GTA 6 animals: every species seen so far

Animals Rockstar has shown

These are visible in Rockstar's own material: the two trailers, the Extended Look, the screenshots on the official site and the cover art. The American alligator is the star. One wanders into a convenience store in Trailer 1's social-feed montage, gators circle an airboat in the Grassrivers screenshots, and a hunting party poses with a dead one next to a dead wildcat.

The best wildlife shot is from Mount Kalaga National Park: a cougar creeping up on a herd of deer at a stream, which is the image at the top of this page. Predators hunting prey on their own suggests an ecosystem closer to Red Dead Redemption 2 than to GTA V, but that is our reading. Rockstar has not described how wildlife behaves.

More detail is due soon. Game Informer says its GTA VI cover story, in the digital issue out September 29, covers a "staggering amount of wildlife", native and otherwise, on land, in the air and at sea. reported We will update this page then. What the magazine has announced so far is on the Game Informer cover story.

Where to find animals in Leonida

What you can do with animals

• Pet, scold or study. Postmode's recap of the Extended Look reports a Pet, Scold and Study menu on a dog (hold R1). When Jason pets one, a small angel icon appears, a sign that some background stat changed. reported Whether that is the Criminal Profile, the relationship or something else has not been explained.
• Track species. IGN's preview, as KeenGamer recapped it, says animals can be studied and the game tracks newly discovered species. reported GTABase, a fan database, describes it as a checklist filled at the zoo or in the wild, much like Red Dead Redemption 2's Compendium. rumor
• Feed dogs. GTABase also says you can buy dog treats at convenience stores. No outlet has repeated it. rumor
• Hunt. Rockstar's screenshots show hunters in the Mount Kalaga woods and gator hunters on airboats. official Vice's preview summary says hunting is tied to one of Jason's contacts and pays. reported More on hunting in GTA 6.
• Fish. Previews compare fishing to Red Dead Redemption 2 in detail, but you release every catch because fish cannot be carried. reported More on fishing in GTA 6.
• Visit the zoo. A zoo is in the game and a zoo trip counts as a date, per previews. See the zoo and how dates work. reported

Rockstar has not shown a pet you keep or a dog companion like Chop from GTA V. All of the side activities that involve animals are on our list of everything you can do in GTA 6.

Official, reported and fan-spotted

Official means the animal is visible in Rockstar's trailers, screenshots, artwork or the Extended Look. Reported means a credible outlet saw it in official footage but Rockstar has not called it out. Fan-spotted sightings come from community databases and fan frame-by-frame work. Species labels like "bobcat or Florida panther" for the wildcat are fan readings too, and they sit in the Real-world basis line of each entry.

The manatee is a special case. Fan recap site Postmode spotted one printed on Jason's shirt in the Extended Look, suggests it is Leonida's symbolic animal and a sports team mascot, and says some manatees also appear in the water later in the video. Postmode is the only recap we found that mentions live manatees, so they stay unconfirmed here until a second source or a clear frame backs it up. Rockstar has since put a cartoon manatee, Chunkee the Manatee, on a shot glass in its $399.99 Collector's Box official, so the manatee is an official Leonida motif, but that says nothing about live manatees in the game.

Every animal, with sources

Each entry shows where the animal was seen and links its sources. Use the chips to hide fan sightings.

Keep reading

• Mount Kalaga National Park: forests, hunting and trails.
• The Grassrivers: Leonida's gator-filled wetlands.
• Everything you can do in GTA 6, from fishing to scuba diving.
• The Criminal Profile, the reputation system that tracks how you play.
• The full Leonida map.