Which animals are they?

well first i did African penguin but that didn't work and then i did African tortoise

Are you checking the zoopedia to make sure that each animal has the yes for the "Can guests enter habitat option?"

May we assume you are trying to set up an interactive habitat?
Let's go over the basics.
Habitat is functioning and has a species that has guests may interact in their zoopedia listing.
Habitat has a guest gate in the barrier.
Habit has sanitizer stations within said habitat.
That is all that is required for an interactive habitat.
For habitats that guests may enter we don't need the sanitizer stations and species may have guests may enter or guests may interact listed in their zoopedia entry.

Both of those species can interact with guests. Are the guests not leaving the path in the habitat or is it that they are not even entering the habitat? If it is the former, is your path
inside the habitat transversable to the terrain?

im saying that the requirements for the guests entering they are all checked except the animal requirement so the guests wont enter at all because of that but i have the right animals

yes I have checked zoopedia I know how to do the interactive habitats do them all the time but for some reason this one wont recognize the animals

grampers62 yes to all the above except wont recognize that i have the right animals in the habitat

Perhaps a screenshot might give us a clue what's going on. One regular and one with the animal traverse area heat map.
And you have tried moving the guest gate slightly to ensure it is connected to the path?

So many random things seem to be occurring in PZ these days...
Just for being sure, have you verified game files lately?

i deleted my whole habitat and started all overt and it still wont recognize the animals.yep I have done everything must be a glitch

Yeah, it could be. I usually find that there is something that is causing the issue. Although, it could be very abstract to what we are trying to do.

Both African Penguin and African Spurred Tortoise are 'Guests can enter habitat' animals. If you then look at the new interactive animals that came with Barnyard pack you can see that they are 'Guests can interact animals'. Such as Alpine Goat and Alpaca.

No amount of setting up the perfect interactive habitat will make the non interactive animals interactive.

The in game help also states it too.

As per Animal Encounter Requirements:
1. Guest Gate
2. Hygiene Stations
3. No Dangerous Animals
4. Interactive Animals

The animals you have tried so far are not marked as Interactive, so it doesn't tick that required box. Try one of the interactive ones and see if it works then.

Guests should still be entering the habitat. OP states they do not.

Originally posted by grampers62:

Guests should still be entering the habitat. OP states they do not.

I was reading that the animals weren't being accepted .. *reading back in case I missed that part*. Ah that one statement .. but all the other statements are mentioning the animals not being accepted and that being the reason they are not entering.

Sometimes they do take a while to access a habitat, or if it's too far away from the nearest item of interest they may simply turn around.

But yes, if they have a path into the habitat and the animals are an 'guests can enter habitat' animal then the guests should enter if there are no other reasons they aren't.

I wonder... I wonder if removing the sanitation stations will get guests to enter?