GTA 6 wildlife — 170+ species (Game Informer), plus official stills

GTA 6 has more than 170 animal species, including sharks, whales, iguanas and macaques, per Game Informer’s cover story Reported. Rockstar’s own site names hunting and fishing in Mount Kalaga Official. New here? Start here.

Game Informer: 170+ species, Rare and Legendary tracking

• The count. Over 170 species across land, air and sea: 60+ bird types and 30+ land mammals, plus sharks, whales, rays, turtles and jellyfish, each with its own movement (Game Informer wildlife exclusive; VGC).
• Florida natives. Game Informer names flamingos, manatees, pelicans and alligators.
• Invasives. Green iguanas, cane toads, feral cats and rhesus macaque monkeys; secondary outlets add armadillos.
• Tracking. Some animals can be tracked as Rare, Discoverable and Legendary, Red Dead Redemption 2 style. Rockstar is keeping the identities of the hardest finds secret.
• Rendering. Iridescence, bioluminescence, translucency, new feather types, and fur that gets wet, matted and clumped by the environment (Kotaku).

Still unknown: the full species list, what Legendary animals are, and what (if anything) tracking or hunting pays. More: GTA 6 cover story puts more than 170 species in Leonida · kayaking, scuba and zoos · map size. The rest of this page is what Rockstar’s own stills and trailers show.

Rockstar has shown animals in its own stills, and Game Informer has now printed the 170+ species count above. Grassrivers copy names gators. Official stills put alligators, wading birds, a cougar, deer, and a Keys iguana in the frame. Trailer tape adds more. A full species list and a hunting skill tree are still not published.

Gators stay on this page because Grassrivers destination copy and Grassrivers 03 / 04 stills already put them there. We do not invent a second swamp bible. Region names live on the Leonida map. The plot paragraph lives on story. Rain and wet streets live on weather.

New from IGN’s full Rob Nelson interview (7 October) Reported

• Studying animals is one of the things Jason and Lucia can do together as “quality time,” alongside the zoo, scuba diving, parachuting and kayaking.
• Nelson: “If you take a bit of time and explore, you will be rewarded a lot”; it is “a very big map.”

Source: IGN, “GTA 6: The Big Interview”, full Rob Nelson transcript, 7 October 2026. An interview, not Rockstar copy. Regions: Grassrivers · Mount Kalaga · Leonida Keys.

What is on the official tape, as printed

Destination copy lives on rockstargames.com/VI/only-in-leonida. Stills are labeled by region on the official screenshot library. Trailer 1 and Trailer 2 are the two official videos. We do not add a species Rockstar left off those cards. We do not promote a wiki wildlife chart to a Newswire.

Extended Look already aired (27 August). The map card is the Leonida map hub. The clothes card already parked Macca on clothing. Not a hunting manual. GTA6 NOW is independent. We are not affiliated with Rockstar Games or Take-Two Interactive. We do not host leak files.

Quick answers

How many animals are in GTA 6?

Reported More than 170 species, per Game Informer’s Issue 382 cover story.

Are there alligators?

Official Yes: Rockstar’s Grassrivers stills show gators around an airboat.

Is there a zoo?

See Zoo.

Leonida map · Story · Weather · Trailers · Clothing · Watch order

Grassrivers named the gators. It did not name a swamp bible

Official Grassrivers copy, as reprinted from the May 2025 destination pages: “The untamable jewel of Leonida’s crown.” Then: you never know what lies beneath the surface of this primordial expanse. “The gators may be the most famous attraction, but there are far deadlier predators and weirder discoveries among the mangroves.” Postcard tagline: Welcome to the Wetlands. That is tourism language. It is not a spawn table.

“Deadlier predators” is Rockstar’s phrase. It is not a species. Game Informer’s 6 May 2025 read that it might mean heavily armed residents is a journalist’s aside. We will not promote that aside to a Newswire. We will not fill the blank with snakes, bobcats, or a leak-era chart.

Grassrivers 03 is live gators around an airboat. Grassrivers 04 is a muddy pickup chase with an alligator and wading birds in the same swamp. Grassrivers 01 is a dead alligator on an AIRGATOR boat. Three official pictures. One named animal in the destination copy. That is the swamp card. It is not a hunting DLC page.

Mount Kalaga stills are animals. Hunting is brochure copy

Mount Kalaga National Park is the northern official destination. Destination copy advertises hunting, fishing, and off-road trails. Game Informer treated “prime hunting, fishing, and off-road trails” as a possible minigame hint. Official text advertises those activities. It is not a feature list. We will not write a hunting rank, a bait item, or a skinning prompt because a postcard used the word hunting.

What the screenshot library actually shows: Mount Kalaga 05 is a cougar and four deer with nobody in the shot. Mount Kalaga 04 has birds and an unnamed small animal on a red-clay slope. Mount Kalaga 01 has an unnamed small animal on a slag pile. Mount Kalaga 03 is two armed men and an orange WHITEWOLF tank. That tank is metal. It is not a wolf. Do not file it on a fauna card.

The park stills are the animals card. The brochure line stays a brochure line until Rockstar prints a system.

Keys iguana, pool toys, and a TV gator

Leonida Keys 02 puts a green iguana in the street. Trailer 1’s official shot notes also list iguanas in natural areas. That is two official looks at one reptile. It is not a Keys zoo.

Leonida Keys 05 is a sandbar party with flamingo and gator floats. Those are inflatables. Cal Hampton 03 is Cal on a pink flamingo float in a tiled pool. Cal Hampton 01 is a crowned alligator statue on mini-golf turf. Tourist props are allowed to look like animals. They are not live fauna. Do not write “flamingos confirmed in that Keys still” when the still is a float.

Macca the Alligator is Ultimate store copy: the Goodtime State’s hit TV-show character. That sentence sits on the editions locker as Goodtime Gear. It is a mascot on a capsule. It is not a Grassrivers spawn. The clothes card already has that row: clothing hub.

Trailer extras stay observations

The official gameplay notes treat trailer wildlife as footage, not a manual. Trailer 1: alligators, birds, iguanas in natural areas. Trailer 2: alligators, flamingos, dolphins, seagulls, and a house-cat on an ATM. Those lines are “appears in official footage.” They are not screenshot captions. They are not a Newswire fauna dump.

Trailer 1 also puts POACH on-screen. That is a wildlife-enforcement graphic in the tape. It is not a published agency manual and not a hunting skill tree. Same rule as the wanted hub: the picture is real. The system sheet is not.

Cal’s official bio jokes that there are way too many birds flying around in perfect formation. That is a character line. It is not a flock count.

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New guides: Fishing and hunting · NPC interactions · Hunting · Zoo

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