The film begins with a commercial unveiling the opening of the Eden Wildlife Zoo,
a sanctuary for endangered animals. The owner, Ellen Rogers, says in the
commercial that she has finally realized her grandfather's dream
of creating a safe haven for animals by rebuilding their natural environment.
Soon after, the scene shifts to the zoo's veterinary clinic. Here small monkeys
are brought in and they appear to have contracted a strange type of rabies.
The vet immediately orders the keeper to close the door so that no animals escape.
One of the monkeys he was treating died of cardiac arrest. Still, to save it,
Dr. Gordon resorts to adrenaline. The assistant, Robin, reminds the doctor
that it is forbidden to use it on such small animals but Gordon doesn’t care. As soon as the
doctor injects the substance into the animal, all the other monkeys begin to agitate violently.
The vets think they have contracted an airborne virus. Soon after, the monkey
that had died moments earlier comes back to life with a different appearance than usual.
This one jumps off the crib and disappears. The group has to spread out to look for it.
The monkey pushes a closet and drops it on the attendant, killing him.
Robin, frightened, runs to unlock the door to get out. But before she succeeds, the monkey jumps on
her, attacks her in the face, and kills her. It then leaps toward the doctor, though badly
injured, manages to sound the alarm. Meanwhile, Dr. Ellen Rogers, who is on the
bus headed to the zoo, introduces the first interns to how a day's work here works.
Ellen also brings her child along because the babysitter has fallen ill. During the
doctor's talk, a rude girl speaks on the phone, continuing to interrupt her.
Ellen then, annoyed, decides to collect all the cell phones. The bus stops to leave Ricky, a
bird-loving intern, and Chelsea at the aviary. A watchman, Johnny, arrives and greets Ellen;
he says he is in a hurry to check why Dr. Gordon has set off the alarm.
Johnny says not to worry because this is not the first time. As they get off the bus,
the rude girl, Amber, thanks Ellen for keeping her secret, which is that she is on probation.
Ellen says it is not thanks to him that she is here, but to her grandmother,
who is the biggest donor. After meeting Gus,
her supervisor, Amber feeds the warthogs. Ellen's daughter, Thea, goes to find Kifo,
a Crossriver gorilla, the only one alive in the whole world of his species. Ellen explains to an
intern, AJ, that her daughter and the gorilla have grown up together and become best friends.
AJ's supervisor arrives and orders the guy to take care of the gorilla's feces. The intern to
be taken care of by Ellen is Gage. Ellen shows the intern Thea's playroom
because the kindergarten is too far from the zoo. She also confides in him that this was
her laboratory when she was still a student. Ellen then introduces Gage to the zoo security:
Ty, Boris, and Rex, their leader. They go outside, and Gage notices a zip line running all over the
zoo, and Ellen says it is not ready yet. Rex gets acquainted with a new security
employee, Leslie Hogan, or Lizzy. Soon after, the keepers warn Rex that the clinic
alarm keeps going off and that Johnny is not answering the phone. They try calling Dr. Gordon
and assistant Robin, but both get voicemails. Ellen tells the guards and Gage to go and see
what is going on. When they arrive at the clinic, Rex orders the guards
not to take weapons but only the taser. Lizzy does not listen to him and takes a gun
with her, just in case. The boys see a bleeding Dr. Gordon through the clinic door window,
who signals for them not to enter. They misunderstand, however, thinking he
is asking for help, and break down the door. Upon entering, they find Johnny already dead
while Dr. Gordon is still alive. There appear to be no animals in the room, however.
Suddenly, a monkey comes out of Gordon's chest and summons all the other monkeys.
They attack the security and kill Ty and Boris. One of them attacks Rex; Leslie, however,
manages to save him and shoot the monkey. Another zombie attacks Rex, but Gage gains
courage and kills it by slamming it against a wall. Leaving the clinic, Rex calls Ellen
and warns her that almost everyone is dead. She panics and decides to call the police. On
the other hand, Rex wants to go after the monkeys, monitoring them through their microchips to kill
them before they infect the whole zoo. Ellen reminds him that they are supposed to
protect the animals, not kill them, but Rex thinks this rule no longer applies. As Rex,
Gage, and Leslie attempt to reach the monkeys, Ellen closes all zoo
exits and warns the staff to seek shelter. All the supervisors, with their interns, manage
to take cover in time except for Gus's group. The monkeys reach their area and kill Gus.
These, however, also seem to have infected some boars, which attack the three interns,
including Amber. They manage to save themselves by climbing trees.
To their misfortune, the boars and monkeys are not the only ones infected. Soon afterward,
three giraffes arrive and attack the interns. Gage, Rex, and Leslie arrive to help them,
but the giraffes kill two of the boys. Only Amber manages to escape.
Ellen tells Rex that the police must wait for permission from the CDC before entering the zoo
but that officers are already on their way. Rex and the others must reach the
control tower as soon as possible. Amber wants to escape from the zoo,
but Gage tries to make her understand that this is not a good idea. The girl tells him that if he
does not come, she will go by herself. At the same time, another giraffe comes in
front and tries to attack Amber. Gage jumps in front of her and takes the blow for her.
Lizzy then kills the giraffe. As she and Rex swaddle Gage,
Amber backs away and steals the car. Meanwhile, Ellen is playing with her daughter as
she is interrupted by a call. The police alert her that their officers have arrived at the zoo.
As Ellen is talking on the phone, she walks away from the playroom. Rex and the others
realize they no longer have a means of transportation or two-way radio.
Soon after, a herd of elephants approaches the boys. Leslie is ready to shoot, but Gage reassures
her by saying that they are not infected because they have no natural predators.
After that, they ride the elephants through the zoo to protect
themselves from the other animals. The armed police team enters the zoo but
is instantly killed by the infected lions. In the control tower, Ellen sees that Rex's car,
stolen by Amber, is not heading toward her. Ellen uses the walkie-talkie to ask for
an explanation, but Amber drives frightened toward the zoo exit.
Ellen sees from the camera that Amber is trying to escape alone.
On her screen, Ellen notices that there are dangerous animals near the girl.
She begs her to escape from there but not to leave the zoo. Amber does not listen,
and soon after, a huge lion attacks her. Meanwhile, in the playroom, Thea plays
with her puppets. Ellen notices that an animal has entered the control tower.
She runs to check if her daughter is all right, but the door security system does not work.
Thea is attacked by an infected koala and begins to scream in fright. After several
attempts to open the door, Ellen finally manages to unlock it.
In the middle of the room, Ellen sees her daughter, spattered with blood,
holding a baseball bat. Meanwhile, the elephants ridden
by the 3 youths stop. Leslie notices that lemurs are coming toward them,
and the elephants flail around in fright. Rex falls to the ground, and an elephant
crushes his leg. Nearby, a lemur attacks Gage. Leslie runs out of bullets, but the
boys are rescued by Daxton and AJ, who fires a flare gun and scare all the lemurs away.
AJ and Daxton take the three to the lab near Kifo's area. Lizzy bandages Rex's wounds while
Daxton gives antibiotics to Gage. The scene shifts to the playroom, where
Ellen cleans Thea and takes some of the koala's blood to examine it with her microscope.
Daxton calls Chelsea to see how he is doing in the aviary; she tells him that the birds
are fine and that he should be reassured. Despite his broken leg, Rex wants to get to
the aviary, but Daxton tries to stop him. Meanwhile, they notice that the animals are
surrounding them. Daxton goes to check, worried if the gorilla is all right. Unfortunately,
it is too late when he notices that Kifo has also become a zombie.
Later, Kifo kills Daxton and breaks into the laboratory. Rex, with his broken leg,
decides to buy others time by distracting the gorilla. The rest of the group escape,
and Rex is instantly killed. After escaping, the three survivors stop
to rest. Leslie confesses that she promised Rex not to let any animals escape from the zoo.
She then proposes to kill the birds in the aviary before it’s too late.
Amber surprisingly returns and brings the car back to them. The girl, however, is seriously
injured and dies soon after that. The group get in the jeep and run away from the Zombie lions.
The car skids and hits a tree, causing everyone to fall. Ellen calls Chelsea and orders her to
free all the birds to save them. Gage finds a quick way to reach Ellen: the zip line.
Suddenly, while AJ is on the line, one of the ropes breaks, which kills him. The remaining group
collect the gas and methane canisters, heading for the aviary as the birds have been infected.
Once they enter the aviary, they find Ricky's and Chelsea's bodies with an eagle nesting on top.
Ellen sprinkles the aviary with gas and sets the structure on fire. Gage and Leslie,
seeing the smoke, escape and, together with Ellen,
blow up the aviary. They run for the exit but are stopped by Kifo, who is about to kill Thea.
Ellen shoots the gorilla in the head and saves her child in time. A helicopter arrives
at the zoo and rescues the group. Ellen is sad because she thinks she has let her grandfather
down by destroying the zoo. While others console Ellen,
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