What animals are in GTA 6, and can you hunt alligators?

Leonida is drawn as a place with animals in it, and the official material keeps putting them in front of the camera. This page is the wildlife as the frames show it, what none of them settle about hunting or handling any of it, and what the last game did with its animals.

What the material shows

Alligators first, because in the frames we have there are more of them than of any other animal. At 0:47 of Trailer 1 one is halfway through the open door of a convenience store, up on its legs with its head inside, while a security feed watches and nobody inside turns round. In a Grassrivers press still a camouflaged pickup wades the swamp towing a caged trailer of alligators, somebody standing behind the cab, a police SUV following through the water and a helicopter overhead. The swamp’s own page has the rest: three people covered in mud posing on an airboat with a dead alligator laid across the boards and a dead wildcat on the seat behind it, a bearded man holding a break-action shotgun upright in a shed where an alligator hangs from a beam, and an airboat photographed straight down in bright green duckweed with three live alligators around it, one right at the bow.

Inland the cast changes. A Mount Kalaga press still shows four deer at a drinking spot, one of them lying down, and a big cat walking through the shallow water towards them; predator and prey in one frame, and the park’s page carries it. The same park is where two hunters with rifles are out in long grass, with the back of a large animal showing above it nearer the camera. In the Keys an iguana is out on the tarmac of a village street in front of a woman on a mobility scooter, with a bus standing behind and a dog at the left of the frame, and a second one is on a rock above the shallows; in a bar, a woman has an iguana draped over her shoulders. Two white wading birds stand in the shallows beside the floatplane, and a dog gets prompts of its own, SCOLD, PET and STUDY with DOG under them, though nothing in that frame says whose dog it is.

What follows is limited. The hunters, the rifles and the dead animals say hunting is a thing that happens, and the hunting guide takes that as far as the frames allow. An alligator halfway through a shop door suggests the animals move through the world on their own. Whether any of them can be shot, caught, sold or kept by the player is in none of the frames we have.

The Launch Trailer adds two animals near the water. At 0:14 two fins break the turquoise surface beside a man standing on a dock, a floatplane moored nearby; the shot is too brief to name the animal for certain. At 0:21 a green iguana sits on sunlit asphalt under a highway overpass, a dark car further down the road.

What nobody knows

• Which animals can be hunted, caught or kept.
• Whether alligators attack, and what the caged ones on the pickup’s trailer are for.
• Whether an iguana or a bird is anything but scenery.
• Whether there is a photography challenge or a collection tied to wildlife.
• Whether the cougar at the drinking spot, as Rockstar’s caption names it, is a danger to the player.

How Grand Theft Auto V did it

This is the reference, not a prediction. The GTA Wiki’s table of animals in GTA V lists boars, cats, chimpanzees and monkeys, cows, coyotes, deer, dogs of several breeds, hens, mountain lions, pigs, rabbits and rats on land, dolphins, fish, sharks, stingrays and whales in the water, and cormorants, crows, hawks, pigeons and seagulls in the air; no alligator is on that list. Some of them fought back: cougars attacked, and the achievement Out of Your Depth was earned by being “eaten underwater by a shark”. Hunting was a side line for Trevor, “hunting down different kinds of animals and sending photos of their corpses to Cletus”. The enhanced edition for PS4, Xbox One and PC “introduced new animals into the game and a new Wildlife Photography Challenge”; the date of 4 March 2025 that the wiki gives for wildlife on PC belongs to GTA Online, whose animals had come with The Chop Shop update.

What this page becomes on launch day

From 19 November 2026 this guide is rewritten from the release build: which animals can be hunted or handled, whether alligators attack, and what the dog can do, each with the date it was tested. Until then the short answer at the top stands.