3,213 animals of 952 species aboard, brought by 647 founders.
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Capture an animal with AnimalDex and one of its kind comes aboard, up to a pair for each person. Then talk with it about something real in your life: every step it suggests that works keeps your animals of that kind thriving.
About the Ark
The Ark is one animal world that everyone shares and sees the same way. It is a simulation you can look around in 3D: tap an animal to meet it, follow it, or read its life story.
Right now 3,213 animals of 952 species live aboard. Its world has two islands: a wild one with regions from the open ocean to the polar ice, and a town with houses, farms and a zoo.
Nobody places an animal by hand. When someone captures an animal with AnimalDex, one of its kind comes aboard, up to a pair for each person, and stays. Talking with an animal about something real in your life and trying the step it suggests keeps your animals thriving: each step that works puts them in better condition. The Ark shows species and counts; where an animal was captured and what anyone talked about are never shown.
Each species' life on the Ark is based on its field guide in AnimalDex: what it eats, how many young it has and how long they take, when it is awake, whether it lives alone, in pairs or in groups, and how long it lives in the wild.
A predator eats only animals its field guide names as food, or a group they belong to, such as birds, and takes the animals in the weakest condition first. Two adults of a kind raise young when there is food, at most one litter per breeding period: animals in prime condition breed every period, ordinary ones less often. Animals with a known wild lifespan grow old, and a hunter that stays hungry too long starves. One Ark year passes every 14 real days.
The rules are simplified so that a small shared world can run. The Ark is a simulation built from each animal's field guide, not a scientific model.
Every species on the Ark, the most numerous first, with how many are aboard. See them over the Ark
Understand the Ark
The Ark runs on rules built from each animal's field guide. These pages explain them in plain words.
Food links from each animal's field guide, between the animals aboard right now. Tap one.
4 aboardSee it in the Ark
Its field guide: “Rodents”
See the whole food chain Built from each animal's field guide in AnimalDex. It is not a scientific model.
