find and collect wild animals?

[Mythical Ostrich]

I got this quest but I have no idea where they might be or how to grab them

[Grandma]

If it’s the “Everyday Predator” quest they are generally walking around on the street by where the quest starts. When I got this quest, the predator I clicked was a white wolf looking thing, that was walking on the street. I had to click it a couple of times to get it to register.

If it’s the one where you have to collect so many of a certain kind of animal you just have to look around the area for the requested animal, then click them to collect.

[Kukla]

You can buy many animals from indian lady

[Fex]

On the left border of your screen you should see the quest.
Left click it. It moves your camera to the spot where you should search for them. Or near the island they are on.
They should be hightlighted in blue (blue border around the animal) when you see them. Then just hover over it and left click.

[shoki]

You can also click on the quest name in your quest log and it tells you more details about where they are in that grey box with the questionmark icon infront of it.
E.g. "The wild animals are living in the mountains of your island" or "The wild animals are walking through the streets of your city"

Pretty helpful for some quests e.g. if the target is a special building like the church.

[strykerpsg]

I am stuck on this one currently. Matter of fact, have reinstalled hoping to find it, no dice.

Ultimately I do not believe it does anything for the game, but could be wrong.

[narf03]

click on the quest it will move your camera to the area, then you zoom in and search, you can pause the game while searching.

[Rexton]

wild animals can be wolfs walking around in ur village on the roads or it can be find bears and wolfs those are mostly on mountains or cliffs

[Rooter]

It seems to glitch out every now and then.
There is no issue with failing the quest

[Prioress]

There are SPECIFIC bears and wolves (2bears/2wolves/hibernation) to click on that are highlighted (for me at least) in a light blue. I found them at the edges of the island who's lighthouse was the focus for the quest. But they are clear out in the open, once you know where to look. So I would look around the outskirts of the island, from the ocean looking into land, and see if you can find it there.

There are bears/wolves that roam the island that you CANNOT click on, that was interesting. :)

[ARKYmouse]

I keep getting this questline and every time, the animals never appear. Not near or far away from the target farm house. It just bugs out 100% of the time. The only indirect advice I've seen to "fix" the problem is to reduce render distance (which requires a restart of the entire game, as if the bug itself wasn't a nuisance).

EDIT:
It gets better. You lower your render distance? And then the jump-to action on your quests is disabled. And still no wild animals. Figures.

[Musical Jacob]

Originally posted by ARKYmouse:

I keep getting this questline and every time, the animals never appear. Not near or far away from the target farm house. It just bugs out 100% of the time. The only indirect advice I've seen to "fix" the problem is to reduce render distance (which requires a restart of the entire game, as if the bug itself wasn't a nuisance).

EDIT:
It gets better. You lower your render distance? And then the jump-to action on your quests is disabled. And still no wild animals. Figures.

This is an ooooold thread from 2019. Why not make a new one? Your bug is not the same issue OP had from TWENTY NINETEEN.

That said, verify your install. Then delete all your trees on your island and see if the animals are easier to spot.
I'm not invalidating your struggles but for what it's worth, I have 2k hours logged into the game and never once had an animal quest bug out on me. They are always damn somewhere.

And after you have 1mil in the bank, it's rarely ever worth dealing with these puzzle quests anyway.

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Musical Jacob:

Originally posted by ARKYmouse:

I keep getting this questline and every time, the animals never appear. Not near or far away from the target farm house. It just bugs out 100% of the time. The only indirect advice I've seen to "fix" the problem is to reduce render distance (which requires a restart of the entire game, as if the bug itself wasn't a nuisance).

EDIT:
It gets better. You lower your render distance? And then the jump-to action on your quests is disabled. And still no wild animals. Figures.

This is an ooooold thread from 2019. Why not make a new one? Your bug is not the same issue OP had from TWENTY NINETEEN.

This is the #1 result of google. There is no reason not to point out this has been an issue since launch.

your advice doesn't apply, you didn't even bother realizing which quest he is talking about.