Color Changing Sealion

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Color Changing Sealion

Zookeeper's Lounge

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Author: Cody Mitchell (aka codeman690 & Czar)...

Keywords: Fantasy Animal

Date released: January 15, 2004

Updated: July 8, 2026 by Jay to make frame counts and animation speeds match for all views of each animation, to link to ZT's sounds and graphics instead of having copies, to have the preferred foliage tooltip show for the female and young, to have the animal like the preferred foliage as much as any other foliage, to have the young like the same exhibit as the adults, to allow ZT to check more often if tranquilizer darts hit escaped animals, to not have the animal stand, run, or lie on top of water terrain, to have the animal make a sound when rattling inside a crate, to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines, and to fix spacing, spelling, and grammar in the animal info.

Zip size: 474 KB

Current ztd date: July 8, 2026

Compatibility: ZT, DD, MM, and CC

Description: This color fanatic sea lion was found near the Bahamas in The Bermuda Triangle. Legend says that an old wise and powerful magician cast a spell on this species of sea lion causing them to change to certain colors, but no one knows why this magician did this.

Note: This animal breeds quickly and grows up quickly. As they grow up and breed, you might need to sell the older ones every game month. Of course that is income for the zoo.

[Jay]

Additional info:

colorchangingsealion.zip: colorchangingsealion.ztd (2026 Jul 08)

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

1d51c178.uca date: Wed Jul 08 09:00:28 2026
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Animal Type: 1D51C178

Color Changing Sea Lion

This color fanatic sea lion was found near the Bahamas in The Bermuda
Triangle. Legend says that an old wise and powerful magician cast a spell on
this species of sea lion causing them to change to certain colors, but no one
knows why this magician did this.
    (plus 2 other paragraphs)

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Aquatic; Location: Pacific Ocean
Cost: 1500; Crowd number: 40
ZT Family: Seal; ZT Genus: Sea Lion
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 90
Preferred shelter: Rock Cave
Animal can swim in water terrain.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
 Cherry Tree, Maple Tree, Trembling Aspen Tree, Japanese Maple Tree
 Water Lily, Water Reed, White Oak Tree, Bald Cypress Tree (DD)
 Horsetail (DD), Sea Anemone (MM), Barnacles (MM), Beach Grass (MM)
 Brittle Sea Star (MM), Clam Bed (MM), Orange Cup Coral (MM)
 Divercate Tree Coral (MM), Feather Duster Worm (MM), Fire Coral (MM)
 Kelp (MM), Sea Lettuce (MM), Red Gorgonian (MM), Sargassum (MM)
 Sand Dollar (MM), Sea Cucumber (MM), Sea Star (MM), Seaweed (MM)
 Sea Grass (MM), Sea Sponge (MM), Stove Pipe Sponge (MM), Tube Worm (MM)
 Purple Sea Urchin (MM)

Rocks:
 Large Rock, Small Rock, Medium Rock, Medium Aquatic Rock (DD)
 Small Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Medium Coral Formation (MM)
 Large Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Medium Ocean Floor Rock (MM)
 Large Coral Formation (MM), Iceberg (MM), Isle Rock (MM)

Specifically liked shelters:
 Rock Cave

Other specifically liked objects:
 Waterfall Rock Formation

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-16 with 35 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 70 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
 52 Salt Water, 3 Grass, 4 Dirt, 5 Rainforest Floor, 6 Gray Stone

Foliage (for exhibit with 70 grid squares):
 8 grid squares should contain foliage.
 Foliage that would give the most happiness: Water Reed
 Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
 if each of the 8 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

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

Elevation: Of the 70 squares, 1 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.

[Jay]

Updated July 8, 2026 by Jay to make frame counts and animation speeds match for all views of each animation, to link to ZT's sounds and graphics instead of having copies, to have the preferred foliage tooltip show for the female and young, to have the animal like the preferred foliage as much as any other foliage, to have the young like the same exhibit as the adults, to allow ZT to check more often if tranquilizer darts hit escaped animals, to not have the animal stand, run, or lie on top of water terrain, to have the animal make a sound when rattling inside a crate, to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines, and to fix spacing, spelling, and grammar in the animal info.