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You've Already Seen 200 Animals

YOU'VE SEEN 200 SPECIES

A short from AnimalDex, from How Many Animals Have You Already Encountered?. Every claim in it comes from that page, which has the full detail and sources.

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Published 23 October 2026. AI-narrated, with motion added to some images.

Transcript

  1. 0:00YOU'VE SEEN 200 SPECIES. You've already seen up to two hundred animal species.
  2. 0:0320–40 BIRDS. Start with your garden. Twenty to forty bird species visit it every year.
  3. 0:07ZOO: 50–150. One afternoon at a big zoo? Fifty to a hundred and fifty more, in a single day.
  4. 0:11SAFARI: 40–80. A three-day safari adds forty to eighty. Lions, elephants, zebras, dozens of birds.
  5. 0:18GROUP-LEVEL ONLY. But that blurry brown bird sixty metres away? Not a species. It's a group.
  6. 0:23CAPTIVE = EXCLUDED. And birders have a brutal rule. That zoo meerkat doesn't count. At all.
  7. 0:28WILD vs ALL. The fix? Keep two numbers. Wild species, and all species. Both are yours.
  8. 0:34YOU DECIDE. So be honest. Does a zoo meerkat count as an animal you've seen?

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