About AnimalDex
A living research world of real animals
Catch animals in real life and turn them into AI companions in a 3D world.
AnimalDex starts with a real animal you meet: in the wild, at a zoo, in a garden or at home. Photograph it, and the app identifies its species and turns it into a companion you can talk to. One of its kind comes aboard the Ark, a shared 3D world anyone can open in a browser.
Right now 3,211 animals of 952 species live aboard, brought by 647 people.
A world to watch, not a game to win
The Ark is a shared simulation of animal species. There is no level to beat and nothing to grind: animals arrive, eat, raise young, grow old and die, and populations rise and fall over time through the seasons and through food chains drawn from each animal's field guide.
You follow what happens to the animals you brought, and to everyone else's, in one world that is the same for everybody.
Nature from an animal's point of view
Every animal in AnimalDex answers from its own life: what it eats, what hunts it, how it raises young and how its kind gets through hard times. Talking with one is a way into how that species meets the world.
On the Ark, each animal has a life story: where it came from, where it lives, the young it raised and how its life went.
Built from field guides, said honestly
Each of AnimalDex's 2,600 animals has a field guide: its habitat, diet, lifespan, breeding and behaviour. The Ark turns those fields into rules, keeps the exact words each food link came from, and labels any estimate it makes when a guide is silent.
It is not a scientific model. The rules are simplified so one shared world can run for everyone, and the Ark's numbers describe what happens aboard, not how many of any animal live in the wild. Who is aboard is whoever people have photographed, so its mix of species is not nature's.
What the Ark shows, and what it doesn't
The Ark shows species, counts, life stories and who brought each animal, by @username. People under 18 and accounts without a username appear as Voyagers. Where anyone captured an animal, and what anyone talks about with their companions, is never shown.
Who makes AnimalDex
AnimalDex is made by GHOSTSEED LTD, a company registered in England and Wales. The app is free to download on iPhone and Android, and the Ark is free to open on the web.