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| EXTRA CHEAT CODES | 100% | |
| *** This cheat procedure involves editing a file! Please create a backup copy of the file before editing it to be safe.. Use a text editor to edit the zoo.ini file. Add the following entries under the [ scenario ] section. [ scenario ] tutorial=0 ba=1 bb=1 bc=1 ca=1 cb=1 cc=1 cd=1 da=1 db=1 dc=1 dd=1 ea=1 eb=1 | ||
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| Wacky Staff | 100% | |
| Name any staff you have: Crocodile Hunter - Goes in to a croc's exhibit Tom Kenny - Fat man Weird Al Yankovic - Let all animals out of exhibits | ||
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| Give me one more chance | 100% | |
| If guests are mad, name an exhibit "Wonderland". Now, guests are happy. Now, you an another change to guests to make your guests, happy guests. Also will never small poo, Medium poo, or large poo. (thanks: M Gorilla) | ||
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| Note | 100% | |
| When using the "name an exhibit" cheat, be sure that you let the game name the exhibit for you, then go back and name the exhibit as noted in the cheat. Not doing so may cause the game to crash. | ||
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| Free bear | 100% | |
| Name a bear Deer and the bear will escape for its exhibit. | ||
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| Add Money | 100% | |
| This method works for Freeform games only, for the scenarios you have to edit scnXX.scn, where XX means the number of the scenario, and which is located in the scenario.zip. Open config.zip, then search for the file economy.cfg. Open it with Notepad, the search the following line:cash=50000. Enter the amount of money you would like to have, than save the file. When you start a new game you will have the cash you wanted. I discovered this myself,so if you use this cheat on your web site then please give me the credits. (thanks: zsocy) | ||
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| Killer Penguins | 100% | |
| Put Herbivore with a penguin. Their will cartoon-like dust everywhere. Then all penguins are mean. (Even one you just adopt). | ||
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| Eloping Keepers | 100% | |
| When you have problems with eloping keepers construct on your exhibit entrance tile enough picket fence to keep the keeper out of your park. Buy the keeper, put him on an existing path and click the exhibit on his workchedule, then place the keeper in the exhibit and as you will see the animals will benefit from maximum caretaking of the zookeeper. (thanks: Bash) | ||
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| Bonus | 100% | |
| When you are low on money, build and exhibit and put all your species in it(if you have enough), and you will get the award for most diverse zoo, and $30,000 bonus. (thanks: Ozzy) | ||
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| Yellow Brick Road Footpath | 100% | |
| Place a lion tiger and bear in the same exibit to unlock the "yellow brick road" footpath. | ||
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| Another Method | 100% | |
| You can get instant money by pressing [shift ][4] ($) but make sure you do it and get enough money before you make any animal cages or all your fences will break and your animals will get loose. | ||
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| Blinking Cursor | 100% | |
| Some people said that they had a bug in their game, and it was a blinking cursor. Well I never had this bug n my games, but I noticed if you press ctrl + c it makes your cursor blink. If you want it to not blink just press ctrl + c again and it will turn off! (thanks: Xanadu) | ||
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| World of Darkness | 100% | |
| From the Bronx Zoo to Zoo tycoon have the animal house. To get it on Zoo Tycoon, name your zoo "Bronx Zoo". Then a zoo keeper "Bronx Zoo". This will put World of Darkness on Zoo buildings. | ||
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| Make a fountain go Haywire | 100% | |
| Go to the menu where you by fountains, right click on the Elephant Fountain and press shift, ctrl, alt at the same time and your fountain will spray water all over the place and soak your guests. | ||
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| Animals smash your buildings | 100% | |
| Put all the animals in the same exhibit and then let them free. They will tear down your trees trample your paths and reduce your buildings to rubble. | ||
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| Instant Money | 100% | |
| Press Shift+4 (basically like typing the $), and you will get an instant $10,000. | ||
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| Another Method | 100% | |
| 1. Open config.ztd with winzip. 2. Open Economy.cfg with notepad or wordpad. 3. Search for cZooDooRecyclingAmount and change the number to whatever you want. This will be the profit for every recycle you do. Normally you recycle around 8-12 times per month. 4. Also, look for cKeeperCost which should be 800. This is the salary you pay your zoo keepers. Change it to something lower and your expenses will decrease dramatically. 5. If you want more money at start of the game, edit zoo.ini with notepad or wordpad and find a line called MSMaxCash. Change that to whatever you want and you can start out with a couple of million. | ||
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| Killer bees attack | 100% | |
| Put an insect house in a Crocodile's exhibit and a swar, of killer bees will attack your guests. | ||
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| Turn off Foliage Drawing | 100% | |
| Press Ctrl-F to turn off the drawing of all foliage on the map. Hitting Ctrl-F again will turn it back on. | ||
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| Easter Eggs | 98% | |
| Santa Claus - Wait to the day on Zoo Tycoon is Dec. 25 that is Christmas. Easter Bunny - Wait to the day on ZooTycoon is Easter. He will enter your zoo. April Fool - Wait to the day on ZooTycoon is April 1st, April Fools' Day. He will enter your zoo. Witch - Wait to the day on ZooTycoon is Oct. 30, Halloween. She will enter your zoo. Hobo - Wait to the day on ZooTycoon is Jan. 8 ,The fist hobo. He will enter your zoo. New Year's Baby - Wait to the day on ZooTycoon is Jan. 1, New year's Day. Zoo Tycoon Airplane - Wait for the day Sept. 15, day Zoo Tycoon was made. It will fly over the park. Make Your Zoo Into the Shape of a Country Japan - Your zoo will be the shape of Japan USA - Your zoo will be the shape of USA Tanzania - Your zoo will be the shape of Tanzania Canada - Your zoo will be the shape of Canada Australia - Your zoo will be the shape of Australia Brazil - Your zoo will be the shape of Brazil You can also try Russia, England, Italy, Mexico, India, China, Singapore, South Africa, Antarctica, Peru, Argentina, Spain, Greece, Iceland, Norway, Turkey, Nepal... Get more Fast-fast places Should name a Zoo Keeper: Gotfree - Cats in the Kettle Hotyou - Chinese Place | ||
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| 2X Donations | 98% | |
| Name an exibit Microsoft and get 2x donations. (thanks: White Tiger) | ||
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| More Money | 98% | |
| Put 10 different animals in the same exhibit. | ||
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| Unlock More Animals | 96% | |
| Dodo: Name an exhibit "doflopnok". Great Auk: Have an exhibit with penguin and a dodo. Tasmanian Tiger: Name your zoo "Cista Zoo". Sea turle: Rename one of your Exhibits "Sea lake". Irish Setter: Rename one of your Exhibits "Ireland Pets". Grizzly bear: Name a bear "Deer" and the bear will gets free. American Alligator: Name an exhibit "American Florida" and then put a Saltwater Crocdile in it. | ||
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| Unlock Ice Age creatures | 96% | |
| Woolly Mammoth: Put an elephant and Triceratops in the Same exhibit. Giant Sloth: Have a snowy ground with trees everyone in an exhibit. Saber-tooth Tiger: Name an exhibit "Carmera ceious". Woolly Rhino: Have a snowy ground with a rhino in an exhibit. | ||
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| Singing poo | 96% | |
| Under Speak Bonzi speak type: Poooooooooooooooooooooo. Then he sings. | ||
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| Laugh Bonzi laugh | 96% | |
| Under Speak Bonzi speak type: (laugh) with these: (). Then he will laugh like he laugh after telling a joke. | ||
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| Elmer Fudd | 96% | |
| To get Elmer Fudd work for you. Name an exhibit "Ozzy Fudd". Then it say do you want Elmer Fudd to be on hire Staff?. | ||
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| Dancing Cucumbers | 96% | |
| Name your zoo " Green Brine" and then wait until May 17 and a group of dancing cucumbers with hula skirts on will walk in your zoo | ||
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| Cut-off Salaries | 96% | |
| Name a tour guide Rosalie and all your tour guied's salaries will turn to zero. | ||
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| Jurassic Park | 94% | |
| Name a guest "Barney". If the guest dress like Barney, it is working. Then "Bad Weekend". Then look Freedom game menu. Look for Jurassic Park. Open it, then you see guest running. Also dinosaurs run free. Put it in an exhibit, then the dinosaur under Adopt Animals. | ||
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| Unlock Stone Age creatures | 94% | |
| Mammoth: Name one of your exhibits "Stone Age". Triceratops: Name an exhibit "Cretaceous Corral". T-Rex: Put a Croc with a Triceratops in an exhibit. Raptor: Have a snowy ground with a Croc. | ||
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| My Name is Darth Vader | 94% | |
| Name any staff person "Darker Side". Then Darth Vader will be on Hire Staff. | ||
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| Funny Animals | 94% | |
| Use the following names on the appropriate animals: (Hippo) Fat: Two hippos Sumo (Bear) Deer: Bear gets Free from Exhibit (Lion) Nan: Get a baby from a male lion (Unicorn) Larry: get size of a Dinosaur (Dinosaur) Unicorn: One Horn (Dodo) Doflopnok: Unlock the White Dodo (Panda) Blackly: Unlock and turn in to a Red Panda (Bongo) Bad: Turn in an Okapi (Okapi) Tall: Get tall as a Giraffe (Yeti) Bigfoot: Unlock the Bigfoot (Yeti) Bentley: Turn in to Spyro's friend, Bentley (Reindeer) Rulpoln: Red light nose (Reindeer) Dancer: Dances with a female Reindeer (Croc) Agent 9: Always happy (Monkey) Agent9: Turn in to Spyro's friend Agent9 (Ape: Chimpanzee or Gorilla) Borneo: Unlock the Orangutan (Ape) Kangaroo: Unlock the Wallaby (Gorilla) Mountain: Unlock the Mountain Gorilla (Tiger) Nope: Unlock the Magnet the Polar bear (Tiger) Dog: Unlock all Worker Dogs and Great Dane (Kangaroo) Shelia: Turn in to Spyro's Friend Sheila the Kangaroo (Penguin) Sgt.Byrd: Turn in to Spyro's frend Sgt.Byrd the flying Penguin (Sgt. Byrd) Fly: Fly out of Your Exhibit and Your Zoo (Elephant) Cuckoo: Sat on an other elephant. (Emu) Australia: Unlock the Cassowary (Ostrich) Bird: Unlock the Emu (Kangaroo) Captain Kangaroo: Turn in to Captain Kangaroo (Moose) Puppet: Turn in to a moose puppet (Moose) Horns: Use Antlers to get free from exhibit (Unicorn) Rainbow: Use a rainbow to get free (Ape) Tail: All apes start to grow tails (Any) Picture: On animal facts all pictures are different (Anteater) Eater: Get size of a Triceratops (Triceratops) T-Rex: Jurassic Park is Unlock on freedom game. (Leopard) Snow: All animals will turn in to Snow Leopard, It will in your zoo (Dodo) Mr.Dodo: Turn in the dodo from Alice in Wonderland (Mammoth) Ice Age: Unlock more Ice Age. (Sloth) Trees: Have all trees from Ice Age and Stone Age | ||
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| Unlock Non-real animals | 93% | |
| Unicorn: Name an exhibit "Xanadu" Dragon: Put a Penguin, Yeti, Kangaroo, and a monkey in the same exhibit Albino Giraffe: Name an exhibit "White color" Yeti: Name an exhibit "Kathmandu" (thanks: Andrew) Reindeer: Rename one of your Exhibits "Santa Claus" (thanks: Andrew) Dodo from Alice in Wonderland: Name a dodo Mr.Dodo. Lockness Monster: Put a crocdile and a Yeti in the same exhibit. Unknown Reptile: Put a Alligator, a crocodile, and a Capybara in the same exhibit | ||
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| Unlock Dinosaurs | 92% | |
| Brachiosaurus: Put a Triceratops in the same exhibit with a Giraffe Allosaurus: Put a Crocodile and a Lion in the same exhibit Stegosaurus: Put a Grizzly bear in an exhibit and then place a Reptile House in the exhibit Lambeosaurus: Put a Triceratops, Unicorn, Crocodile, African Elephant, Giraffe and a Giant Anteater in the same exhibit. Diplodocus: Name an exhibit "Long Neck" Giant Chameleon: Put a Crocodile and a Triceratops in the same exhibit and fill the entire exhibit with rainforest terrain. Brachiosaurus: Put a Triceratops and a Giraffe in the same exhibit. Sea Serpent: Put a Penguin, a Yeti and a Crocodile in the same exhibit. Giant Crocodile from dinosaur times: Put a Crocodile, A Triceratops and an Elephant in the same exhibit. Triceratops: Name an exhibit "Cretaceous Corral". T-Rex: Put a Croc with a Triceratops in an exhibit. Raptor: Have a snowy ground with a Croc. | ||
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| HINTS | 92% | |
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| Newest cheats | 80% | |
| Put a mermaid statue in a tank to get a mermaid . the statue will crack and it will turn to a mermaid | ||
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| All animal houses | 57% | |
| Name a geust Andrew Binder | ||
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| How to make a emu get out of its exhibit | 50% | |
| Get a yeti,bongo and a lion in the same exhibit | ||
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| Zoo tycoon cheats | 45% | |
| Change a visitor's name to any of the following for the desired effect: Adam Levesque - Makes all animals care programs available Akiyama - Unlocks all of the scenarios Alfred H - White Birds Appear and Scare People Andrew Binder - Unlocks all of the animal houses Bill Gates - Get higher donations Charlie Petterson - Get all the foliage Hank Howie - Researches All Zoo Staff Research John Wheeler - All Animal Shelters Available Lou Catanzaro - All animal toys Mr. Blue - Changes clothes and buildings color to Blue Mr. Blonde - Changes clothes and buildings color to Yellow Mr. White - Changes clothes and buildings color to White Mr. Brown - Changes clothes and buildings color to Brown Mr. Orange - Changes clothes and buildings color to Orange Mr. Pink - Changes clothes and buildings color to Pink Mr. White - Changes clothes and buildings color to White Russell C - Fences All Deteriorate 100% Steve Serafino - Unlocks all of the endangered animals Zeta Psi - Some People's Shirt Turns Yellow and They Puke More Cheat Codes Get Super Croc! Make an exhibit and name it Super Croc (with the capitals). You'll get the dino croc and as a baby he's the same size as a regular Croc! Darth Vador Staff Name one of your zoo keepers DARKER SIDE. Darth Vador can now be chosen as one of the people in your Staff. Add Money This method works for Freeform games only, for the scenarios you have to edit scnXX.scn, where XX means the number of the scenario, and which is located in the scenario.zip. Open config.zip, then search for the file economy.cfg. Open it with Notepad, the search the following line:cash=50000. Enter the amount of money you would like to have, than save the file. When you start a new game you will have the cash you wanted. Another Method 1. Open config.ztd with winzip. 2. Open Economy.cfg with notepad or wordpad. 3. Search for cZooDooRecyclingAmount and change the number to whatever you want. This will be the profit for every recycle you do. Normally you recycle around 8-12 times per month. 4. Also, look for cKeeperCost which should be 800. This is the salary you pay your zoo keepers. Change it to something lower and your expenses will decrease dramatically. 5. If you want more money at start of the game, edit zoo.ini with notepad or wordpad and find a line called MSMaxCash. Change that to whatever you want and you can start out with a couple of million. Another Method You can get instant money by pressing [shift][4] ($) but make sure you do it and get enough money before you make any animal cages or all your fences will break and your animals will get loose. Turn off Foliage Drawing Press Ctrl-F to turn off the drawing of all foliage on the map. Hitting Ctrl-F again will turn it back on. 2X Donations Name an exibit Microsoft or name an exibit Blue Fang and get 2x donations. Cut-off Salaries Name a tour guide Rosalie and all your tour guied's salaries will turn to zero. More Money Put 10 different animals in the same exhibit. Yellow Brick Road Place a lion, Bengal tiger, and a Black bear in the same exhibit. Dodo from Alice and Wonderland Name a dodo Mr.Dodo than the dodo will turn in to the dodo bird from Disney's Alice and Wonderland. Grizzly bear Name a bear "Deer" and the bear will gets free. Unlock the Triceratops To unlock the Triceratops, rename one of your exhibits "Cretaceous Corral". The game may crash if you give this name to a new exhibit. Unlock the Unicorn To unlock the Unicorn, rename one of your exhibits "Xanadu". The game may crash if you give this name to a new exhibit. Easter Eggs Santa Claus - Wait to the day on Zoo Tycoon is Dec. 25 that is Christmas. Easter Bunny - Wait to the day on ZooTycoon is Easter. He will enter your zoo. Witch - Wait to the day on ZooTycoon is Oct. 30, Halloween. She will enter your zoo. Zoo Tycoon Airplane - Wait for the day Sept. 15, day Zoo Tycoon was made. It will fly over the park. Extra Cheat Codes Edit zoo.ini file Note: This procedure involves editing a game file create a backup copy of the file before proceeding. Use a text editor to edit the zoo.ini file. Add the following entries under the [scenario] section. [scenario] tutorial=0 ba=1 bb=1 bc=1 ca=1 cb=1 cc=1 cd=1 da=1 db=1 dc=1 dd=1 ea=1 eb=1 Add money Find zoo.ini file in you game's install directory. If read-only attribute is set, click on file properties and turn it off. Now, open it using Notepad, find the following lines, and change them as you like: "MSStartingCash=10000000" - Starting cash "MSCashIncrement=500000" - Increasing money "MSMinCash=500000" - Min limit "MSMaxCash=10000000" - Max limit Save the changes you've made, and start the game. Don't forget that this doesn't affect your saved games, only new games. Hints NOTE: As their name suggests hints are not exactly Zoo Tycoon cheats, and are usually just simple (but very useful) tips on how you can unlock secret level, features, find hidden areas and such. Hopefully these will make playing Zoo Tycoon even more entertaining. Billy Increases Hamburger Demand Name a guest Bill Gates and the hamburger demand will increase Male Unicorns Fight When the automatic exhibit naming box appears after creating a new exhibit type in 'Xanadu' to unlock the unicorn. If you put a large, yet equal, number of male and female unicorns together, and a baby is born, the males will start to fight! HINT: they only fight if a baby is born within the first month of owning all these unicorns. Eloping Keepers When you have problems with eloping keepers construct on your exhibit entrance tile enough picket fence to keep the keeper out of your park. Buy the keeper, put him on an existing path and click the exhibit on his workchedule, then place the keeper in the exhibit and as you will see the animals will benefit from maximum caretaking of the zookeeper. Blinking Cursor Some people said that they had a bug in their game, and it was a blinking cursor. Well I never had this bug n my games, but I noticed if you press ctrl + c it makes your cursor blink. If you want it to not blink just press [Ctrl][C] again and it will turn off! Bonus When you're low on money, build and exhibit and put all your species in it(if you have enough), and you will get the award for most diverse zoo, and $30,000 bonus. Give me one more chance If guests are mad, name an exhibit "Wonderland". Then, guests are happy. Now, you an another change to guests to make your guests, happy guests. Also will never small poo, Medium poo, or large poo. More Money Trap all of your gests in an exibet next to the enterance and put a fence on the entarence of your zoo and put shops and stuf .Then they will buy all of your food and drinks. Fun Stuff Pause the game and pick some people (it doesn't matter how many).You build an exhibit fence around them. Put something scary like a lion in the exhibit. Unpause the game and watch the fun begin! Note: The people will usually leave the zoo, and thay might die if an animal attacks them. If you don't want them to die pause the game! More Money If you don't have much money, then sell some trees in your zoo (even if they were there when you started) by clicking on the bulldozer and selecting the tree. Very, Very Unhappy People ) When you have lots of people in you zoo, block of the entrence with fence and put all the animals in one very very small exibit. The animals will break down the fence and hurt, maybe even kill all the peple. Sell the babies When you first start a zoo put four male lions and four female lions (same with zebras) then when you are out of money sell all the babies | ||
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| How to get a elephant guest and a lion guest who are dressed up | 40% | |
| Get a giraffe,elephant,lion,rhinoceres,grizzly bear,polar bear,penguin,thomas gazelles,tricerotops,t-rex and a dodo all of the animals fighting the winner has to be a tricerotops or you wont get a elephant guest or a lion guest so do it right good luck with the cheat or hint its good and I tried it,it worked it did admin it really did! | ||
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| A super dodododo | 40% | |
| Name a exhibit do a job | ||
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| How to get fish | 33% | |
| Have a elephant,rhinosres,lion,giraffe,crocdile,grizzly bear,polar bear and a penguin all in your zoo and in good exhibits and the size matters do it how they want it. | ||
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In Zoo Tycoon, you'll be challenged to build the most healthy and vibrant zoo possible. With an easy to learn interface, you can begin planning your strategy and building your ultimate zoo the moment you start the game. Which is a good thing since you'll need to build, manage, and maintain a zoo with over 100 different types of animals, habitants, and building materials. Plan wisely, and all of your animals will be happy. Plan poorly, and those lions, tigers, and bears may find a new found interest in you! Zoo Tycoon - enjoy the fun and challenge of building and managing the ultimate zoo.