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Gryphon

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Author: Dragon!

Keywords: fantasy animal, myth

Date Released: September  21, 2008
Updated July 9, 2026 by GalaxyJumper and Jay:
Changed the animal list icons to be the animal without a background, allowed the young to go over water terrain, increased the chance for the adults to go over water terrain to be consistent with ZT's tigers, allowed seeing the preferred foliage tooltip for females and young, allowed the growl animation to be seen as often as originally intended, added the standard sounds when it fights prey, made a grammatical change to the animal info, allowed ZT to check more often if an escaped animal was hit by a tranquilizer dart, and removed unnecessary files and configuration lines.

Current drGryphon.ztd date: July 9, 2026

File Size: 252 KB

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: The gryphon is a cross between a lion and an eagle.
The gryphon can now live in your zoo!

This is my first finished animal, I hope you like it!

Additional info:

drGryphon.zip: drGryphon.ztd (09 Jul 2026)

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

73be7026.uca date: Thu Jul 09 07:36:56 2026
No Errors or Warnings to show.

Animal Type: 73BE7026

Gryphon

The Gryphon is a legendary creature with the abdomen, back legs, ears and tail
of a lion and the forepart, front legs, head and wings of an eagle.
    (plus 1 other paragraph)

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Coniferous Forest; Location: Europe
Cost: 5500; Crowd number: 20
ZT Family: Fantastic Creature; ZT Genus: Wolf
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 90
Preferred shelter: Small Concrete Shelter
Animal can swim in water terrain.
Animal can jump.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
 Wild Olive Tree, Elm Tree, Pacific Dogwood Tree, Cherry Tree
 Lodgepole Pine Tree, Maple Tree, Fir Tree, Pine Tree, Bamboo
 Thornless Mesquite Tree, Yew Tree, Birch Tree, Spruce Tree, Yellow Cedar Tree
 Western Larch Tree, Trembling Aspen Tree, Globe Willow Tree
 Japanese Maple Tree, Deciduous Bush, Paper Birch Tree, Weeping Willow Tree
 White Oak Tree, Western Red Cedar Tree, Chinese Fir Tree
 Himalayan Birch Tree, Western Juniper Tree, Himalayan Pine Tree, Sage Bush
 Broadleaf Bush, Pine Bush, Club Moss Shrub (DD), Walchian Conifer Tree (DD)
 Dawn Redwood Tree (DD), Gingko Tree (DD), Glossopteris Tree (DD)
 Lepidodendron Tree (DD), Magnolia Tree (DD), Monkey Puzzle Tree (DD)
 Norfolk Island Pine Tree (DD), Bonsai (CC), Snowbell Tree (CC)

Rocks:
 Small Snowy Rock, Medium Snowy Rock, Large Snowy Rock
 Large Snowy Rock - Medium, Deciduous Forest Rock Formation
 Large Highland Rock, Coniferous Forest Rock Formation
 Medium Highland Rock (DD), Medium Coniferous Rock (DD), Highland Rock (CC)

Specifically liked shelters:
 Rock Cave, Small Concrete Shelter, Concrete Shelter, Large Concrete Shelter
 Small Wood Shelter, Wood Shelter, Large Wood Shelter

Other specifically liked objects:
 Snowy Rock Formation

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 1-8 with 20 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 40 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 40 grid squares):
 24 Coniferous Floor, 2 Dirt, 3 Grass, 3 Fresh Water, 4 Deciduous Floor
 4 Brown Stone

Foliage (for exhibit with 40 grid squares):
 4 grid squares should contain foliage.
 Foliage that would give the most happiness: Deciduous Bush
 Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
 if each of the 4 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 40 grid squares):
 7 Medium Coniferous Rock (DD), which is its most liked rock,
 and 2 Small Snowy Rock