Use a Poison Throwing Knife and wait for a while for the animal to stop. If you have alerted an animal, however, there is a way to make it stop reacting without killing it. In both cases, it will be impossible for you to study them.

In fact, some may even attack you once they are aware of your presence, while others will simply run away. As some animals are more aware of their surroundings than others, it's safer to study them from a distance. You can also study them from greater distances with the binoculars or a scoped rifle. To study an animal, you need to aim at it and press the R1/RT button on your controller. Studying AnimalsĪll animals in Red Dead Redemption 2 can be studied, including missable ones in Guarma and Legendary Animals too. Still, you should skin them as the obtained items can be used to craft talismans and trinkets which unlock some useful permanent perks for your character. Legendary Animals, on the contrary, don't count at all toward progression for either trophy/achievement. These don't need to be studied or skinned to get any of the two trophies, but count toward progression so you can skip some of the regular animals if you do. The animals in Guarma are easy to miss, since there is no way to get back on Guarma via regular means after completing the first few missions in Chapter 5. To unlock the first, the only thing you need to do is study all animals, while you also need to skin them to unlock the second. Make sure to also hunt at night to find some nocturnal species.įinding all animals is needed to unlock two different trophies/achievements, Zoologist and Skin Deep. This area is called Bear Claw, and it's located in New Austin to the southwest of Manzanita Post. If you cannot find a specific animal, there's a good hunting spot where a lot of different animals spawn, including birds, that can only be reached after completing the game. Doing this will reset the current spawn chance and the animals available all over the map will change.

Try using Herbivore and Predator Baits as needed, and if the animal you are looking for doesn't appear, leave the area, make camp and sleep for some time. This means that certain animals only have a chance of appearing in select locations.Īs spawning is randomized, there's no way to make a certain animal appear in its spawn area. Animals spawn in specific locations on the map in Red Dead Redemption 2, not counting extremely common animals like rabbits and deer which are seen pretty much everywhere.

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