Reptile Ravine is a district for reptiles in the city of Zootopia in Disney's 2025 animated feature film Zootopia 2.
Layout[]
About a century ago, Reptile Ravine—settled between Tundratown and Sahara Square—was designed by Gary's late great-grandmother, Agnes De'Snake, in an attempt to unite all of Zootopia together, not just both mammals and reptiles but for all animals of all kinds. The buildings were constructed with scale-based rooftops and diamond-shaped patterns. Each house came with two different sized doors for reptiles of all sorts to enter. Some of the huts had rounder roofs that mimicked the appearance of turtle shells.
After Ebenezer Lynxley committed his crimes and falsely discredited Reptiles as outcasts, the district was eventually abandoned and buried under mounds of snow, frost, and ice due to the first Tundratown Expansion via the Weather Walls. The lights hardly worked due to the cold temperatures and were out of commission due to a loose lightbulb in one of the lamps.
By the end, once Agnes' patent is made public and the Lynxleys' century-old crimes are exposed, the record is corrected, and the reptiles are officially reintegrated into Zootopia. The once abandoned, yet preserved Reptile Ravine district is thawed out, restored and reopened by Gary in honor of his great-grandmother who has been given a commemorative statue at the town's entrance. Therefore, reptile citizens have returned to their home, including Gary's family.
Places of interest[]
- Lighthouse - A central tower constructed above of the district that doubled as a clock tower. Judy, Gary, and Pawbert used the lighthouse as a source to find the district.
- The De'Snake Household - Gary's family's previous home before Reptile Ravine was frozen over. It has a miniature nursery where Gary's relatives used to play and learn when they were little, and it even houses the De'Snake family tree. In the kitchen and workspace was a compartment where the characters found Agnes De'Snake's original patent for the creation of the Weather Walls. All of the major and minor characters celebrate with a giant Jumbo Pop and mini popsicles at the end of the movie in Gary's house.
- Agnes De'Snake Memorial Statue - A statue posthumously built in the honor of the inventor and founder of Zootopia's Weather Walls.
Trivia[]
- Though not confirmed, Reptile Ravine could be inspired by miniature neighborhoods placed in big cities to house minority groups such as Chinatowns or Little Italy, New York.
- It remains unknown if reptiles will live in other districts outside of Reptile Ravine, except for Tundratown because they are cold-blooded.
- Reptiles seen in the world of Zootopia so far are lizards, snakes (specifically vipers), tortoises, and turtles. However, there is no sign of any other reptiles like alligators, crocodiles, caimans, gharials, Komodo dragons, sea turtles, cobras, anacondas, pythons, boas, rattlesnakes, Gila monsters, horny lizards, or tuataras, etc.
- There is a reference to crocodiles on a page of a book called Partnership for dummies where it was seen looking at an ox and on the t-shirt of a frilled-neck lizard playing a trumpet, signifying that they do exist in Zootopia's world.
- Discrimination towards reptiles in the world of Zootopia could also be a reference to the Reptilian conspiracy theory, which theorizes that fictional shapeshifting humanoid reptilians are alien creatures that came to manipulate human power and society, and thus should be treated as such.
