Gannetwhale

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Gannetwhale

ZA at Tek

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Author: RSN

Keywords: fantasy animals

Originally Released Nov 9, 2003 at Zoo Admin
Updated October 27, 2025 by fern and Jay to prevent the animal causing non-English versions of ZT to crash, to remove unnecessary black lines from the purchase menu icon edges, to change the adult animal list image to an image of the animal instead of an icon, to add a separate animal list image for the young animal, to prevent the animal from disappearing when sometimes rotating the zoo, to fix grammar and spelling in the animal info and tooltip, to have the preferred object tooltip appear for the female and young, to have the female behave like the male since it uses the same graphics, to have the female and young want the same type of exhibit as the male, to have the animal like itself and user made penguins, to have the animal use animations that are actually in the ztd for times when it was not, to prevent the young sometimes switching to penguin animations, to allow tranquilizer darts to work in some situations where they were not, to prevent the animal from standing on water in some situations, to prevent the young from moving as fast as adults in some situations, and to remove unnecessary files and configuration lines.
Current gannetwhale_fixed.ztd dated 27 Oct 2025

File Size: 70.7 kb

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: With whales extinct and seals decimated, other animals have started to occupy the newly available niches. One new species that has done this is the gannetwhale. From a distance they resemble a large seal, about 14 feet long, bulky but surprisingly fast and agile swimmers. This is an evolved form of the seagulls. The gannetwhale is a giant swimmer that lives in Arctic regions, going between Europe and Antarctic in an epic migration. Gannetwhales eat fish and other little animals, like squid babies. The babies of gannetwhales are little in comparison to the size of the adult. It is white and gray. Gannetwhales are compatible with other pinniped animals, such as sea lions, walruses, elephant seals, and penguins.

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Additional info:

gannetwhale_fixed.zip: gannetwhale_fixed.ztd (27 Oct 2025): F0099057.uca (27 Oct 2025)

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

F0099057.uca date: Mon Oct 27 00:02:42 2025
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Animal Type: F0099057

Gannetwhale

With whales extinct and seals decimated, other animals have started to occupy
the newly available niches. One new species that has done this is the
gannetwhale. From a distance they resemble a large seal, about 14 feet long,
bulky but surprisingly fast and agile swimmers. This is an evolved form of the
seagulls. The gannetwhale is a giant swimmer that lives in Arctic regions,
going between Europe and Antarctic in an epic migration. Gannetwhales eat fish
and other little animals, like squid babies. The babies of gannetwhales are
little in comparison to the size of the adult. It is white and gray.
Gannetwhales are compatible with other pinniped animals, such as sea lions,
walruses, elephant seals, and penguins.

Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Tundra; Location: Antarctica
Cost: 2000; Crowd number: 30
ZT Family: Bird; ZT Genus: Penguin
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 90
Preferred shelter: Small Concrete Shelter
Animal can swim in water terrain.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
 Arctic Birch Tree (DD), Arctic Grass (DD), Arctic Bush (DD), Snowy Tree (CC)
 Snowy Bush (CC), Snowy Grass (CC)

Rocks:
 Small Snowy Rock, Medium Snowy Rock, Large Snowy Rock
 Large Snowy Rock - Medium, Arctic Rock (CC)

Specifically liked shelters:
 Snowy 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: 2-16 with 15 squares for each adult

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 30 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 30 grid squares):
 18 Salt Water, 3 Gray Stone, 9 Snow

Foliage (for exhibit with 30 grid squares):
 No foliage should be used.

Rocks (for exhibit with 30 grid squares):
 7 Small Snowy Rock, which is its most liked rock