Disney's Animal Kingdom to soon offer animal guides

The Empress Lilly

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I'm actually pretty excited about these guides. It would totally enhance my visit. More fun too than my occasional visits to Wikipedia to check up on some of the animals.

If there is such a thing as the opposite of declining by degrees, this is it.
 

The Duck

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These could have come in handy for a friend who had visited DAK 5 times and didn't know that there were any animals there. His running gag was "There are no animals in Animal Kingdom!". He would admit that he saw animals on KS but he completely missed both animal trails plus walked right past the exhibits in The Oasis. The ironic thing is that this guy is also a huge fan of zoos.
 

Coolneal

Member
They used to have a animal section in the mobile magic app. You had to select Animal Kingdom>more>animals... When they updated the app it's now gone. They had all kinds of great info... What and how much the eat... Where they are found/rarity. I used it on my last trip... Not sure why they removed it.
 

yoda_5729

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It's been a week since these were reportedly offered at the parks? Has anyone seen them or taken pictures, as I'm very interested in what they look like and the animals featured. :)
 

The Empress Lilly

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I wouldn't mind seeing them too! They only last until the end of November!

I would of course be even more obliged if anybody would be so kind as to snailmail me one...:oops:
 

KevinYee

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I didn't know to look for them yesterday, but when I went into DAK, I did glance at the souvenir guides to see if the design was different, and it wasn't. Nothing caught my eye. This is no guarantee of anything, of course, but I have some small degree of confidence that it wasn't on display at 1pm Sunday at all. The main thing I do in the parks is LOOK for new stuff, so I hope I would have noticed. Still, anything is possible, especially because I wasn't informed going on to watch for it.
 

Kuhio

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I snagged a couple of these animal guides when I was at DAK last week -- I only saw them at one of the merchandise locations in Africa, near the exit to the Kilimanjaro Safaris (likely Mombasa Marketplace).

The guide is a single sheet, printed on both sides, of the same dimensions and on the same kind of paper as the parks' times guides.

The guide lists each of the areas of the park, along with small graphic icons and the names of the animals that can be found in the area. For example, the "Africa" section has the headings "Kilimanjaro Safaris" and "Pangani Forest Exploration Trail," and below each heading there are small square icons and the names of the animals that can be seen on the safari and the trail, respectively (e.g., addax, African elephant, African lion, etc. for the safari; African bullfrog, African cichlid fish, African pancake tortoise, etc. for the trail). Amusingly, Tyrannosaurus Rex is one of the animals listed for DinoLand U.S.A.!

There are no text descriptions of any of the animals, and the only images are tiny silhouettes/outlines in the icons. These do help with regard to animals whose names don't make it immediately obvious what type of creature the animal is (fish, bird, reptile, etc.), but otherwise don't help much with the animals' coloration, size, or the like.

On the whole, the animal guide seems to be helpful primarily as a general checklist for people who want to be sure they don't miss seeing any of the animals available in each area of the park. It's also a nice, free -- and possibly limited edition -- souvenir for those of us who obsessively collect such things.
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Longhairbear

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Hmmm....sounds a bit underwhelming then. Okay-ish and all, but not quite what I had hoped for.

Hang on to them - they sound like a killer collector item in the making!
We have 2 of the old ones they sold years ago. They are pamphlet sized full color booklet with both plants, and animals, with descriptions of each. There was a place to mark off the ones you saw, or found.
 

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