Zootopia sets in a world inhabited only by non-human mammals, the film's inhabitants are divided between predator and prey. Thousands of years ago, animals still lived a barbaric life. But over the years, animals evolved to think rationally and walk upright on their feet, and both carnivores and herbivores made peace and stopped killing each other. Until now, Zootopia has become a modern utopian metropolis inhabited by all kinds of evolved mammals, where carnivores and herbivores coexist peacefully. Animals also use a wide range of technology, while predators rely on insects, fish and other sources of food.
In order to enable all kinds of animals to have a suitable living environment, animal city USES large air conditioning system and sprinklers to divide the city into several different climate areas, including Sahara Square, Tundratown and Rainforest District. Downtown is Savanna Central and Little Rodentia.
The protagonist, Judy Hopps, is a rabbit from the rural town of Bunnyburrow who aspired to become a police officer at a stage show when she was nine years old. When Judy came of age, she went to the
zootopia police academy, eventually graduated and became the first bunny officer in the zootopia police department. However, on the first day of reporting to animal city after Judy left rabbit hole, Chief Bogo appointed her as an unattached traffic policeman. On her first morning at work, Judy met Nick Wilde, a con man, and Finnick, his partner, in an ice shop.
The next day, after discovering that a weasel called Duke Weaselton had stolen a flower shop, Judy left the traffic police to pursue him across the city. In spite of her success in hunting, she was scolded by chief niu and even nearly dismissed for deserting her duty and disobeying instructions. When Mrs. Otterton came to the chief cow's office to plead with the police to help find her missing husband, Mr. Emmitt Otterton, Judy on the spot volunteered to take the case. With the help of Dawn Bellwether, the head of cattle was forced to agree to her case, but she was required to solve it within 48 hours or hand over her badge and resign. Judy looked through the data and found that Nick was a key witness in the missing case and forced him to help solve it.
Judy and
Nick wandered to a limousine rental company in glacier town to find out. There they were found and brought to the home by the hands of glacier town's crime boss, Mr. Big, and Judy and Nick learned that Mr. Renato Manchas, his driver, had attacked him. The two then went to tropical rain forest to ask menzas, but he suddenly went mad; After Judy's call to the directorate's assistance, chief cow and other police officers came to the scene, but the crazy manchas was nowhere to be found. Chief cow asks Judy to hand over the badge, but allows Nick's defense to continue to solve the case. On the cable car leaving the scene, Nick told Judy about his childhood bullying by herbivores. Later, they used road monitors with the help of the deputy mayor of the sheep to track down manchas. They followed the route to an abandoned hospital on the cliff. They found all the missing animals were being held there. And they were imprisoned by the mayor of Leodore Lionheart, who not only secretly captured all the meat-eaters going berserk, but also asked people to study the causes of their madness. But the researchers could do nothing about the situation and could only advise the lion mayor to reveal the truth. But he feared that if the news came out, it would not only undermine the whole animal city, but also cause him as a carnivore to lose the trust of his citizens, so he chose to hide everything, even director niu did not know.
Later, Judy and Nick escaped from the hospital and announced everything to the public. The mayor of the lion was arrested. Judy invited Nick, who was greatly credited with solving the case, to join the police department as an associate officer. But later in the press conference, when asked by the reporter why the predators were crazy, Judy's "nature-related" misstatement reminded Nick of being bullied as a child. Not only is there no way to retract all the frenzied carnivores, but more cases of barbarism have been reported. Fear of predators is growing, antagonism is growing and urban unrest is frequent. Judy felt that what she had done had not made the city better, but had divided it, so she decided to quit her job as a police officer and return to help her family in farming.
When Judy returned to rabbit hole, she found that the "Nighthowler," a plant used to drive away insects, was the main cause of the frenzy. Then she went back to animal city to find Nick and apologize. The two worked on the case together and tracked down Doug, a ram who had made a midnight howl into a bullet in a secret laboratory. Judy and Nick were headed to the police station after successfully obtaining laboratory evidence when they were intercepted by the deputy mayor of the city, who had become the mayor. It turned out that the deputy mayor of the sheep was the mastermind of the whole incident. She not only planned to let the mayor of the lion lose power, but also wanted to gain power by stirring up fear in the crowd. Later, Judy and Nick put on a play to deceive the deputy mayor of the sheep and recorded the confession of her mastermind and the mayor of the lion with a recording pen. The police who arrived at the scene also arrested the deputy mayor of the sheep and her colleagues. Finally, the antidote to the midnight howl was developed, and all the affected animals gradually recovered.
After graduating from the police academy, Nick became the first fox officer in the department of animal city, and Judy's associate officer.
