Rockstar gave the number in Game Informer’s issue 382: over 170 species, among them more than 60 kinds of birds and more than 30 land mammals. Native Florida animals such as flamingos, manatees, pelicans and alligators share the state with green iguanas, cane toads, feral cats and rhesus macaques, which Florida also has in real life.
Some animals are categorized as Rare, Discoverable and Legendary and can be tracked. Rockstar keeps their names to itself for now. The studio also says the fur, feathers and skin build on its work in Red Dead Redemption 2, down to iridescence, bioluminescence and translucency.
IGN reported earlier that you can study animals at the zoo or in the wild and that each species you find is checked off a list, as in Red Dead Redemption 2. Dogs can be petted, or scolded. Where the zoo is, Rockstar hasn’t said. Animals get their own section of the database after release.
The whole list of what Rockstar said is in our article on the animals of Leonida.
