Wild Kingdom

A Survivalist’s Guide to Kyrat’s Bloodthirsty Fauna

Asian Elephant

Attitude: Depends on equipped skills

Health: 4

Damage: 5

True, the Asian elephant is smaller than its African relative, but that’s pretty much like being the second-largest aircraft carrier in the fleet. These lumbering titans exist almost independently from the world, part animal and part force of nature. At the start of the game, elephants are happy to ignore you as long as you don’t get too close (so do not get too close). But once you learn the Elephant Rider skill, they become your personal walking, stomping, trunk-lashing battle tanks, as speedy as a stampeding wildebeest and as durable as a cement truck.

Rare Specimen: Thick Skin

Asian Rhino

Attitude: Defensive

Health: 5

Damage:5

Amazingly, one could argue that rhinos are even more dangerous than elephants, because of their dual tendencies to appear in groups of two or three and charge like a raging bull at anyone or anything that gets too close. Their steely hide enables them to shrug off even more damage than an elephant, and they can flip vehicles faster than a rocket-powered bulldozer. (Which can be good or bad, depending.)

Rare Specimen: Karkadann

Assam Macaque

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage:Nil

This tiny primate is one of very few animals in Kyrat that can’t kill you—unless someone tapes a proximity mine to its back, that is.

Beehive

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage:3

Most of the time, beehives are harmless. But on that rare occasion when someone puts a bullet in the hive, knocking it down? It’s like a thousand tiny knives stabbing you all at once.

Bengal Tiger

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 3

Damage:4

A clawed-and-fanged cruise missile in orange and black, the tiger rules the wilds of Kyrat and fears nothing: not rhinos, not elephants, and certainly not you. If you even think there’s a tiger around, throw bait and a land mine, in that order, then grab your biggest gun and stand back.

Rare Specimen: Sky Tiger

Bharal

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage:Nil

A gentle mountain goat that seems out of place in Kyrat’s savage biome. And we love it for that.

Various Birds

With one notable exception, the birds of Kyrat are blessedly harmless. They also hold little value, though you’ll need to bag and skin one of each to unlock their entries in King Min’s Kyrat Guide.

Black Eagle

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 1

Damage:3

Throughout most of the world, eagles are content to rule the skies in peace, soaring upon the winds and peering down upon the world with goodwill toward all creatures other than rodents and possibly fish or other small birds, depending upon species. But in Kyrat? Those feathery bastards want you dead so they can pick your bones like vampire vultures.

Clouded Leopard

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 2

Damage:3

Let’s get this out of the way: Yes, the clouded leopard looks like a big, fuzzy, kitty. But it behaves like a fur-covered buzzsaw with a penchant for serial murder.

Rare Specimen: Shadow Leopard

Demon Fish

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 2

Damage:3

Hey, remember that cartoon you saw where the people ran from the bees or the tiger or whatever and jumped into the river? In Kyrat, that is a terrible idea. Demon fish might not be actual demons, but don’t tell them that. It’ll only make them even madder.

Rare Specimen: Black Water Dragon

Dhole

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 1

Damage:1

“Hey, look! It’s a pack of wild puppies! Come here, little guy! Let me pet yAAAUGH! IT BIT ME! AHH! SO DID THAT ONE AND—OWW!—NOW THEY’RE ALL RUNNING AND BITING ME AND I CAN’T FOCUS AND AAAAAGUGUUUUGHHH….”

In other words, don’t pet the dholes.

Rare Specimen: Tenzin

Dog

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 1

Damage:1

In contrast to the dhole, the guard dog is not wild. That said, it’s not exactly tame, either—unless your definition of “tame” includes using your liver for a chew toy. But you can’t really blame the pooch. If your natural habitat was hanging around with Min’s corrupt soldiers, you’d be itching to maul someone too.

Himalayan Brown Bear

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 4

Damage:5

The brown bear may look slightly less imposing than its darker-furred relative, but it’s actually even more dangerous. Because regardless of color, a bear is still a bear. Which means it’s actually a thousand-pound professional wrestler with massive clawed paws, a vicious bite, and the strength of, for lack of a better comparison, an angry bear.

Honey Badger

Attitude: Defensive

Health: 3

Damage:2

The bravest and craziest creature in all of Kyrat, the honey badger charges fearlessly into battle, utterly unconcerned with the fact that it’s barely the size of a small dog. Other animals kill you with size, or claws, or teeth, or strength in numbers. But the honey badger can take you down with nothing but attitude and tenacity. Underestimate it, and it’ll put you in the ground.

Rare Specimen: Gulo

Jalapura

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1 

Damage: Nil

The most elusive non-rare creature in Kyrat. Watch for it skittering across rocks or in caves.

Malayan Tapir

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage: Nil

Poor tapir. Somebody has to be the lowest member of the food chain, and these helpless fellows are it. The only way a tapir can cause you harm is if you happen to be near a herd of them when a leopard or a pack of wolves springs an ambush, then turns on you. Which, come to think of it, could totally happen because tapirs are walking bullseyes for those guys. Yeah, forget what it says above. Tapirs are dangerous.

Mugger Crocodile

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 3

Damage:4

You probably won’t see many of these aptly named lurking horrors as you journey through Kyrat, but consider that a blessing. Because when you actually do see a mugger crocodile, there’s a very good chance he saw you first. And that tends to end badly.

Pig

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage:Nil

Harmless and ham-filled, these gentle farmyard creatures run wild in Kyrat. This is somewhat ironic considering the Kyrati people are all vegetarians.

Pit Viper

Attitude: Defensive

Health: 1

Damage:2

You’ll hear a pit viper long before you see it. In fact, there’s a good chance you’ll even get bitten by a pit viper long before you see it. Luckily, the poison is mild, which makes this ropey green cheap shot artist more of an annoyance than a threat.

Rat

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage:Nil

Of course Kyrat has rats. Every civilization on Earth has rats. Thankfully, Far Cry 4 is not a decade-old MMO, so you can ignore them instead of spending the next 20 hours of your life killing them.

Red Crowned Turtle

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage:Nil

These tortoise-like reptiles draw into their shells at the slightest hint of danger. Which, considering this is Kyrat, makes one wonder how they ever get anything done.

Sambar

Attitude: Passive

Health: 1

Damage: Nil

Gentle and graceful, sambar are peaceful forest creatures who stand as glorious proof that it is possible to remain pure and decent in this harsh and unforgiving wilderness.

Unfortunately, their skins also make a darn good explosive bag, so you’re going to want to whack a few.

Snow Leopard

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 3

Damage:3

The snow leopard is larger and lighter in color than the clouded leopard, and sticks to cooler climes and higher altitudes.

Those are the differences. The similarities include an absolute devotion to murder and a possible taste for human flesh.

Tibetan Wolf

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 2

Damage:2

Bears are bigger, and tigers are flashier, but there’s a reason wolves are the apex predator in many parts of the world: teamwork. They hunt in packs and take turns, chasing, attacking, and resting in shifts until their exhausted prey collapses from exertion and blood loss. Then, without bothering to administer a killing blow, the wolves begin their feast.

At least, that’s what they do with a moose. For something as small as a person, they’ll probably skip the chase part.

Rare Specimen: Mad Devil

White-Chested Bear

Attitude: Aggressive

Health: 4

Damage:4

Here’s a little-known fact: bears are omnivores. That means they can and will eat almost anything—including nuts, berries, honey, fruit, edible roots and twigs, carrion, and you. And by the looks of things, Kyrat is running a bit short on nuts, berries, honey, fruit, edible roots and twigs, and carrion.

Rare Specimen: Ghost Bear

Wild Boar

Attitude: Defensive

Health: 2

Damage:2

How do you tell a wild boar from a regular pig? For starters, wild boars have longer bristles. Plus, wild boars are always light gray. And finally, wild boars will not hesitate to lay you out with the two long, sickle-shaped tusks that jut from their jaws like bone daggers. So there’s that.

Yak

Attitude: Defensive

Health: 3

Damage:3

You wouldn’t think an animal that looks like a melting carpet and moans like your uncle the day after a bender would pose much of a threat. Then again, you’ve never been eye-to-eye with a ground-shaking stampede of melting carpets, have you?