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  • Harsher in Hindsight: After getting off on the wrong foot with everyone due to her shooting Kovacs, Dariela bitterly stated that if she wanted to, she could "take out the Frenchie (meaning Chloe) with ease." The very next episode, she ends up accidentally closing the door on Chloe before she could get away from poison gas.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
    • General Davies crossed the line when he released an infected gorilla at the Russian Embassy in order to regain Russian support for the Noah Objective, killing 14 people, including the ambassador's daughter.
    • The Shepherds cross this when they sterilize the entire human race, dooming them all to extinction.
  • Narm: The whole premise can be this, but there are a few stand-out moments-
    • The use of real trained animals results in animals showing no signs of aggression as they kill people with their snarls and roars being dubbed in later.
    • The wolves' attack on the prison is full of this; the prison guards run away scared, despite being armed, opening every door behind them in their panic, then a pack of five to ten wolves kill hundreds of inmates (although the fire probably accounted for a lot of those).
  • Narm Charm: Some viewers watched the show specifically to see how much more ludicrous the show could get, and it often delivered.
  • Seasonal Rot: Season 1 starts out interesting and suspenseful, Season 2 gets kind of silly when it keeps trying to up the ante by giving the mutant animals psychic powers and killing off Chloe, and Season 3 completely falls apart under far too many Ass Pulls and goofy pseudo-science. This presumably led to the cancellation.
  • Squick:
    • Chloe tries to tell Jackson she's capable of taking care of herself... just before she trips and lands on a dead bear with its organs slashed out. Her face says it all...
    • Rat penis.... Yeah.
    • Jamie's infected big toe. It looks bad enough when we first see it, like any typical frostbite or gangrene infection. Not long after Logan amputates it, we get to see the meaty, bleeding stump where it used to be up close as he's bandaging it up.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Don't be fooled into thinking that this is a family-friendly show about the lives of animals. It's actually about a man who solves violent mysteries involving animals. Not helping matters is that James Patterson, who writes funny books for kids about life in middle school, was behind the show.

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