How to play The San Diego Zoo Presents: The Animals! on Mac

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Game summary

Breakthrough video-with-sound technology in The Animals! lets you see and hear over 200 exotic mammals, birds, and reptiles in over 60 minutes of video clips. Using movies, sounds and stories, The Animals! also brings you the most complete and up-to-date information about our animal neighbors from experts at the world-renowned San Diego Zoo. If you love animals, you'll love The Animals! It's fun and easy for children and adults to explore the vast resources of The Animals! Clicking on the habitat map takes you instantly to the animals that live in one of the earth's major climate zones including: tropical forests, deserts, savannas, or tundra. Climb aboard the multimedia tour bus for a narrated tour of Animals in Disguise, Fact or Fable, and Jaws, Claws and Creature Features. In the Storybook Theater, you'll hear fascinating animal stories such as Raising Gordy Gorilla, Protecting Endangered Species, and Wild Safari.
First released: Sep 1993

Play The San Diego Zoo Presents: The Animals! on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play The San Diego Zoo Presents: The Animals! on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

The San Diego Zoo Presents: The Animals! installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install The San Diego Zoo Presents: The Animals! like you would on any PC.
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