers of the scrub from my homeland, until the trees started yelling sharp screams when falling down with no storms and the island eventually grew louder, harsher, less like a place that was able to held you with it and more like it was pushing you back instead. It suddenly got completely reformed without asking if we could bent with it.

 

The ground was not able to offer us nests anymore, as the hooves crushed completely lacking care of their step and the chicks weren't returning from the edge of the woods. The bigger ones were never aware what being afraid of anything was until that time. That's the reason why we were easy to get caught when they started looking at us like a mistake that needed to be corrected.

 

I was a great listener. I noticed how, one by one, the voices of my kind thinned and eventually vanished.

The last time I met another like me, we were standing far apart, pretending not to notice how quiet it had become. No answering calls, no rustle of feet through the grass, just the echoes of the axes slicing the wind until hitting the logs. After that, I walked alone. I reached every corner of the island, expecting it to remember and bring us back into existence. However, my shadow would not split in two just for a miracle.

 

When I got found, the island was no more speaking my language. They seemed to be pleased, probably amazed. "There is another one!" they said. "Let's take it with the others!". In that moment, I almost lost all hope to find another like me, I was tired. Not wounded at all, just done. They toke me to met my kind again. I was a great listener, but my kind was now just quiet. As the island language is not the mine anymore, I never understood the meaning of the word "collection".

 

~

 

Spoiler

 

 

 Steller's sea cow lived in the Bering Sea until 1768.

 

~~ The Archipielago that bled off ~~

 

Odd to find how green is the water today. If you asked me yesterday if it would be this intensely colorful, I'd say that was never going to happen. Nevertheless, we're here. Silent as usual, chilling as usual, serene as usual, but below the surface, the leaves of the kelp forest are making fun of us in an endless wobble that gets lost in the depths of the ocean, down where sun barely reached in the clearest summer ever.

 

In past days, the islands toke the main component of the landscape, blocking our view of the kelp forest below them. They were the ropes or anchors that kept the land in place, and we came from afar alongside the sunrise, just to find our feast, ready to keep us with it until the sun again was getting tired of dancing in the sky and falling again into the horizon, constraining us to follow it to the south if we weren't willing to get lost into the endless night.

 

Today, instead of nourishment, this green moorland, dazzling, ominously gorgeous is our recipiency. However, all of this starvation that ravens our flock it is not the kelp forest's fault at all. They didn't swallow the islands. That wrath that arises from the horizon with infernal blizzards and the north's breath never sank the Archipielago that selflessly granted us plenty of feeding source and shelter for more than five thousand trips of the sun. 

 

One day, the islands went under a hideous transformation. They came out of the water in parts and aberrated into beasts with multiple heads with twice times arms. They became louder, with a noisy yell every time they managed to succesfully beat the surface. But most of all, they became faster. One by one, all the islands swam away from sight, leaving behind a trace made by the leftovers of its previous life. Each day, there were less islands and eventually, as fast as a wingbeat, we found almost no place for us to take a rest of the migration and even less of its delicacies that grew, awaiting for our pleasure.

 

I have this theory: The islands got tired of us. That's why the kelp is gloating on our wretchedness. I can distinguish the whispers and the gossip comming throughout the waves of the sea. They are not here anymore and are not wishing to return. Our promised land is no more than a legend. What are we going to say to our offspring? Actually, how far am I supposed to fly today?

 

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Spoiler

 

 

 

Have a nice download!

 

Files deleted Feb 24th 2026. Link to newest versions here!

 

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[Fern]

I had to zip them to get them to Jay so the zip name is irrelevant.

From Jay: Here are the results from the checkers. There are no errors, but there are warnings that look like should be fixed. For the emu, some are because of a "b," incorrectly in the [BehaviorSet\bTense] section. The other things should be more obvious on how to change. Even though there are warnings, overall the results look good.

fernDownloadsZWEmuNSeaCow.zip: ZwKingEmuV1.ztd
* Efficiency: animals/57a0d033/icostric/icostric.pal not used, so not needed.
* Efficiency: animals/57a0d033/lsmostri/lsmostri.pal not used, so not needed.
* Efficiency: animals/57a0d033/plostric/plostric.pal not used, so not needed.

Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):

57A0D033.uca date: Sun Feb 01 01:53:00 2026
*** Warning: f= has b, but there is no BehaviorSet\b].
*** Warning: f= has 10, but there is no BehaviorSet\10].
*** Warning: f= has 30, but there is no BehaviorSet\30].
*** Warning: f= has 15, but there is no BehaviorSet\15].
*** Warning: f= has Baby1, but there is no BehaviorSet\Baby1].
*** Warning: Action stand is in BehaviorSet, but is not in Animations.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.

Animal Type: 57A0D033

King Island emu

~~ King's Last Heir ~~

Patience is not a gift, but a skill that has to be developed well in the
roughest environments. Patience to learn how to find the hideout of the drops
after the rain, patience to fold yourself out of the wind strikes. Patience to
learn how to listen. I was a great listener. King Island shaped me that way.
    (plus 7 other paragraphs)

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Savannah; Location: Australia
Cost: 2100; Crowd number: 30
ZT Family: Bird; ZT Genus: Ostrich
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 99

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
 Acacia Caffra Tree, Thorn Acacia Tree, Eucalyptus Tree, Hard Quandong Tree
 Red Gum Tree, Thorn Bush, Yellow Fever Tree, Baobab Tree, Umbrella Thorn Tree
 Tall Grass, Water Lily, Water Reed, Grass Tree, Broadleaf Bush, Khejri Tree
 Bald Cypress Tree (DD), Horsetail (DD), Monkey Puzzle Tree (DD)
 Sigillaria Tree (DD), Sea Anemone (MM), Barnacles (MM), Beach Grass (MM)
 Brittle Sea Star (MM), Clam Bed (MM), Orange Cup Coral (MM)
 Divercate Tree Coral (MM), Feather Duster Worm (MM), Fire Coral (MM)
 Kelp (MM), Sea Lettuce (MM), Red Gorgonian (MM), Sargassum (MM)
 Sand Dollar (MM), Sea Cucumber (MM), Sea Star (MM), Seaweed (MM)
 Sea Grass (MM), Sea Sponge (MM), Stove Pipe Sponge (MM), Tube Worm (MM)
 Purple Sea Urchin (MM), Senegal Date Palm (ES)

Rocks:
 Medium Savannah Rock (DD), Medium Aquatic Rock (DD)
 Small Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Medium Coral Formation (MM)
 Large Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Medium Ocean Floor Rock (MM)
 Large Coral Formation (MM), Iceberg (MM), Isle Rock (MM), Termite Mound (ES)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-12 with 10 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 20 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 20 grid squares):
 9 Savannah Grass, 3 Grass, 3 Sand, 5 Salt Water

Foliage (for exhibit with 20 grid squares):
 2 grid squares should contain foliage.
 Foliage that would give the most happiness: Beach Grass (MM)
 Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
 if each of the 2 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 20 grid squares):
 5 Small Ocean Floor Rock (MM), which is its most liked rock

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fernDownloadsZWEmuNSeaCow.zip: ZwSeaCowV1.ztd

Results From Configuration Checking (2022-10-29 checker version):

FAE4203D.uca date: Sun Feb 08 18:58:58 2026
*** Warning: Action 2_submerged_sick is in BehaviorSet, but is not in Animations.
*** Warning: cUnderwater or cSurface not 0, but no 'surfidle=' action setting.
*** Warning: cUnderwater not 0 + cSurface=0, but no 'subidle=' action setting.
* Efficiency: Line pair with 2nd being 'v=0' not needed in cCompatibleTerrain.

Animal Type: FAE4203D

Steller's sea cow

~~ The Archipielago that bled off ~~

Odd to find how green is the water today. If you asked me yesterday if it
would be this intensely colorful, I'd say that was never going to happen.
Nevertheless, we're here. Silent as usual, chilling as usual, serene as usual,
but below the surface, the leaves of the kelp forest are making fun of us in
an endless wobble that gets lost in the depths of the ocean, down where sun
barely reached in the clearest summer ever.
    (plus 6 other paragraphs)

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Aquatic; Location: Arctic Ocean
Cost: 7500; Crowd number: 35
ZT Family: Sirenia; ZT Genus: West Indian Manatee
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 99
Needs Marine Specialist.
Animal can swim in tanks with minimum depth of 4 levels and must stay in tanks.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (12) is not 0 to 5.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
 Ulmo Tree, Mangrove Tree, Elephant Ear Tree, Foxtail Palm Tree
 Llala Palm Tree, Rainforest Bush, Rainforest Fern, Orchid Tree, Water Lily
 Water Reed, Kapok Tree, Thouarsus Cycad Tree (DD), Bald Cypress Tree (DD)
 Fern Bush (DD), Horsetail (DD), Leptocycas Tree (DD), Williamsonia Tree (DD)
 Sea Anemone (MM), Barnacles (MM), Beach Grass (MM), Brittle Sea Star (MM)
 Clam Bed (MM), Orange Cup Coral (MM), Divercate Tree Coral (MM)
 Feather Duster Worm (MM), Fire Coral (MM), Kelp (MM), Sea Lettuce (MM)
 Red Gorgonian (MM), Sargassum (MM), Sand Dollar (MM), Sea Cucumber (MM)
 Sea Star (MM), Seaweed (MM), Sea Grass (MM), Sea Sponge (MM)
 Stove Pipe Sponge (MM), Tube Worm (MM), Purple Sea Urchin (MM)
 Fallen Rainforest Tree (ES), Rainforest Stump (ES), Rafflesia (ES)
 Giant Ficus Tree (ES), Durian Tree (ES)

Rocks:
 Stone Ruins, Rainforest Rock Formation, Medium Aquatic Rock (DD)
 Small Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Medium Coral Formation (MM)
 Large Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Medium Ocean Floor Rock (MM)
 Large Coral Formation (MM), Iceberg (MM), Isle Rock (MM)
 Mossy Rainforest Rock (ES), Limestone Rock (ES)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-6 with 50 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 100 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 100 grid squares):
 100 Salt Water

Tank Foliage (for exhibit with 100 grid squares):
 20 grid squares should contain foliage.
 Foliage that would give the most happiness: Water Lily
 Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
 if each of the 20 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 100 grid squares):
 48 Small Ocean Floor Rock (MM), which is its most liked rock

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

Thanks for your feedback Fern! Odd... I remember running the checker by myself and none of these messages showed up... Guess that was because I made several "last minute changes"... I'm fixing them for the final versions which I'm gathering into the whole final pack

[(Designer)Zarawatto]

I'm not working in the whole species pack yet. I'm having some new projects on my writting, so I'm just updating the versions with the fixes that needed to be done.

 

Get the newest version of King Island Emu and Stellet's sea cow here!

 

I'm not quitting this pack, but I'm taking a break until finishing my other stuff... Stay tuned!