Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure

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

Zoo Tycoon 2: African Adventure is the 2nd expansion pack for the video game Zoo Tycoon 2. Developed by Blue Fang Games, work for the game 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 more realistic herding behaviors, and there are predator and prey behaviors between species. This expansion is the 1st to include live food in the form of lizards that are enrichment items for carnivores. There is a campaign scenario that will unlock a set of desert-themed objects if it is completed.

Animals

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

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, in this case being the Fennec Fox.
• The developer notes for the unused Wanderlust disease in Extinct Animals name this expansion "Amazing Africa".

External links

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