Animals

Species in the Game

Species	Missions	Reserves	Video
Alpine Ibex	Missions
American Black Duck	Missions
Arctic Fox	Missions
Bighorn Sheep	Missions
Bison	Missions
Black Bear	Missions
Blacktail Deer	Missions
Bobcat
Brown Bear	Missions
Canada Goose	Missions
Cottontail Rabbit	Missions
Coyote	Missions
Dall Sheep
European Rabbit	Missions
Feral Goat
Feral Hog	Missions
Gadwall	Missions
Grey Wolf
Grizzly Bear	Missions
Mallard Duck	Missions
Moose	Missions
Mule Deer	Missions
Northern Pintail	Missions
Pheasant	Missions
Polar Bear
Red Deer	Missions
Red Fox	Missions
Red Kangaroo	Missions
Reindeer	Missions
Rock Ptarmigan
Rocky Mountain Elk	Missions
Roe Deer	Missions
Roosevelt Elk	Missions
Sitka Deer	Missions
Snowshoe Hare	Missions
Turkey	Missions
Whitetail Deer	Missions
White-tailed Ptarmigan
Wild Boar	Missions
Willow Ptarmigan

Attraction Zones and Roaming

This article is based on this developer post in the game forum.

• Animals do not wander aimlessly through the EHR. Each species have different goals during different times of the day.
• Attraction areas attract the animals to suitable areas for completing their needs.
• The needs are: Feeding, Drinking & Resting. Species X may for instance choose to drink at 9am while spieces Y prefers to drink at 5pm.

Animal Vision

This article is based on this and this developer thread in the game forum and subsequent developer posts.

Field of View

• The animal's view originates in the actual eye placement.
• The direction of the eyes are always in the direction of the head and not the general direction of the body (although these two are often the same).
• A creature's FOV is not two-dimensional (humans e.g. have 180 degrees FOV in the horizontal plane, but only 100 degrees in the vertical plane).
• Every animal has a certain vertical and horizontal FOV.
  • The vertical FOV is set to about 90-100 degrees for most animals.
  • Herbivores such as deer tend to have a huge FOV (about 310 degrees horizontal), so even though it's head may be facing away it may still be able to detect you unless you are in it's rather tight 80 degree blind-spot.
  • This means that following the head direction is more of an issue when hunting carnivores such as bears and coyotes that have a tighter field of view.
  • The reasoning why herbivores have such an insane FOV while predators do not is that a huge FOV is advantageous when trying to detect creatures that want to eat you while these hungry beasts have a greater advantage of binocular vision that helps them conduct that very same business.
  • Tighter FOV means more overlap between the vision field of each eye which in turn contributes to better binocular vision and binocular vision is vital when trying to measure the distance to your dinner in preparation for that final leap.
• The biological reasoning behind limited VFOV is that most ground-based animals have no natural reason to monitor the world above them at all time.
  • It makes sense for a deer to keep an eye on the horizontal plane where wolves and other predators lurk, but there are not that many natural threats that may attack from above.
• The exception to this rule are birds that tend to have a more extreme VFOV.
• The effect of the tighter VFOV is felt in treestands, towers and natural elevated positions which offer better visual camo, especially when animals are close to the players position.

Player Detection

• An animal can partially spot a player.
  • The more an animal can see of a player the increased chance the animal will spot and react.
  • Other factors are involved, such as distance and probability.
• Vision detection considers if the player rotates (without movement) or changes stance.
• It does simulate that movements/rotations may be seen with peripheral vision while if the player is standing still the field of view for spotting the player is narrower.
• Animals do not detect the loading of weapons, the charging of stands, etc.
• Animals detect camera movements like walking, running, changing stance and looking around.
• Only fast camera rotations count as movement. If you are careful and look around slowly you increase your chance of not being detected.
• Movement speed effects the probability of detection. For instance the chance of detection when running is twice that of when walking.
• A rule of thumb is to move slowly and stay behind solid objects as much as possible.
• Animals can detect movements in freelook mode.

Animal Basics Video

File:TheHunter BASICS - Animals

Related Topics

• Animal Scoring - how species are scored for competitions and leaderboards
• Animal Spawning Facts - how animal spawn on the maps
• Animal Weights - list of the maximum weights of all animals
• Harvest Value - including the single components that make up this value
• Animal Fur Variations - all animal rares and fur variaions
• Non-Typical Antlers - see what deer species can appear with non-typical antlers
• Super Rare Animal Gallery - "once in a lifetime" animal findings
• Reserves - what animal appears where
• Permitted Ammo - what ammo can be used for what animals
• Hunting Tactics - how to go about successfully hunting the different species

Permitted Ammo

Compound	Recurve	Crossbow	.50 Con.	.45-70	.405	.340	9.3x74R	.50 Lead	.454

Compound	Recurve	Crossbow	.50 Con.	.45-70	.405	.340	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R
7mm	8x57 IS	.50 Lead	.454

Arrows	.50 Ball	.50 Con.	.45-70	.405	.340	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm
30R	8x57 IS	.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7x64	7-08 HP	.50 Lead	.454	.45
.308 Hand	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug

Arrows	.50 Ball	.50 Con.	.45-70	.405	.340	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm
30R	8x57 IS	.303	.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HP	.50 Lead
.454	.45	.308 Hand	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug

Arrows	.50 Ball	.50 Con.	.45-70	.405	.340	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm
30R	8x57 IS	.303	.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HP	.50 Lead
.454	.45	.44	.308 Hand	10mm	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug

Arrows	.50 Ball	.50 Con.	.45-70	.405	.340	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm
30R	8x57 IS	.303	.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HP	7-08 HV
.50 Lead	.454	.45	.44	.308 Hand	10mm	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug

Arrows	.50 Ball	.50 Con.	.45-70	.405	.340	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm
30R	8x57 IS	.303	.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HP	7-08 HV
6.5x55	.30-30	.270	.50 Lead	.454	.45	.44	.308 Hand	10mm	10ga Slug
12ga Slug	16ga Slug

Arrows	.50 Ball	.45 Sab.	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm	30R	8x57 IS	.303
.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HP	7-08 HV	6.5x55	.30-30	.270
.45 Cop.	.45	.44	.308 Hand	10mm	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug

Arrows	.50 Ball	.45 Sab.	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm	30R	8x57 IS	.303
.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HP	7-08 HV	6.5x55	.30-30	.270
.243	.45 Cop.	.44	.308 Hand	10mm	.357	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug	10ga Buck
12ga Buck	16ga Buck

Arrows	.50 Ball	.45 Sab.	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm	30R	8x57 IS	.303
.308 Rifle	.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HP	7-08 HV	6.5x55	.30-30	.270
.243	.223	.45 Cop.	.44	.308 Hand	10mm	.357	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug
10ga Buck	12ga Buck	16ga Buck

Arrows	.50 Ball	.45 Sab.	.300	9.3x62	9.3x74R	7mm	8x57 IS	.303	.308 Rifle
.30-06	.30-06	7.62x54	7x64	7-08 HV	6.5x55	.30-30	.270	.243	.223
.17HV	.45 Cop.	.44	.308 Hand	10mm	.357	10ga Slug	12ga Slug	16ga Slug	10ga Buck
12ga Buck	16ga Buck

Arrows	Bolts	.50 Ball	7-08 HV	.243	.223	.17HV	.357	10ga Buck	12ga Buck
16ga Buck

Arrows	Bolts	7-08 HV	.243	.223	.17HV	.357	10ga Buck	12ga Buck	16ga Buck

Arrows	Bolts	.50 Ball	.223	.357	.22	.17HV	10ga Bird	12ga Bird	16ga Bird
20ga Bird

Arrows	Bolts	.357	.22	.17HV	10ga Bird	12ga Bird	16ga Bird	20ga Bird

Arrows	Bolts	.22	.22 Air	.17	10ga Bird	12ga Bird	16ga Bird	20ga Bird

Halloween

Bolt	.308	Slug