Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure

Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure
Release Date:
Release Date:
May 16, 2006
May 16, 2006
Rating:
Rating:
ESRB (E10+) PEGI (3+)
ESRB (E10+) PEGI (3+)
Interface:
Interface:
Orange
Orange

Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure is the 2nd expansion pack for Zoo Tycoon 2. Developed by Blue Fang Games, work on the expansion began in early 2005 for a May 16, 2006 release.

New Content

This expansion introduces 20 African animals, five of which return from the original Zoo Tycoon, with the other 15 being completely new to the series. New maps are based on African locations such as the Sahara Desert, Mount Kilimanjaro, the Drakensberg, and the Serengeti. This pack also includes Jeep Vehicle tours and related content from Endangered Species, in addition to introducing the Jeep Liberty. African Adventure expands on the animal behaviors introduced in Endangered Species: there are new, realistic herding behaviors, and there are predator and prey behaviors between species. This expansion is the first to include live food enrichment in the form of the Live Food Lizard which can be hunted by carnivorous animals. There is also a campaign scenario that will unlock a set of desert-themed buildings and objects if it is completed.

Animals

Image	Animal	Scientific name	Biome	Zoo Fame	Conservation Status
	Aardvark	Orycteropus afer	Scrub	2.5	Lower Risk
	African Buffalo	Syncerus caffer	Wetlands	0.5	Lower Risk
	African Spurred Tortoise	Centrochelys sulcata	Desert	1	Vulnerable
	Barbary Ape	Macaca sylvanus	Temperate Forest	2.5	Vulnerable
	Bongo	Tragelaphus eurycerus	Tropical Rainforest	0.5	Lower Risk
	Caracal	Caracal caracal	Scrub	4.5	Lower Risk
	Ethiopian Wolf	Canis simensis	Alpine	5	Critically Endangered
	Gelada	Theropithecus gelada	Alpine	3.5	Lower Risk
	Gerenuk	Litocranius walleri	Scrub	2	Lower Risk
	Mandrill	Mandrillus sphinx	Tropical Rainforest	4.5	Vulnerable
	Masai Giraffe	Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi	Savannah	1	Lower Risk
	Meerkat	Suricata suricatta	Scrub	3.5	Lower Risk
	Nile Monitor	Varanus niloticus	Wetlands	1.5	Lower Risk
	Pygmy Hippopotamus	Hexaprotodon liberiensis heslopi	Tropical Rainforest	4	Critically Endangered
	Ratel	Mellivora capensis	Grassland	2	Lower Risk
	Secretary Bird	Sagittarius serpentarius	Grassland	3	Lower Risk
	Striped Hyena	Hyaena hyaena	Desert	4	Lower Risk
	Warthog	Phacochoerus africanus aethiopicus	Savannah	3	Lower Risk
	White Rhinoceros	Ceratotherium simum	Scrub	2.5	Lower Risk
	Wildebeest	Connochaetes taurinus	Savannah	1.5	Lower Risk

Trivia

• African Adventure is the only Zoo Tycoon 2 expansion to not feature any new landscape feature, such as new biomes, plants, rocks, or trees.
  • This is also the only expansion pack to not receive a new music rock
  • Additionally, it is the only expansion pack to re-assign content to a new expansion. In this case, being the Jeep Stations (as well as roads and vehicle gates) and the salt lick.
  • Furthermore, African Adventure is the only expansion to have no skin variants for its animals.
• African Adventure is the only expansion in the Zoo Tycoon franchise to have an animal on its boxart be from a different expansion, which is the Fennec Fox.
• The developer notes for the unused Wanderlust disease in Extinct Animals names African Adventure as "Amazing Africa".

External links

• African Adventure - Zoo Tycoon.com
• African Adventure - Microsoft.com