All animals (except the dinosaurs and Meiolania) appear to give live birth, regardless of species, even though some of them lay eggs in real life.
Green sea turtles can’t go on land in game, but can in real life and in the sequel.
The sequel eventually gave some of the dinosaurs that returned more fitting biomes.
Several of the dinosaurs require terrain types that would have been impossible for most of them to live in, such as deciduous forest and grass.
Meiolania was almost certainly not a tundra animal Australia during the Miocene (when the largest species of Meiolania live) never had a polar climate.
In reality (and in the sequel in the case of the former) they were desert-dwelling animals.
Velociraptor and Gallimimus are portrayed as living in coniferous forests.
Most Theropod dinosaurs are shown with an upright stance and pronated hands, both of which were impossible for the real animals.
This would have been impossible as Tyrannosaurus lived during the Cretaceous period, whilst Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus were both Jurassic dinosaurs whose real natural predator was Allosaurus.
The fact-files of Tyrannosaurus rex, Apatosaurus and Stegosaurus state that the former is a natural predator of the latter two.
Caudipteryx is stated to live in the Jurassic Period, when it actually lived in the early Cretaceous period.
Woolly mammoths, giant ground sloths and woolly rhinos are thought to have been able to kill saber-toothed cats in real life, but in the game the saber-toothed cats will eat them.
Carnivorous animals are unable to form packs to hunt larger animals, and herding animals are unable to form groups to protect themselves from predators.
This would later be fixed in Zoo Tycoon 2, where all of said animals do display sexual dimorphism.
Ostriches, Red Kangaroos, Ibexes, Markhors and Thomson’s Gazelles do not display sexual dimorphism, and as a result both the males and females look identical.
This was fixed in the sequel, despite only the flamingo returning and not the anteater.
Both the Greater Flamingo and Giant Anteater are fed hay, when in reality they would eat shrimp and insects, respectively.
Herbivores are not coded to fight back against carnivores that can hunt and eat them, even if they would have been able to in real life, such as buffalo and certain dinosaurs.
Many animals that are capable of interbreeding in real life cannot do so in the games.
Multiple animals perfectly capable of swimming if the need arises in real life are unable to in these games.
Various animal lifespans are inaccurate.
In some cases certain animals are larger than animals they would be smaller than in real life.
Many of the animals are inaccurately sized, often being larger or smaller than they would naturally be.
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