Does Level 116 start with a seeded animal?

No. The first decoded frame is a clean 10x10 board with no animal and no visible X mark.

What is the complete Level 116 placement order?

Place r9c1, r7c10, r1c3, r5c7, r3c2, r4c4, r6c5, r8c8, and r2c6 in that order.

No. The source reaches its Excellent completion state with all three hearts visible.

Zoodoku level guide

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Zoodoku Level 116 is a clean 10x10 board with nine animals placed in the order r9c1, r7c10, r1c3, r5c7, r3c2, r4c4, r6c5, r8c8, and r2c6.

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Place the first animal at r9c1 in the orange bottom-left singleton; its row and column Xs narrow the lower field.
Place the second animal at r7c10 in the brown right-edge singleton, keeping the far-right column locked.
Place the third animal at r1c3 in the teal top singleton after the edge exclusions are visible.
Place the fourth animal at r5c7 in the light-green middle pocket, away from the r1c3 diagonal.
Place the fifth animal at r3c2 in the purple upper-left staircase; its propagation closes the remaining purple candidates.
Place the sixth animal at r4c4 in the burgundy inner stair, the surviving center-left slot.
Place the seventh animal at r6c5 in the green center strip, leaving the blue-gray field to white Xs.
Place the eighth animal at r8c8 in the pink right band after the light-green and brown anchors have ruled out their rows and columns.
Finish at r2c6 in the yellow upper-right block and confirm the source's Excellent completion state.

Colors in this level:

Purple, Teal, Yellow, Burgundy, Green, Light-green, Pink, Orange, Brown, Blue-gray

Do not tap the blank r10c6 blue-gray field as a tenth placement; the source finishes with nine animals and uses that area for propagated white Xs.
Do not treat a blank cell as a target merely because it has no X yet; the source's final target order ends at r2c6.

Follow r9c1 -> r7c10 -> r1c3 -> r5c7 -> r3c2 before closing r4c4, r6c5, r8c8, and r2c6.
Treat the blue-gray lower field as propagated exclusions, not as a missing tenth animal family.

Board notes 5 details

Layout: The 10x10 opening has no seeded animal or X mark: purple and burgundy stair through the left, a teal r1c3 singleton, a yellow upper-right block, green and light-green through the middle, pink on the right, orange at r9c1, brown at r7c10, and a broad blue-gray lower-right field.
Goal: Reproduce the source route r9c1, r7c10, r1c3, r5c7, r3c2, r4c4, r6c5, r8c8, and r2c6, then confirm the Excellent finish.
Opening: The first frame is unseeded and has no visible Xs. The first five actions are r9c1, r7c10, r1c3, r5c7, and r3c2; white Xs propagate only after those player taps.
Danger Zone: No red error appears in the source. The blank r10c6 blue-gray cell is a tempting late candidate, but it is not in the source route and shares column c6 with the final r2c6 animal.
Mechanics: This is a clean-start 10x10 nine-animal solve with a zig-zag route and heavy late white-X propagation through the blue-gray field; the source finishes without a heart loss.

Does Level 116 start with a seeded animal?
No. The first decoded frame is a clean 10x10 board with no animal and no visible X mark.
What is the complete Level 116 placement order?
Place r9c1, r7c10, r1c3, r5c7, r3c2, r4c4, r6c5, r8c8, and r2c6 in that order.
Does Level 116 show a red-error heart loss?
No. The source reaches its Excellent completion state with all three hearts visible.