Zoo Tycoon/Inaccuracies


 * Ankylosaurus may have been able to kill Tyrannosaurus in real life, but the Tyrannosaurus will eat the Ankylosaurus in the game.
 * Giant anteaters can kill jaguars in real life, but the jaguar will eat the anteater in the game.
 * Packs of spotted hyenas can eat a lion in real life, but the lion will eat the hyenas no matter how many hyenas are added to the fight in the game.
 * Packs of gray wolves can eat a grizzly bear in real life, but the bear will eat the wolves, no matter how many wolves are added to the fight in the game.
 * Herds of Triceratops may have been able to kill a Tyrannosaurus in real life, but the Tyrannosaurus will eat the Triceratops no matter how many are added to the fight in the game.
 * Megatherium, Mammuthus and Coelodonta may have all been able to kill Smilodon in real life but the Smilodon can eat them all in the game.
 * Stegosaurus may have been able to kill Allosaurus in real life, but the Allosaurus will eat the Stegosaurus in the game.
 * Giant anteaters and greater flamingos don't eat hay as the game shows. Anteaters eat insects while flamingos eat small aquatic life.
 * Meiolania may not have been able to swim, and they don't live in tundra environments as the game shows.
 * Ostriches can kill lions in real life, but the lion will eat the ostrich in the game.
 * Warthogs can kill leopards, but the leopard will eat the warthog in the game.
 * Herbivores cannot "eat" guests, other animals and staff, they can only kill. (Sometimes when a herbivore kills a staff member, the message panel will say the herbivore has "eaten" the staff member)
 * Black bears, clouded leopards, leopards, mandrill and olive baboons can climb in real life, but can't do so in the game.
 * Green sea turtles can go on land in real life, but can't do so in the game.
 * Velociraptor and Gallimimus live in desert environments, but live in coniferous habitats in the game.
 * Tyrannosaurus could not eat Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus (as said in the animals information file), as they lived at different times.
 * Siberian tigers, Bengal tigers, and White Bengal tigers belong to the same species. (They are classed as the same species in the animals information file but can't interbreed in the game).
 * Leopards and black leopards belong to the same species. (They are classed as the same species in the animals information file but can't interbreed in the game.
 * Arctic wolves, gray wolves, and Mexican gray wolves belong to the same species. (They are classed as the same species in the animals information file but can't interbreed in the game).
 * Caudipteryx didn't live in the Jurassic. (As said in the animals information file). They lived in the Cretaceous.
 * The "harbour porpoise" is actually a Dall's porpoise in the game.
 * Greater flamingos can fly in real life, but can't do so in the game.
 * Ostriches cannot jump, as they do in the game
 * Giant pandas are not raccoons. (As said in the animal editor).
 * Emperor penguins cannot kill other animals, unless the animals in question are small fish or invertebrates. (The only animals in the game that can be categorized as such would be bluefin tuna, this was an easter egg).
 * None of the dinosaurs would have had a lot of grass as grass was very rare when they were around.
 * Emperor penguins, greater flamingos, saltwater crocodiles and ostriches do not give live birth, as they do in the game.
 * Jaguars, Lambeosaurus, Spinosaurus, and black bears can swim in real life, but can't do so in the game 	.
 * Coelodonta and Megatherium aren't thought to have been not easy prey for Smilodon. (As said the animals information file).
 * Megatherium, Macrauchenia, Mammuthus, Smilodon, Meiolania, Plesiosaurus and Loch Ness monsters are not dinosaurs. (As said in the animal editor).
 * Pterosaurs aren't birds.
 * Velociraptor, baby Tyrannosaurus and Gallimimus may have had feathers.
 * Plesiosaurus cannot raise its neck above the water or move around on land, as they do in the game. Also, it lays eggs in the game, when it gave live birth in real life.
 * Spinosaurus's skull was shaped more like a crocodile's, not like an Allosaurus's as in the game. Also, new discoveries in 2014 shown it was mostly aquatic, its hindlegs were much shorter and it had a kink in the middle of its sail.