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Cryptozoologist

Cryptozoologist

You unlocked all animals for use in Director Mode... or did you?

How to unlock the Cryptozoologist achievement in Grand Theft Auto V - Definitive Guide

To complete this achievement, you'll need to collect all land and air peyote plants located across the map.

To find the locations of said plants, I recommend the following video from GTA Series Videos:


The whole processes can take anything between one and three hours.

Note: if a plant is missing, dying once should resolve the problem, but don't explode any dinghys near the locations, they will keep the area loaded and consequently the plant will not reappear. (this, which I believe is a glitch, happened to me three times in the X/S version).

Credits: MC Mokkasyn's comment.
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06 May 2023 23:20

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For me the game says that there are 22 animals I can use in Director Mode.

Edit: It unlock after going into director mode and then picked one of the animals to walk around. So Wild Animal is not needed, even it can be used in Director Mode.
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By KGI KlikoNL on 29 Dec 2023 11:22
Got 3 animals left to unlock, I've done most of the Peyote Plants on old gen (PS4) then transferred my progress over to Xbox Series S. The animals I have left to unlock are Cormorant, Shepherd and Wild Animal. I followed the video from GTA Series Videos but the ones where he gets those animals, the peyote plants are not spawning for me so if anyone on Xbox Series can help me out with this please. Would be greatly appreciated.
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By JSA 345 on 12 Jul 2023 13:41
You don't need all peyote plants, you only need 21 land & air plants as you cannot use any underwater animals in the Director Mode.
Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox One)Secret AchievementThe Secret Achievement achievement in Grand Theft Auto V (Xbox One) worth 379 pointsContinue playing to unlock this secret achievement
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By MC Mokkasyn on 29 Aug 2023 23:01
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To unlock all the animals for Director Mode you need to get all peyote plats that are on land (you do not need to get the ones that are underwater, as those animals are not in Director Mode). That is a total of 21 plants.

You can easily find the plants on http://gta-5-map.com/ (select the peyote plant icon on top - light blue with a circle on it). Look at the screenshot to see if a plant is on land or underwater.

After this you need to play as one of these animals in Director Mode.
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17 Feb 2016 00:00

To unlock an animal in Director Mode, you must find and eat a peyote plant scattered across all of San Andreas and play as that animal once.

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06 Jan 2016 00:00

There are 21 Animals that count for this trophy and the way you unlock animals in Director mode is through the "Peyote" Collectible. 6 of these 27 that do not count, which are the underwater peyotes. After you are sure you have the full list go into Director mode as an Animal Actor. Trophy will pop. Here is a list of animals that count - 

- Cat
- Chickenhawk
- Cormorant
- Crow
- Hen
- Pigeon
- Rabbit
- Seagull
- Boar
- Cow
- Coyote
- Deer
- Husky
- Mountain Lion
- Pig
- Poodle
- Pug
- Retriever
- Rottweiler
- Shepherd
- Westy 

Here is a video guide for all 27 Peyotes (credit to GTA Series Videos): 
 
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In order to unlock all the animal characters, you must collect 21 of the 27 available Peyote Plant collectables located around Los Santos. The remaining 6 "Sea" located plants are not required for this achievement. Once you collect a plant, you will experience a brief moment as different animals. You can either play these experiences out (often last 10-15 seconds) or hold right on the  to immediately end the experience. Below is a video showing the location and full experience of all 27 plants. You do not have to collect plants #1, #5, #14, #19, #23 & #26 from the video as they're located underwater as mentioned.

Video credits: GTA Series Videos

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To unlock all the animals, you need to collect all the hallucinogenic plants.
Video - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ua40xeNOs

There is no need to collect underwater plants, only land ones (that is, in total you need to collect 21/27 plants).

For the trophy to drop, you need to go into director mode and select any animal from the list.

PS. Don't be alarmed that there will be 21/22 animals on the list. That's how it should be (reference to trophy description)
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15 Sep 2015 21:19

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here is a video showing all the lafafors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKy2jltSnT4
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By theVAFT on 02 Feb 2016 11:06
Regarding 21 animals out of 22: the twenty-second animal is Bigfoot (Bigfoot), you can get it by eating a special peyote cactus, which appears in a certain place only under certain conditions (Tuesday morning, snow, completed last one mission)
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By Charles_Siberian on 24 Sep 2015 10:21
AgressorN7 - there are 27 animals, but only 21 of them get into the director mode. So far, it seems that no one has compiled a list of cacti that are not required for the trophy.

The trophy is annoying in the sense that some of the cacti are quite difficult to find, even with a map.
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By Charles_Siberian on 22 Sep 2015 07:18
Well, actually there are 27 animals on the list, not 22.
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By AgressorN7 on 21 Sep 2015 15:02
If the achievement does not come, then you need to select the animal in Director Mode/
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By Evil-Mikey on 25 Feb 2018 22:48
I recommend using a map with the location of all the fruits. In the video they are scattered all over the map and it takes quite a long time to get from point to point. I left the island for last (it is number 27 on the map). I confirm the need to collect only ground fruits to receive a reward.
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By Ramchandr on 20 Mar 2016 13:20
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I received this trophy after I uploaded 10 clips to the Rockstar website, went into the Rockstar editor, chose a cat animal, and the trophy fell out. Maybe someone else will be lucky too.
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15 Sep 2015 21:25