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Red Wolf (ZTU)

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Author: Martijn

Keywords: real animals

Originally released: December 2001 at Zoo Tycoon Unlimited (Belgium)

Slight update and released: May 2003 at Zoo Admin

Current ztu_redwolf.ztd date: 24 Nov 2025

Updated: November 24, 2025 by Jay to change the animation for when the animal is idle in water to not be standing on the water, to make minor changes to the English animal info, to add German for those with German ZT since the translation was available in another version, to link to ZT's sounds instead of copies, to add all of the configuration needed to allow it to swim on water terrain, to change the main habitat to Deciduous Forest to match the tooltip and main terrain, to change the location to North America to match the animal info, to show the preferred object tooltip for females and young, to not have the young jump since there is no young jumping animation, to have the animal be indifferent to itself and other canines so that it is not happy when there are too many animals in the exhibit, to play sounds when the animal is picked up and put down, to increase the opportunities for ZT to see if the animal was hit by a tranquilizer dart, to play sounds at times when it was not playing sounds but should have, and to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines.

Zip size: 1.23 MB

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: Part of the ZTU Collection.

This was one of the first user-created animals. The red wolf loves deciduous terrain and lots of trees and wants a lot of friends. More information included when you click on the Info button in the game.
This was also released at Zoo Admin after ZTU closed.

Additional info:

ztu_redwolf.zip: ztu_redwolf.ztd (24 Nov 2025): 915e8047.uca (24 Nov 2025)

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

915e8047.uca date: Mon Nov 24 22:40:48 2025
No Errors or Warnings to show.

Animal Type: 915E8047

Red Wolf

Created by Martijn Aikema
Former Webmaster of Zoo Tycoon Unlimited


As a species, the red wolf (Canis rufus) is lucky to be alive! Originally it
ranged throughout much of the eastern United States, from as far north as
Pennsylvania and New York to as far west as Texas. Things started to go
drastically wrong for the red wolf in the early 20th Century. Predator control
programs took heavy tolls on both the red wolf and its close relative, the
gray wolf. But through a captive breeding program the animal is saved.
    (plus 5 other paragraphs)

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Deciduous Forest; Location: North America
Cost: 1500; Crowd number: 20
ZT Family: Canine; ZT Genus: Wolf
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 90
Preferred shelter: Rock Cave
Preferred ZT shelter allowing any animal without hack: Small Concrete Shelter
Animal can swim in water terrain.
Animal can jump.
Animal can climb cliffs.

Exhibit Preferences:

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

Rocks:
 Large Rock, Small Rock, Medium Rock, Deciduous Forest Rock Formation
 Coniferous Forest Rock Formation, Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)

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

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-20 with 35 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 70 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
 38 Deciduous Floor, 7 Fresh Water, 7 Grass, 18 Coniferous Floor

Foliage (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
 14 grid squares should contain foliage.
 Foliage that would give the most happiness: Spruce Tree
 Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
 if each of the 14 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
 11 Small Rock, which is its most liked rock

Elevation: Of the 70 squares, 2 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.