Building Jeep Vehicle Tours
You can build Jeep vehicle tours through your exhibits for an up-close-and-personal view of animals in their natural environments! Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species introduced the Jeep Wrangler and the Jeep Commander, and now Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure adds the new Jeep Liberty, in your choice of paint jobs: sleek silver or Masai giraffe!
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Whats New at the Zoo?

lets you experience one of the richest wildlife continents in the world, with 20 new African animals, such as the carnivorous secretary bird, the honey-eating ratel, and the colorful mandrill. And thats not all! You can also build exciting Jeep vehicle tours to drive to (or through) your spacious exhibits on the African savannah. Youll notice new predator, pack, and herd behaviors. There are also new maps based on legendary African locations, new challenges, and a bunch of new desert-themed buildings and scenery. For more about all of the new Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure animals and objects, press F1 while youre playing the game.
Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure

Installing

First, make sure Zoo Tycoon 2 is installed on your PC. Then, you can install Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure. Just insert the Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure disc into your CD-ROM drive, and then follow the instructions that appear on the screen. What if nothing happens when you insert the disc? Just open the Readme file on the CD and follow the installation instructions.

Technical Support

o T build a Jeep vehicle tour, click the Transportation tab on the Construction panel. Place a Jeep vehicle station on the map, and then build a road through the tour area. You can place multiple stations on the tour, but the road must start o and end at the same station. T connect the first and last sections of road, click near the station. When the tour route forms a closed loop, the station opens for business. Then click the station to buy Jeep vehicles.
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Making Your Animals Happy

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World Wildlife Fund, the global conservation organization, seeks to create a world where people live in harmony with nature. Responsibly manage d zoos can play a key role in balancing human needs with the preservation of wildlife and wildlife habitat. With Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure, youre helping spread the word to your zoo guests about the importance of conservation, biodiversity, and habitat protection for animals and indigenous people. You can learn more about WWFs global activities by visiting our Website. There you will find information on a variety of animals, as well as news and publications about WWFs many conservation programs. Check out our photo galleries, fun facts, and stories about WWF scientists in the field as they work to save species around the globe. And be sure to use WWFs WildFinder, a database of more than 30,000 species at www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder. Its powerful search tool will allow you to explore wild places, find out which species live there, and what you can do to help!

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Start your World Wildlife Fund adventure today! In the United States: www.worldwildlife.org In Canada: www.wwf.ca
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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A very small percentage of people may experience a seizure when exposed to certain visual images, including flashing lights or patterns that may appear in video games. Even people who have no history of seizures or epilepsy may have an undiagnosed condition that can cause these photosensitive epileptic seizures while watching video games. These seizures may have a variety of symptoms, including lightheadedness, altered vision, eye or face twitching, jerking or shaking of arms or legs, disorientation, confusion, or momentary loss of awareness. Seizures may also cause loss of consciousness or convulsions that can lead to injury from falling down or striking nearby objects. Immediately stop playing and consult a doctor if you experience any of these symptoms. Parents should watch for or ask their children about the above symptomschildren and teenagers are more likely than adults to experience these seizures. The risk of photosensitive epileptic seizures may be reduced by taking the following precautions: Play in a well-lit room. Do not play when you are drowsy or fatigued. If you or any of your relatives have a history of seizures or epilepsy, consult a doctor before playing.
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Welcome to Zoo Tycoon 2

The animals are counting on you
Building great exhibits. Making animals and guests happy. Encouraging reproduction among your animals. Managing funds effectively. Hiring hardworking staff members. Researching specific animals and other zoo objects. Making your zoo beautiful. Youll find success and attain true tycoon status when you focus on the following in Zoo Tycoon 2:

Whats new at the zoo

Zoo guest mode
In zoo guest mode, the eye-opening new first-person view in Zoo Tycoon 2, you can climb down from your zoo-creator perch and into your guests, your staffs, and even your animals perspectives. In zoo guest mode, you can make like a zookeeper as you feed, water, and groom your animals, and even sweep up piles of poop.
In photo safari mode, you can capture your zoos spectacular (and some not so spectacular) sights with a single press of the SPACEBAR. Whether its a lion pride playing in a savannah exhibit or a barrelful of monkeys swingin from the trees in a tropical rainforest exhibit, youll be there to capture all the action. Organize your favorites into photo albums you can export to HTML and share via the Web with your friends, family, and fellow Zoo Tycoon 2 fans.

Photo safari mode

To install Zoo Tycoon 2
Insert the Zoo Tycoon 2 disc into your CD-ROM drive, and then follow the instructions that appear on the screen.
Note If Setup does not begin automatically, see the Readme file located on the Zoo Tycoon 2 disc.
Biome brush and habitat editor tools
Quickly populate an exhibit with the appropriate plants, trees, rocks, and ground cover using the biome brush, the ultimate landscaping shortcut. The new habitat editor tools let you painlessly create hills, valleys, mountains, moats, plateaus and plains, building exciting exhibits that use natural boundaries instead of fences to contain animals. For more details, see pages 14 and 15.

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When you first start playing Zoo Tycoon 2, its a good idea to complete the tutorial campaigns that introduce you to the basics of building a zoo. Youll start with simple challenges, like creating a small zoo, and then move on to bigger, more complex projects. To start one of the tutorials, select it on the Select Campaign screen.

Getting started

Downloads
If you have an Internet connection, click the Downloads button on the main menu to check for game updates and new downloadable game content, including new animals, buildings, and scenery, from Microsoft via the Internet. New content is added all the time, so be sure to check back often.

When you start Zoo Tycoon 2, you can choose from one of three available gameplay modes: Campaign, Challenge, or Freeform.

Main menu

Campaign

Game Options

On the Game Options screen, you can adjust a range of video and audio settings, including video modes (full-screen vs. windowed), performance settings (high, medium, and low), video resolution, and sound and music volume.

Load Saved Game

Campaign games are designed to step you through the basics of running a successful zoo. Youll learn about building a great zoo, caring for your animals and guests, and meeting your economic goals. Each campaign consists of several scenarios, each with specific goals to complete. For example, you may be challenged to repair a dilapidated zoo or two, or to care for rescued animals. When you complete a campaign, you unlock reward objects.
The Load Saved Game button lets you jump quickly right back into a game that you have previously saved.
The world of Zoo Tycoon 2 is biome-based, and youll see many references to biomes as you play the game. So what in the heck is a biome? Biome is a term used to describe a complex community of plants and animals that live in a specific climate or weather condition. Biomes youve probably heard of include desert, tundra, tropical rainforest, and savannah. For example, the savannah biome is comprised of savannah plants, including acacia and baobab trees, blackthorn bushes, and elephant grass, and savannah animals like the elephant, giraffe, and lion. Savannahs are common in dry, hot climates like central Africa. In Zoo Tycoon 2, almost every object used to create an exhibit, including the animals, plants, trees, foliage, rocks, and ground cover, is associated with a specific biome. You can use your knowledge of biomes to create a wide range of natural habitats where your animals will thrive and, hopefully, start building families.
A brief word about biomes

Challenge

In challenge games, you begin with a very limited budget and an equally limited set of available animals, foliage, structures, and path types. As you increase your zoo fame score, more choices will become available. New choices also become available as you fund research on specific objects. When you complete several game and photo safari challenges, you unlock rewardthemed objects you can use to beautify your zoo.
In freeform games, you can build the zoo of your dreams, with an unlimited budget and all the animals, buildings, and scenery available from the very beginning. Its the perfect place to try out all of your wild zoo ideas without burning a hole in your budget.

Freeform

Main game buttons
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VIEW ZOO QUICK STATS VIEW ZOO FINANCES UNDO LAST ACTION RECYCLE OBJECTS BIOME BRUSH TREES TOOLS HABITAT PLANTS AND EDITOR TOOLS FLOWERS SAVE, LOAD, EXIT OR RETURN TO MAIN MENU DISPLAY GOALS AND CHALLENGES DISPLAY ZOO FAME VIEW PHOTO SAFARI ALBUM

Animal Panel

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The best zoo layouts are usually the result of advanced planning. The smartest thing you can do when starting out is plan for the future growth and expansion of your zoo. By taking a moment to stop and strategize before throwing cash, fencing, and path tiles willy-nilly, you can save money in the short term while also creating a more hospitable environment for both your resident animals and their guests.

Basics of zoo layout

Place gift shops and ATMs near the entrance to your zoo to encourage guests to make purchases before they exit. To encourage traffic flow, place the exhibits for the most popular animals in the farthest reaches of your zoo. This will encourage your guests to dine, shop, stroll, and spend more time in your zoo. Build observation areas between a path and an exhibit. Simply lay down a short stretch of pathway alongside the exhibit. Whenever possible, include the zoo perimeter wall as part of an exhibit's fencing. This saves money on fences, and also encourages building exhibits on the outer edges of your zoo. Beauty may be only skin deep, but your zoo's visual aesthetics make a big impact on the happiness levels of your guests. Don't be afraid to invest in flowerbeds, fountains, and other scenery objects with visual (even if not practical) appeal. Guests enjoy looking at neat objects like themed trash cans and food stands. Place staff gates to keep guests out of areas you dont want them to visit. Only staff members may pass through staff gates.

Top 10 zoo layout tips

Wide open spaces are a good thing. Spread things out to leave room for future expansion, and dont bunch your zoos biggest attractions all in one place. A standard grid layout, with paths around large exhibits or groups of smaller exhibits, can be a solid way to start. Just make sure that the animals have enough room in any smaller exhibits. A fork layout, in which your zoos main paths are divided by a space 25 tiles wide, is another good option for zoos designed to accommodate large numbers of guests. Populate the open spaces with guest amenities and scenery objects, or create additional paths to ease traffic flow. In general, bigger is better when it comes to building exhibits. The more animals an exhibit contains, the more attractive the exhibit and the more money people will put into your donation boxes. Zoo guests also receive more educational value from exhibits with multiple animals.

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Once youve determined a general layout for your zoo, the next step is to start building exhibits to house those most precious of zoo commoditiesthe animals, the stars of the show.

Building great exhibits

Click the Zookeeper Recommendations button on the Animal Information panel to view the recommended food, toys, shelter, fences, rocks, and plants for a specific animal. Jump into zoo guest mode before laying down paths and exhibit areas to see what its like as a guest walking through your zoo. Experiment with creating large multi-species exhibits that house more than one Paths that kind of animal. For too steep fo are example, a mixed-use r savannah exhibit can to climb are guests h potentially accommodate lighted in y ighblack rhinos, common ellow. zebras, reticulated giraffes, elephants, and Thomsons gazelles. Guests love to see multiple kinds of animals coexisting in an exhibit and, as a result, will put more money in your donation boxes.
Exhibit building - the nuts and bolts
When calculating exhibit size, build exhibits large enough to accommodate a family (or variety) of animals, even if you're only starting out with one. Use the biome brush and the habitat editor tools to quickly create biome-appropriate environments for your animals. See pages 14 and 15 for details. When used by themselves, low fences translate into awesome views, but they do a dismal job of keeping your animals in their exhibits. When used in combination with a moat or elevation change, however, they can be used as protective barriers. Although zoo guests like to see the animals up close, respect your animals need for privacy. Building exhibits with a combination of solid and clear walls is a good way to take care of both your animals and your zoo guests needs.
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Using the zoo tools
Fences have many uses in the Zoo Tycoon 2 world, from forming a sturdy yet see-through barrier between guest and beast to prettying up public areas and directing the flow of traffic. Choosing the best fencing for your specific needs is crucial to your zoos success. You need to find the right balance between protecting your guests and giving them unbridled visual access to your animal inhabitants.
Octagonal fence placement

Building fences

Octagonal fence placement mode is perfect for creating more rounded fence enclosures. It works the same way as rectangular fence placement mode.

Creating paths for your guests
Zoo Tycoon 2 offers three different methods for placing fences.
When placing paths, its a good idea to focus on ensuring the smooth flow of guest traffic through your zoo by placing paths that are wide enough (i.e., three tiles wide) to accommodate large numbers of guests. You want to avoid bottlenecks in food service areas and also make sure your guests are encouraged to explore every nook and cranny of the amazing zoo environment youve created.
Rubber-band fence placement
Rubber-band placement mode is most useful when you want to build a custom-shaped fence. Click to plant the first fence post, and then click to place additional fence sections in any shape you like. You can also stretch the fence like a rubber band (thus the name). When finished, right-click to release the fence from the cursor.
The wide range of buildings and other structures available in Zoo Tycoon 2 runs the gamut from restrooms and snack carts to fountains, playground equipment, compost buildings, and more. Most buildings are designed to generate income by meeting the needs of your human guests, who are usually focused on food and drink, a clean bathroom, a place to rest, and pretty scenery, along with souvenir shopping opportunities.
Placing buildings and scenery objects
Rectangular fence placement
Rectangular fence placement mode works best when you want a square- or rectangular-shaped enclosure. Click and hold to start placing the fence, and then drag the mouse to adjust the size of the fenced area. Click again to create the enclosure. After you create the enclosure, you will be prompted to place a staff gate in the fence and a donation box nearby.

Rotating objects

To rotate the position of a building or other object before you place it in your zoo (once its placed, you wont be able to rotate it), you have three options: Use the < and > keys to rotate the object in either direction before you place it. Rotate an object in place immediately before placing it by pressing and holding the left mouse button and moving the mouse. Release the left mouse button to place it. Use the arrows in the Object Information panel to rotate the position of the selected object before placing it onto your zoo grid.
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With the biome brush and habitat editor tools in Zoo Tycoon 2, you can forget about blisters, backaches, and even botany when building great exhibits.

Landscaping shortcuts

The habitat editor

The biome brush

With a single click of the mouse, you can wield the power of backhoes, bulldozers, and other earth-moving equipment to quickly create mountains, valleys, and more as you build the ultimate animal exhibits using the habitat editor tools. With these tools, you can manipulate terrain to create waterfalls, elevated walkways, and natural boundaries for the zoo of your dreams.
Take the guesswork out of plant selection and unlock the mysteries of exhibit foliage placement when you use the biome brush tool to quickly create lushly landscaped environments. A sweep of the biome brush fills your exhibit with terrain and vegetation appropriate to the biome type youve selected. Whether youre creating an exhibit based on an African savannah, Arctic tundra, a tropical rainforest, wetlands, or a desert biome, the biome brush offers a shortcut to finding and placing the best types of plants, trees, shrubs, grasses, rocks, and water types for that specific environment, all at a reasonable cost. With the biome brush, you can choose from a range of different terrain and deep and shallow water tools that are associated with each biome type.
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Caring for animals

Adopting animals

Zoo Tycoon 2 offers a wide variety of animals to adopt, including rare,

Encouraging reproduction

Animals reproducing in your zoo is one of your ultimate signs of successit means you have satisfied the basic and advanced needs of the fledglings parents, making them so happy and comfortable that theyve had time to turn their attention to each other. You also get economic benefits from the birth of an animal. Zoo guests find baby animals more interesting than adult animalsthis means they spend more time watching them and may even be inspired to donate more money to your zoo.

Attracting zoo guests

Managing your zoo
You can hire three different kinds of staff people to help take care of managing your zoo: zookeepers, maintenance workers, and animal educators. Each type of employee focuses on a different aspect of your zoo.

Hiring staff

Top 10 tips for attracting guests to your zoo
Keep it clean. Placing recycling bins and trash cans around your zoo can help keep things spotless. Showcase popular animals, and include as many different species as possible (this will have a huge effect on your zoo fame score!).
Give 'em room. Build paths that leave plenty of elbow room for the crowds. Large viewing areas near popular exhibits also keep crowds happy.
When you have an unlimited budget, the smartest thing you can do with a new zoo is hire a zookeeper to feed, heal, and clean up after your animals. Its also a good idea to assign a zookeeper specifically to care for your star animals. Zookeepers draw the highest salaries of all zoo employees, but you can save money by performing the zookeeper duties yourself in zoo guest mode.

Zookeepers

Provide facilities where guests can be fed, watered, and rested, and they'll be happy. They're not so different from your animal inhabitants, in fact. Encourage reproduction among your animals. Zoo guests love baby animals. Experiment with changing the price of zoo admission and zoo concessions until you find the perfect balance between keeping guests happy (and spending!) and maximizing your profit potential. Guests like to be amused while in the zoo. In addition to viewing animals, they like to admire interesting statues, fountains, and themed areas. Kids love to play on playground equipment. Pay attention to your zoo's aesthetics. Flowers and fountains can make a real difference in your guests' happiness levels. Guests are happiest when viewing happy, healthy animals in well-designed exhibits. Guests also want to be educated. Seeing animals in exhibits that represent their natural biomes may prompt guests to donate more money to your zoo.
Maintenance workers are the unsung heroes of a successful zoo. They keep guests happy by picking up trash and emptying trash cans. If your trash cans are overflowing, most guests will notice and start heading for the exit, so hiring a maintenance worker to keep things clean can be an economically smart move.

Maintenance workers

Animal educators enrich your guests zoo visits by giving informative lectures about your zoos animal inhabitants. When you hire an animal educator, you must also place an educator podium (found on the Buildings tab on the Construction panel) adjacent to an exhibit before the educator will start lecturing. Educators who cant find a podium from which to speak will wander your zoo aimlessly, full of knowledge but unable to share it. Some guests may become so inspired by the informational talks that they donate more money to your zoo (make sure you encourage them by placing donation boxes in convenient locations).

Animal educators

Zoo incomehow to make money

Income from donations

Donations are your primary source of income when youre running a zoo. Zoo guests who enjoyed their visit to your zoo have the potential to make donations. Guests who have seen interesting animals do interesting things may place money in the zoo donation boxes you place outside of your zoo exhibits. Guests are also often inspired to make education donations when they see animals in exhibits that represent their natural biomes. You can also earn cash grants by completing challenges in challenge games.
Income from food and drink concessions
Restaurants are expensive to build and maintain, but they are also more convenient than investing in multiple smaller food stands. Restaurants offer seating areas, wait staff, and trash disposal.
Every food and drink concession, from the lowliest dessert cart to the fanciest restaurant, has upkeep costs associated with it. The key to your success will be to find concessions that turn a profit after the upkeep costs have been paid.
Income from gift carts and gift shops
The key to food and beverage profits is just like real estate Location, location, location.
Few things in life make guests happier than purchasing a souvenir of their visit. Both the gift carts and the gift shops in Zoo Tycoon 2 sell gifts associated with specific animals. When guests enjoy looking at a certain animal in your zoo, theyre usually thrilled to buy a gift that represents that animal. Gift carts have a low upkeep cost, but they also stock low-priced gifts that represent the basic animals in your zoo. With a larger inventory of souvenirs, the gift shop has the potential to be a big moneymaker. Gift shops have higher upkeep costs, but they also stock higher-priced gifts.

Admission income

When you first start out, admission fees are an important source of income for your zoo. With lower admission prices, your guests have more money to spend on food, drinks, and souvenirs without having to visit an ATM.

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Guests wont give money if they cant find a donation box. Note to self: place at least one or two donation boxes adjacent to the viewing areas for all major exhibits.
A gift shops location in your zoo will have a major impact on its revenues. Be sure to place gift shops in high-traffic areas and close to your entrance gates.

Income from recycling

When you remove a building or scenery object, you receive a recycling fee that helps recoup the objects original cost. You can also turn poop into profits by building a compost building in a discreet location away from food service areas and your zoo guests. The compost building has no upkeep costs, and once its built, youll collect a monthly fee for poop recycling.
Zoo expenseswhere the dough goes

Animal adoption costs

The prices of the animals available for adoption vary widely. Relatively inexpensive animals include the camel, Thomsons gazelle, and moose, while zoo favorites like the polar bear, lion, and mountain gorilla fetch higher prices. The most highly priced animalsespecially the giant pandacost more, but bring many economic benefits to your zoo. These true stars of your zoo attract more guests and often inspire them to donate more money. And, if you are skillful enough to coax a giant panda to reproduce, you are well on your way to becoming a true zoo tycoon.
Animal upkeep costs Employee wages
Animal upkeep costs include animal food and medical care. You can save money by healing your animals yourself in zoo guest mode, but animal food costs are the same regardless of who dispenses it.
Every staff member you hire draws a monthly salary that is paid at the end of the month. Zookeepers draw the highest salaries, but they are often good investments, since the work they do makes a positive contribution to your bottom line. Maintenance workers draw a fairly humble salary. You can also reduce these costs by completing zookeeper and maintenance worker tasks yourself in zoo guest mode.

Construction costs

While an animal like the grizzly bear may seem to be a reasonably priced acquisition for your zoo, its also important to consider the cost of building an exhibit to accommodate this hard-to-please resident. Some animals are very low maintenance in terms of their environmental needs, while others may threaten to burn a hole in your budget. To get an idea of the costs associated with building an exhibit for a specific animal, check out the Zookeeper Recommendations for that animal.

Research costs

Researching objects takes time and can burn a big hole in your budget, but the benefits usually outweigh the costs. Most objects unlocked through research can make a positive contribution to your zoos budget.

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Zoo upkeep costs
After animal purchases and construction costs, zoo upkeep costs claim the most of your monthly budget. Zoo upkeep costs consist of all upkeep costs associated with your concessions and attractions and do not include employee wages.
Chimp Climbs Tree to Make Escape
Note to self: Invest in tall, strong fencing. Its worth it.
Keeping track of how youre doing
There are several ways to keep track of both your bankbook and the breathing bodies in your zoo.
Every zoo is assigned a zoo fame score on a scale of between 1 and 5 stars, which is shown in the upper-left corner of the game window. Your zoo fame score is determined by a combination of factors. Number of animals The more animals you have in your zoo, the higher your zoo fame score. Number of species Having multiple species will increase your zoo fame score. Happy animals If your animals arent happy, your zoo fame score will suffer, too. Exhibits that educate Your zoo is more educational (and more famous) when each animal is in a biome-appropriate exhibit. Animals that entertain Guests like having a close-up view of healthy, happy, and active animals, especially rare or exotic ones.

Zoo fame

ZOO INFORMATION
ZOO GRAPHS INCOME AND EXPENSES ZOO AWARDS
ZOO BUILDINGS ZOO DONATIONS

ZOO FAME

ZOO STATUS BUTTON
Happy guests Your zoo fame score is affected by unhappy guests. Completing challenges You cant lose fame you gain by completing challenges and earning rewards. Releasing animals You cant lose fame you gain by releasing animals into the wild.

Zoo Status panel

VIEW ANIMAL LIST

VIEW GUEST LIST

VIEW STAFF LIST

VIEW QUICK STATS BUTTON

ANIMAL LIST FILTER OPTIONS

Quick Stats

A 5-star zoo!

Animal checklist

ANIMAL AFRICAN ELEPHANT AMERICAN BEAVER BENGAL TIGER BLACK RHINOCEROS CHEETAH CHIMPANZEE COMMON PEAFOWL COMMON ZEBRA DROMEDARY CAMEL EMPEROR PENGUIN GEMSBOK GIANT PANDA GREATER FLAMINGO GRIZZLY BEAR HIPPOPOTAMUS JAGUAR LION MOOSE MOUNTAIN GORILLA NILE CROCODILE OKAPI OSTRICH POLAR BEAR RED KANGAROO RED PANDA RETICULATED GIRAFFE RING-TAILED LEMUR SNOW LEOPARD THOMSONS GAZELLE ADOPTED? SUCCESSFULLY BRED? RELEASED INTO WILD? ICON

Emoticon legend

DESCRIPTION I DONT UNDERSTAND. IVE BEEN EDUCATED. IM MAD. IM INTERESTED. ENTERTAINED: THATS AWESOME! IM AMUSED. IM TOO CRAMPED. THIS EXHIBIT ISNT RIGHT. ENVIRONMENT SATISFACTION I NEED AN ATM. IM PREGNANT. IM SICK. I CANT SEE. ICON DESCRIPTION I HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM. IM LONELY. I NEED TO REST. I WANT TO HAVE A BABY. I NEED A TRASH CAN. I WANT DESSERT. IM STIMULATED. PRIVACY LEVEL HUNGER LEVEL THIRST LEVEL EXERCISE NEED HYGIENE LEVEL IM SLEEPY.

Technical support

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