Animals [SA2]

There are seven groups of animals, and each group has three animals. You can give animals to your Chao to alter its personality, its looks and to increase its stats. When you give a Chao an animal, it will embrace it, and attain its appearance, abilities, and behaviour. The animal will disappear shortly after you give it to a Chao.

The animals are found hidden throughout the levels, usually in locked cages that you must destroy or in small pipes scattered around the stages (that you have to whistle at). You can also find them in the robots created by Dr. Eggman such as the bomb-throwing monkeys, or the robots that look like E-102 Gamma. You can only carry up to ten animals or Chaos Drives at a time.

“Bring the animals into Chao garden and all Chao will be happy!”

The four common animal colours — yellow, purple, green, and red — all raise the primary stats: Swim, Fly, Run, and Power, respectively. They also influence the Chao to evolve into the corresponding type.

The other three colours — blue, gold, and black — influence the Chao to evolve into a random type.

Note!

On the modern games, all animals raise the Chao’s Luck and Intelligence stats slightly. However this is not true for the Dreamcast version, where those stats are rasied with the use of the Chao Adventure 2 mini-game.

Dreamcast

These are the general stat changes for each animal when given to a Normal Type Chao. The amount of stats animals raise or decrease change depending on the Chao’s type, and how much of a stat they have. The full details of this is still being researched.

StatNameNameSwimFlyRunPowerLearnt Behaviour
SwimOtterOtter+4.4-0.4+0.8-1.6Chao performs the backstroke when swimming
SwimPenguinPenguin+3.6+1.2+0.8-2.4Chao slides on its belly
SwimSealSeal+4.0-1.6-+0.8Chao rolls around
FlyCondorCondor+2.0+6.0-2.4+1.6Chao does sit-ups
FlyParrotParrot-+4.8-2.0+0.4Chao sings
FlyPeacockPeacock+1.2+4.8-1.6-1.2Chao lies down and poses
RunCheetahCheetah-0.8-0.8+4.0+0.8Chao scratches its face
RunBoarBoar-0.4-1.2+3.2+1.6Chao dashes forward
RunRabbitRabbit-+0.8+4.0-1.6Chao hops about
PowerBearBear+0.8-1.6+0.4+3.6Chao attempts sumo wrestling
PowerGorillaGorilla-0.4-0.8+0.4+4.0Chao beats on its chest
PowerTigerTiger-0.8-1.6+2.0+3.6Chao sharpens its nails on a tree
RandomRaccoonRaccoon+2.0+1.2+0.4+0.8Chao wags its tail
RandomSheepSheep+0.8+1.2+2.0+2.0Chao performs forward rolls
RandomSkunkSkunk+0.8+1.2+1.2+0.8Chao farts
MythicalDragonDragon+2.0+0.4+0.8+3.2Chao breathes fire
MythicalPhoenixPhoenix+1.2+3.2+0.4+1.6Chao shakes its tail and wings
MythicalUnicornUnicorn+1.6+1.2+3.6-Chao does backwards somersaults
GhostBatBat+0.8+4.0+0.8+0.8Makes the Chao’s legs disappear
GhostHalf FishHalf Fish+3.2-+0.8+2.4Turns the Chao’s emotion ball into a flame
GhostSkeleton DogSkeleton Dog+0.8+0.8+3.2+1.6Removes animal parts from the Chao, and allows hats to be worn

Modern

The non-Dreamcast version of the game always give the same amount of stats no matter what.

StatNameNameSwimFlyRunPowerLearnt Behaviour
SwimOtterOtter+4.4-0.4+0.8-1.6Chao performs the backstroke when swimming
SwimPenguinPenguin+3.6+1.2+0.8-2.4Chao slides on its belly
SwimSealSeal+4.0-1.6-+0.8Chao rolls around
FlyCondorCondor+2.0+6.0-2.4+1.6Chao does sit-ups
FlyParrotParrot-+4.8-2.0+0.4Chao sings
FlyPeacockPeacock+1.2+4.8-1.6-1.2Chao lies down and poses
RunCheetahCheetah-0.8-0.8+4.0+0.8Chao scratches its face
RunBoarBoar-0.4-1.2+3.2+1.6Chao dashes forward
RunRabbitRabbit-+0.8+4.0-1.6Chao hops about
PowerBearBear+0.8-1.6+0.4+3.6Chao attempts sumo wrestling
PowerGorillaGorilla-0.4-0.8+0.4+4.0Chao beats on its chest
PowerTigerTiger-0.8-1.6+2.0+3.6Chao sharpens its nails on a tree
RandomRaccoonRaccoon+2.0+1.2+0.4+0.8Chao wags its tail
RandomSheepSheep+0.8+1.2+2.0+2.0Chao performs forward rolls
RandomSkunkSkunk+0.8+1.2+1.2+0.8Chao farts
MythicalDragonDragon+2.0+0.4+0.8+3.2Chao breathes fire
MythicalPhoenixPhoenix+1.2+3.2+0.4+1.6Chao shakes its tail and wings
MythicalUnicornUnicorn+1.6+1.2+3.6-Chao does backwards somersaults
GhostBatBat+0.8+4.0+0.8+0.8Makes the Chao’s legs disappear
GhostHalf FishHalf Fish+3.2-+0.8+2.4Turns the Chao’s emotion ball into a flame
GhostSkeleton DogSkeleton Dog+0.8+0.8+3.2+1.6Removes animal parts from the Chao, and allows hats to be worn

SA2 Small Animals

Coco the Mascot Chao