A cougar stalks a herd of deer drinking from a stream in Mount Kalaga National Park, official GTA 6 screenshot

src Rockstar captionRockstar Games

A cougar stalks a herd of deer drinking from a stream in Mount Kalaga National Park, official GTA 6 screenshot.
Confirmed
25
Unverified
17
Promised
170+

T-17 days · Nov 19

Every GTA 6 animal Rockstar has caught on camera

25 animals are confirmed for GTA 6 so far: 17 seen in official images, 8 named in Game Informer's or Edge's preview. 17 more come only from GTABase's list and stay unverified. Game Informer says Leonida will have over 170 species.

Checked against Rockstar's material on October 28, 2026 by Lorenzo Bruno. GTA 6 is out November 19, 2026.

Seen in official images

Each capture keeps its strip: who showed the animal and where. Open one for every frame and source.

Three mud-covered people pose on an airboat in the Grassrivers with a dead alligator and a wildcat, official GTA 6 screenshot

src Rockstar captionGrassrivers

Bobcat

Rockstar's caption says wildcat; GTABase identifies it as a bobcat. It lies dead on an airboat seat behind a dead alligator.

A cougar stalks a herd of deer drinking from a stream in Mount Kalaga National Park, official GTA 6 screenshot

src Rockstar captionMount Kalaga

Cougar

Confirmed: seen in official material

A man on an ATV with a scoped rifle on his back watches two deer at a shallow stream, GTA 6 screenshot from Game Informer

src Game Informer screenshotPlace not named

Deer

Confirmed: seen in official material

A brown dog jumps up on a man who strokes it, with Pet, Scold and Study prompts on screen, frame from the GTA 6 Extended Look at 2:00

src Extended Look, 2:00Place not named

Dog

Confirmed: seen in official material

A wetland at sunrise with a stag wading, a white crane with a red crown, a pink spoonbill, an alligator on the bank and ducks, GTA 6 screenshot from Game Informer

src Game Informer screenshotPlace not named

Duck

Ducks sit in the water of Game Informer's wetland screenshot.

Two scuba divers swim over a coral reef in the Leonida Keys with an eel and a sea turtle, official GTA 6 screenshot

src Rockstar captionLeonida Keys

Eel

Named in Rockstar's caption of two scuba divers over a coral reef in the Leonida Keys.

A flock of flamingos takes off and wades in a marsh, with pale wading birds and ducks, frame from GTA 6 Trailer 1 at 0:20

src Trailer 1, 0:20Place not named

Flamingo

Confirmed: seen in official material

Close-up of a large green iguana by a road with a roundabout sign behind it, frame from the GTA 6 Launch Trailer at 0:21

src Launch Trailer, 0:21Place not named

Green Iguana

Confirmed: seen in official material

Rays and a school of small fish swim above a scuba diver in an underwater cave, frame from the GTA 6 Extended Look at 17:18

src Extended Look, 17:18Place not named

Manta Ray

Confirmed: seen in official material

Dirt bikes and an ATV tear through the mud in Mount Kalaga while a small animal runs in the bottom left corner, official GTA 6 screenshot

src Official screenshotMount Kalaga

Raccoon

A small animal runs in the corner of Rockstar's Mount Kalaga dirt bike screenshot; GameSift and GTABase read it as a raccoon.

Two scuba divers swim over a coral reef in the Leonida Keys with an eel and a sea turtle, official GTA 6 screenshot

src Rockstar captionLeonida Keys

Sea Turtle

Confirmed: seen in official material

Two gulls on a sidewalk in front of a cartoon mural, one with its wings raised, frame from the GTA 6 Extended Look at 17:08

src Extended Look, 17:08Place not named

Seagull

Confirmed: seen in official material

A tattooed man lying back in a chair holds a pale snake, frame from the GTA 6 Launch Trailer at 0:58

src Launch Trailer, 0:58Place not named

Snake

A man holds a pale snake in the Launch Trailer at 0:58, and Jason and Lucia keep a snake in a terrarium in their safehouse, as RENZI points out from the trailers. The species is not identifiable; GTABase files it as a corn snake.

A wetland at sunrise with a stag wading, a white crane with a red crown, a pink spoonbill, an alligator on the bank and ducks, GTA 6 screenshot from Game Informer

src Game Informer screenshotPlace not named

Spoonbill

A pink bird with a spoon-shaped bill takes off on the left of Game Informer's wetland screenshot.

A wetland at sunrise with a stag wading, a white crane with a red crown, a pink spoonbill, an alligator on the bank and ducks, GTA 6 screenshot from Game Informer

src Game Informer screenshotPlace not named

Whooping Crane

A tall white crane with a red crown stands in the water of Game Informer's wetland screenshot.

Frame not saved yet

src Edge screenshotPlace not named

Shark

A hammerhead shark swims between rocks in one of the Rockstar screenshots in Edge's cover story, and Rockstar's Michael Kane told Game Informer players will meet several shark species.

Named, not shown yet

Game Informer's and Edge's previews name these, partly quoting Rockstar's Michael Kane, but no official frame shows them yet: cane toad, cat, rhesus macaque, pelican, pigeon, jellyfish, manatee and whale.

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GTA 6 animals: questions

How many animals are in GTA 6?

Game Informer says Leonida will have over 170 animal species across land, air and sea, including more than 60 kinds of birds and over 30 land mammals. 42 have been identified so far; 25 of them are confirmed by Rockstar's own images or Game Informer's preview. All species found so far

Which animals has Rockstar confirmed in GTA 6?

Seen in official images: American Alligator, Bobcat, Cougar, Deer, Dog, Duck, Eel, Flamingo, Green Iguana, Manta Ray, Raccoon, Sea Turtle, Seagull, Snake, Spoonbill, Whooping Crane, Shark. Named in Game Informer's or Edge's preview without an image yet: Cane Toad, Cat, Rhesus Macaque, Pelican, Pigeon, Jellyfish, Manatee, Whale.

Where does the number of 170 animal species come from?

From Game Informer's GTA 6 cover story, written after Rockstar's preview. Game Informer also says several of the species have never appeared in a Rockstar game before.