FarmVille Zoo Habitat: Everything you need to know

It may not be Wednesday, or even Sunday, but that hasn't stopped Zynga from updating FarmVille this evening with the launch of the third animal breeding building in what will eventually be a series of six. This newest building is the Zoo, and while that may sound a lot like a Wildlife Habitat, this Zoo instead allows you to store and breed some animals that you'd expect to see in Zoos, like Elephants, Bears, Penguins, Lions, Kangaroos and more. If anything about that list is exciting, it's that we'll finally be able to store those massive Elephants and reclaim all of that space on our land!

The Zoo must be built from scratch, just like the others, but you very well may have these items in your inventory already, as they've been used in other building projects before:

    10 Wrenches
    10 Pipes
    10 Shrubs


Once that's done, you'll have a new building that can store up to 20 of the above animals (again, there are 12 pages of available animals to store; this was just a slight preview), and you'll even be given a free Elephant upon completion.

From here, the Zoo works similarly to the other breeding habitats that have been released previously, in that you'll be able to collect from the Zoo once daily for a chance at either Animal Feed or a Rare / Common Mystery Baby. These babies come in round baby baskets, with yellow standing for common babies and blue standing for rare babies. Again, as usual, the common babies take just 10 Animal Feed to grow into adulthood, while rare babies take 30 Animal Feed.

Of course, there are also some goals available to complete along with this new building, and we'll make sure to give you a guide to finishing those goals as soon as possible you can check out our complete guide to completing those goals right here.

Check out the rest of our FarmVille Cheats & Tips right here.

What do you think of the Zoo building? Were you hoping for the Aviary first, or are you happy to finally have a place to store bigger animals like Penguins and Elephants?

FarmVille Zoo Mystery Box helps you fill your new Zoo Habitat

If you don't already have 20 animals that are ready to be placed inside your new Zoo Habitat in FarmVille, or you're just looking to add new (well, re-released) critters to your overall animal collection, why not take a look at the Zoo Mystery Box that's been released in the store this evening? This Box contains six animals that can all be stored inside the Zoo Habitat and therefore bred, but of course, the animal that you receive will be random (that is, a random animal of the six).

For 20 Farm Cash, you can purchase a single Zoo Mystery Crate, which will contain one of the following:

Amur Leopard
White Kangaroo
Chinese Dragon
Red Panda
Caiman's Lizard
Rainbow Panda

This Zoo Mystery Box will only be available for the next five days, so while you may be tempted to purchase six of these boxes to be done with it (and have a full set of animals), keep in mind that duplicates are possible, and there's no telling just how many boxes you'll need to actually purchase before it's all said and done. Good luck if you're going for one specific animal of the six, or if you'd like a complete set without breaking the bank!

Which of these six animals is your favorite? Do you already have some of these animals on your farm?