All Animals Of The Shelter Games

[R0B0T]

If you're a little confused then let me clear this up. This is basically me just naming/keeping track of all of the animals that we've seen so far in the shelter games, and the animals of those games that have or haven't been added to meadow yet. I know that for example the fox has shown up in Shelter 2 and not just in Shelter 1, but I'm only naming the animals under the game that they first appeared in. I will not be including bugs. Tell me if I'm missing anything, I'll add it.

Shelter 1

Badger - Yes

Badger Cub - Yes

Vole - No

Frog - Yes

Fox - Yes

Eagle - Yes

Shelter 2

Lynx - Yes

Lynx Cub - Yes

Rabbit - Yes

Pheasant - Yes

Grouse - No

Deer/Musk Deer/Chamois/Goat - Yes (What is the deer species that lives in the tundra?)

Wolf - Yes

Bear - No

Arctic Fox - No

Polar Bear - No

Owl - No

Duck - No

Blackbird - No

Mammoth - No

Paws

Bear Cub - Yes

Swan - No

Bird - No (The finch like-bird. It's a finch, right?)

Fish - No

Shelter 3

Elephant - No

Elephant Calf - Yes

Tiger - No

Crocodile - No

Flamingo - No

Vulture - No

Stork - No

Gull - No

Yellow-Browed Bulbul - No

Rhino - No

Water Buffalo - No

Blackbuck - No

Barasingha - No

Indian Hare - No

Meadow

Hedgehog

[NinjaGerbil]

Concerning your questions about the Shelter 3 animals, I did a little digging for you- I was wondering what specific animals they were too, to be honest.

Water Buffalo: I'm pretty sure it is a water buffalo, as they can be found in India. Alternatively, they may be gaur? I'll need to play the game again to check.

Antelope: I can't fully remember what the antelope in Shelter 3 exactly looked like, so I currently can't confirm this, but from I do recall I think they may be blackbuck. The curly horns definitely match.

Deer: Comparing their size (to the elephants) and habitat range, I'm pretty sure they're barasingha. They might also potentially be sambar deer, or less likely, chital.

[R0B0T]

Originally posted by NinjaGerbil:

Concerning your questions about the Shelter 3 animals, I did a little digging for you- I was wondering what specific animals they were too, to be honest.

Water Buffalo: I'm pretty sure it is a water buffalo, as they can be found in India. Alternatively, they may be gaur? I'll need to play the game again to check.

Antelope: I can't fully remember what the antelope in Shelter 3 exactly looked like, so I currently can't confirm this, but from I do recall I think they may be blackbuck. The curly horns definitely match.

Deer: Comparing their size (to the elephants) and habitat range, I'm pretty sure they're barasingha. They might also potentially be sambar deer, or less likely, chital.

Thank you! This was very helpful. I'll do a little comparing myself and edit this soon. I'm much more familiar with north American animals/most canines or felines, lol.

[R0B0T]

Originally posted by NinjaGerbil:

Concerning your questions about the Shelter 3 animals, I did a little digging for you- I was wondering what specific animals they were too, to be honest.

Water Buffalo: I'm pretty sure it is a water buffalo, as they can be found in India. Alternatively, they may be gaur? I'll need to play the game again to check.

Antelope: I can't fully remember what the antelope in Shelter 3 exactly looked like, so I currently can't confirm this, but from I do recall I think they may be blackbuck. The curly horns definitely match.

Deer: Comparing their size (to the elephants) and habitat range, I'm pretty sure they're barasingha. They might also potentially be sambar deer, or less likely, chital.

Here, I saved you some time. Here are the three that you mentioned. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2511465465
And here are some birds.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2511466150

[NinjaGerbil]

Originally posted by Mystical Starz:

Here, I saved you some time. Here are the three that you mentioned. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2511465465
And here are some birds.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2511466150

Thank you, those pictures were super helpful! I can definitely confirm the antelope to be blackbuck now, the side by side comparison is pretty much identical. Additionally, now I can see the horns, the water buffalo are definitely water buffalo- gaur horns are too small and vertical to match.

The smaller waterbird picture is unfortunately a little too small/blurry for me to properly identify- I've done a bunch of googling but I can't find any matches so far. However, the long legs make it clear they're some kind of stork or heron.

The gull has the same problem as the waterbird picture, and other than the tail shape there's not much to go on. I'm guessing it was in the coast area by the "gull" label? If so, gull is probably the best guess. If it was further inland, it might be some kind of swift if it was small?

My most confident guess is the large waterbird- I'm 99% sure it's a black necked stork from the colouring and pink legs. (Not to be confused with the black necked crane.)

The little yellow bird is a tougher one- there's not many birds that are completely yellow all over. My best guess for this is a yellow-browed bulbul; so far that's the closest fit I've found. (It could also be an Indian ringneck parrot, but this is unlikely: wild ones are typically green with their namesake black neck ring, and while I have found pictures of completely yellow ones they are probably captive-bred colour mutations.)

And finally, an easy one: the rabbit is likely an Indian hare.

[R0B0T]

Originally posted by NinjaGerbil:

Originally posted by Mystical Starz:

Here, I saved you some time. Here are the three that you mentioned. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2511465465
And here are some birds.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2511466150

Thank you, those pictures were super helpful! I can definitely confirm the antelope to be blackbuck now, the side by side comparison is pretty much identical. Additionally, now I can see the horns, the water buffalo are definitely water buffalo- gaur horns are too small and vertical to match.

The smaller waterbird picture is unfortunately a little too small/blurry for me to properly identify- I've done a bunch of googling but I can't find any matches so far. However, the long legs make it clear they're some kind of stork or heron.

The gull has the same problem as the waterbird picture, and other than the tail shape there's not much to go on. I'm guessing it was in the coast area by the "gull" label? If so, gull is probably the best guess. If it was further inland, it might be some kind of swift if it was small?

My most confident guess is the large waterbird- I'm 99% sure it's a black necked stork from the colouring and pink legs. (Not to be confused with the black necked crane.)

The little yellow bird is a tougher one- there's not many birds that are completely yellow all over. My best guess for this is a yellow-browed bulbul; so far that's the closest fit I've found. (It could also be an Indian ringneck parrot, but this is unlikely: wild ones are typically green with their namesake black neck ring, and while I have found pictures of completely yellow ones they are probably captive-bred colour mutations.)

And finally, an easy one: the rabbit is likely an Indian hare.

Okay, I did some research and I think that the ''Gull'' is either a Sabine's Gull or a Swallow Tailed-Gull. It was slightly inland, but gulls do migrate inland if there's a storm at sea, which would explain the huge storm near the end of the game. The bird was white and on the larger side, which isn't exactly the build of a swift. But there's one problem... Some species of gulls are known to migrate to India, but I'm not sure if these species are. If it wasn't a gull then my best guess would be an Indian Swift.

Sometime after I posted the photos I looked up ''Hares in India'' and obviously the Indian Hare popped up, lol.

The waterbirds... Yeah, I assumed that they were some kind of Stork/Crane/Heron. But I still don't understand why M&D said vultures would be in Shelter 3 when I've yet to see any, the same goes for the bears. They might only be located in one area that I haven't explored yet, that's my best guess.

I don't mean to bug you about the ''Barasingha''... But do you that that's what they are? Also, I just wanted to thank you for helping me research on these animals.

[NinjaGerbil]

Originally posted by Mystical Starz:

I don't mean to bug you about the ''Barasingha''... But do you that that's what they are? Also, I just wanted to thank you for helping me research on these animals.

I did a little more reading into them and apparently I checked their habitat range but not their population? I am dumb, wow

Thanks for pointing this out. While they are native to the same areas as asian elephants and other species on this list, unfortunately they're currently super endangered and can only be found in a handful of their previous habitat ranges. This doesn't take them completely out of the game, but it does make it less likely that's what MaD were going for.

That leaves sambar deer and chital.

Sambar are a little more bulky than the deer in-game- the does do match up, so no problem there, but google "sambar deer stag" and you'll see that the stags have thick necks and kinda shaggy manes, unlike the stags you see when playing. They also have a darker colouration and longer tails, but the tails might be lowkey laziness on MaD's part as the models are identical to Shelter 2's deer.

Chital match up pretty well from the colouration, but are a bit smaller than sambar. Stags are only about 90cm tall at the shoulder, so I'm not sure if they match the height of the deer in-game?

[R0B0T]

Originally posted by NinjaGerbil:

Originally posted by Mystical Starz:

I don't mean to bug you about the ''Barasingha''... But do you that that's what they are? Also, I just wanted to thank you for helping me research on these animals.

I did a little more reading into them and apparently I checked their habitat range but not their population? I am dumb, wow

Thanks for pointing this out. While they are native to the same areas as asian elephants and other species on this list, unfortunately they're currently super endangered and can only be found in a handful of their previous habitat ranges. This doesn't take them completely out of the game, but it does make it less likely that's what MaD were going for.

That leaves sambar deer and chital.

Sambar are a little more bulky than the deer in-game- the does do match up, so no problem there, but google "sambar deer stag" and you'll see that the stags have thick necks and kinda shaggy manes, unlike the stags you see when playing. They also have a darker colouration and longer tails, but the tails might be lowkey laziness on MaD's part as the models are identical to Shelter 2's deer.

Chital match up pretty well from the colouration, but are a bit smaller than sambar. Stags are only about 90cm tall at the shoulder, so I'm not sure if they match the height of the deer in-game?

Found this off of Wiki. ''The swamp deer differs from all other Indian deer species in that the antlers carry more than three tines. Because of this distinctive character it is designated bārah-singgā, meaning "twelve-horned" in Hindustani. Mature stags usually have 10 to 14 tines, and some have been known to have up to 20.'' The deer in the photo has nowhere near 10 tines. Like you said, this could just be them being lazy, but I'm not sure anymore. I don't think it's a Sambar Deer, the colors are what lead me to believe that most. It might be a Chital, but I'm not 100% sure on that. There's also the Brow-Antlered Deer... Which is pretty unlikely, the antlers don't match at all and they're also an endangered species with a small range. I wish we could ask the developers somehow.