Play 1 Animal (or 2 Animals if on side II)

You have 3 different Action cards to play Animals (yellow tiles). Each of these Action cards applies to a specific habitat (Rock , Forest , or Water ). You can only play an Animal with the Action card that has the same habitat as the Animal. An exception to that are Animals with the “undefined” habitat, indicated by this icon: . You can play such an Animal with any of the 3 Animals Action cards.

To play an Animal from your hand, the strength of the matching action must be at least as high as the level of the Animal tile. Then place the Animal tile on your Zoo map (on an empty space next to either another tile or your zoo entrance). If the Animal requires one or more Open Areas, place it adjacent to existing Open Areas and/or place additional tiles from your hand face down as Open Areas on your Zoo map.

If placing an Animal tile and/or Open Area triggers effects (one-time effects, ongoing effects, or placement bonuses on the Zoo map), you may perform them in any order.

If you use this action to place an Animal next to an Animal with the same name (i. e., the female Animal next to the male Animal or vice versa), you immediately receive 1 Conservation marker.

You may only play 1 Animal per action with side I of the Action card. If you have already upgraded the Action card, you may play 2 Animals (instead of just 1) from the corresponding habitat and/or with a . However, the strength of the action must be at least as high as the sum of the levels of both Animals to do that. Play and place these Animals in your zoo one after the other.

IMPORTANT: Always carry out all effects that you trigger by playing the first Animal before you play the second Animal.

EXAMPLE – PLAYING 1 ANIMAL TILE: You play the female Nile Crocodile into your zoo. To do this, you need a Water Animals action with strength 4 or more, since the Nile Crocodile is an Animal with a Water icon (A) and is level 4 (B). The Nile Crocodile needs an Open Area in your zoo. To create one, you play another tile from your hand face down as an Open Area where the Nile Crocodile needs it (C). After you have placed both tiles, the effects of the Nile Crocodile and the Herpetologist are triggered.

You receive 2 effects for playing the Nile Crocodile: the one-time effect of the Nile Crocodile (D) and the ongoing effect of the Herpetologist (E). If you receive multiple effects at the same time, you can always choose in which order you want to perform them. In this case, both effects let you draw any 1 tile from the display, so you may draw 2 tiles in total.

EXAMPLE – PLAYING 2 ANIMAL TILES: You want to use one of your upgraded Action cards to play 2 Animals into your zoo. The Capybara and the Goat are both level 2 (A), so you need an action with strength 4 or more to be able to play both Animals.

The Goat’s habitat is “undefined” (B), so you could play it with any of the 3 Animals actions, but the Capybara is a Water animal (C). You can therefore only play these two Animals together with the Water Animals action (D). Conveniently, this action currently has a strength of 4.'

You first play the male Capybara next to the female Capybara already in your zoo. Since you have managed to place a pair of animals of the same species directly next to each other (E), you receive 1 Conservation marker .

Then you play the Goat next to the Alpaca already in your zoo.