Dream Zoo, The Best Animal Revisited

Lately I've been rethinking my thoughts on the absolutely best animal to breed. I'm talking about farm breeding, as in you build a lot of one type of animal, and farm them for coins.

I used to think that the best animal was the one with a coin collection cooldown that matches your ability to actually collect it. For example, if you can take 5 mins to collect coins every 2 hours, then the best type of animal will be an animal with a coin collection cooldown of 2 hours. This approach seem to be true if you're collecting over a 24 hour period...nonstop. However, in real life, we do tend to do some weird activities, like eat, sleep, drive, etc., so a 24 hour period isn't really realistic.

Lets instead take a typical 24 hour period and take out some of the time we need to do some activities. Lets say 8 hours for sleep, 2 hours for work related activities, like dressing, showering, commuting, and an additional 2 hours for miscellaneous activities. That leaves us with a 12 hour window to collect coins.

If you go to the Dream Zoo Coin Collection Timers, you will see on the right side of the spreadsheet has amounts for such a collection schedule.

So, We want to make best use of our time away from Dream Zoo, so what we need is get the animals to work for us during our off hours.

The answer popped out of the spreadsheet was the Rhino from the Plains Habitat, that is the best animal to build purely for coins. One good side effect of breeding a Rhino farm is that:

1. Rhinos are relatively cheap to raise to champion, I'm guessing about 20k per Champion.
2. Rhinos Champions uses less hearts than high level habitats to breed.
3. Rhinos are a lot faster to breed than animals from other habitats. 
4. Bonus Habitat Space is very cheap
5. You can start building your farm at a very low level
6. Don't need to buy any expansion land to get a profitable farm going
7. You are initially given a few Bonus Habitat Space already
8. You will only have to collect twice a day and make more than any other animal using the correct stragety

The only downside of having a Rhino farm is that it gives very low Experience Points per animal. Since you're only collecting twice a day, that's really very low XP for the number of animals you have.

I would suggest you Breed some Rhinos, use the correct strategies (i will post one for newbies) to collect coins, and then start adding other animals. I got my first million coins at about level 12 using the bonus coin collection strategy, which means I can use all the coins I wanted going on safari and fixing flat tires only with coins, thus saving all my precious hearts for Animal Breeding.

So there you have it, the Absolutely Best Animal for Dream Zoo (with caveats): Rhino from Wild Plains Habitat.

If however, you don't need to sleep and you can collect every hour or two, then the Best animal(s) for you  are the Parrot and Orangutan from Wild Tropical Habitat, Aardvark or Honey Badger from Wild Grassland, Python form Wild Jungle, or the Ibex from Wild Mountain Habitat.