Animal Respawn and destroy need zone

[RoomHobby]

Hi guys, how are you all right?
Playing cotw I am focusing on some need areas to look for the various diamonds but I have not understood some things. For example when I kill an animal, when does it respawn? Respawn in the same group where he was killed?
Another aspect that I noticed is that even though I killed with the tripod, and the stain was dark, the need zone is still gone and I don't understand why. I thought need zones only disappeared when they turned bright red

[JeDagelijkseIntrovert]

From what I understand, are the following things:

1. Animals mostly respawn within a day(~1 hour in-game), but up to 6 days
   
2. Animals can respawn in any region that's eligible for it
   
3. Animals won't always return to the same group, but may choose the closest available need zone and merge with a herd that already is present there, if there is any.
   
4. Need zones disappear if all animals from that need zone group are killed

You are correct that the need zones will disappear once it gets bright, but I keep forgetting the actual amount you can kill with a tripod, ground blind or tree stand as I barely need to kill more than 3.

By default, need zones disappear by 4 kills.
With hunting stands, if I remember correctly, it's 14, but don't recall me on that.

Edit:
I also believe the region animals spawn in, is affected by the amount of need zones present within that area.

[Nightwalker]

A replacement animal will spawn sometime within 6 days. It may or may not spawn onto the same pathway used by the animal you killed. Sometimes it will use the same need zone as the animal it replaced and sometimes it won't. All we know for sure is that the replacement will be of the same species and gender.

The popular opinion is that if you kill the only animal using a need zone then you destroy the need zone. I know for a fact that if a weed tells me one deer is eating or resting at that spot and I kill it then that glowing weed is going to vanish. Other glowing weeds that might be nearby will not be effected. Some need zones can encompass an area over 100 meters in size.

[RoomHobby]

Yet I find no confirmation with my experience ... let me explain better. I am currently in vuronga hunting gemsbok and blue wildbest. During the gemsbok hunt there were two need zones nearby and there were at least 30 specimens, yet once about 8 prey were killed the zone disappeared completely .... I would like to understand how to control the zones so that I don't have to go to always look for new areas ...

based on the information you have given me, I wonder if I have to do it in the same map or in other maps such as the yukon etc.

Originally posted by Nightwalker:

A replacement animal will spawn sometime within 6 days. It may or may not spawn onto the same pathway used by the animal you killed. Sometimes it will use the same need zone as the animal it replaced and sometimes it won't. All we know for sure is that the replacement will be of the same species and gender.

The popular opinion is that if you kill the only animal using a need zone then you destroy the need zone. I know for a fact that if a weed tells me one deer is eating or resting at that spot and I kill it then that glowing weed is going to vanish. Other glowing weeds that might be nearby will not be effected. Some need zones can encompass an area over 100 meters in size.

Originally posted by INFP-T Slagroompje:

From what I understand, are the following things:

1. Animals mostly respawn within a day(~1 hour in-game), but up to 6 days
   
2. Animals can respawn in any region that's eligible for it
   
3. Animals won't always return to the same group, but may choose the closest available need zone and merge with a herd that already is present there, if there is any.
   
4. Need zones disappear if all animals from that need zone group are killed

You are correct that the need zones will disappear once it gets bright, but I keep forgetting the actual amount you can kill with a tripod, ground blind or tree stand as I barely need to kill more than 3.

By default, need zones disappear by 4 kills.
With hunting stands, if I remember correctly, it's 14, but don't recall me on that.

Edit:
I also believe the region animals spawn in, is affected by the amount of need zones present within that area.

[JeDagelijkseIntrovert]

It is very well possible that the group of 30 animals were split into different groups for need zones and such thing is only possible to know through the tracking skill "Track Knowledge 2".
This is something you will have to memorize once you get the information, however can really throw you off if multiple groups use the same zone.

Personally I have never seen a gemsbok group larger than 12, with the most common numbers being 6 to 8.

And yes, the previous replies applies to every reserve

[Geronimo]

A zone can seem to disappear if it is moved by a few yards when it becomes associated with a different species.

To learn how zones are associated with specific species is key to hunting in this game.