Please May You Update It To Eurasia Animal Pack.
PZ's Tree of Life
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I do plan on getting around to it, it keeps popping up in my mind but whenever I have the time to do so I forget lol.
After a long wait, the PZ Tree of Life is finally updated! This time we (sloth) bear witness to The Great Ungulating with the addition of the Eurasia & Barnyard animal packs, as well as the collared peccary. Refer to the original post for the proper tree.
Unfortunately I don't really have the time or motivation to go into my usual depth with analysing the new additions from a taxonomic perspective, but all but 5 of the 16 new additions are ungulates anyway, many in already well-represented groups, so it's not like there's a huge deal of interest to go into anyway. However, we did get an entirely new order of birds, the long awaited arrival of Anseriformes with the mute swan, as well as a new family of ungulates (Tayassuidae) in the form of the collared peccary. If the swan wasn't enough, the chicken coming in the Barnyard Animal Pack also means the number of fowl in the game has now tripled! Frontier, please keep the birds coming (and chill it with the ungulates a bit...).
Unfortunately I don't really have the time or motivation to go into my usual depth with analysing the new additions from a taxonomic perspective, but all but 5 of the 16 new additions are ungulates anyway, many in already well-represented groups, so it's not like there's a huge deal of interest to go into anyway. However, we did get an entirely new order of birds, the long awaited arrival of Anseriformes with the mute swan, as well as a new family of ungulates (Tayassuidae) in the form of the collared peccary. If the swan wasn't enough, the chicken coming in the Barnyard Animal Pack also means the number of fowl in the game has now tripled! Frontier, please keep the birds coming (and chill it with the ungulates a bit...).
Amazing work on this with the updates @Chuditch
Yeah, the game is even more ungulate heavy by far than a year ago. SMH. about 14 months ago we had 2 piggies, and now we're going to get our 6th in just a few days. That's a lot of pig in a little time. We will have half as many pigs/peccaries as we do birds in total.
I'd honestly love for the next pack or even two packs to include no ungulates. We've had them before. Australia, Oceania, Twilight...eta I forgot about Aquatic!..it can happen again. They just need a cool down period.
Yeah, the game is even more ungulate heavy by far than a year ago. SMH. about 14 months ago we had 2 piggies, and now we're going to get our 6th in just a few days. That's a lot of pig in a little time. We will have half as many pigs/peccaries as we do birds in total.
I'd honestly love for the next pack or even two packs to include no ungulates. We've had them before. Australia, Oceania, Twilight...eta I forgot about Aquatic!..it can happen again. They just need a cool down period.
Remember when people got mad we'd occasionally get three carnivorans in a single pack? ...good times...
Or when we got a canines for like 4 packs in one year. In retrospect I think people wouldn't have been so mad had they shared more about their future plans.
It basically really does just come down to primates and birds lol
So nothing has changed!
If Frontier actually ran the pack ideas by the community things would be very different. I at least think for the better. Even I have a hard time justifying the insane amount of ungulates in one year. Definitely popular zoo animals, but let’s not act like other animal collections aren’t also part of the zoo experience.
This aged well lol
At least we did not get 4 Dik-Dik, with that said, WHY PICK THE DIK-DIK OVER THE MUNTJAC, I love you Dik-Dik but the MUNTJAC WAS RIGHT THERE
!!!Time for what is more than likely the final update to the PZ Tree of Life. How did the Zookeeper's Animal Pack and associated free update expand the taxonomic diversity of Planet Zoo?
Not very much haha. We did get one new family, Indriidae, containing the Coquerel's sifaka, but otherwise all species that have been added to the game are part of families and orders that already had multiple representatives (many many multiples in some cases). The spectacled bear is the only living member of Tremarctinae, the subfamily of bears that included the giant extinct short-faced bears, and that's pretty cool, but besides that there's not too much to talk about here taxonomy wise. Regardless, this was our first pack with two primates, and even if we didn't get a second platyrrhine/New World monkey like we all wanted, the boost to the order provided by the sifaka and baboon is still very much appreciated. A new habitat reptile is always cool, and the Kirk's dik-dik also stands out amongst an otherwise extremely well represented group thanks to its tiny size.
Not very much haha. We did get one new family, Indriidae, containing the Coquerel's sifaka, but otherwise all species that have been added to the game are part of families and orders that already had multiple representatives (many many multiples in some cases). The spectacled bear is the only living member of Tremarctinae, the subfamily of bears that included the giant extinct short-faced bears, and that's pretty cool, but besides that there's not too much to talk about here taxonomy wise. Regardless, this was our first pack with two primates, and even if we didn't get a second platyrrhine/New World monkey like we all wanted, the boost to the order provided by the sifaka and baboon is still very much appreciated. A new habitat reptile is always cool, and the Kirk's dik-dik also stands out amongst an otherwise extremely well represented group thanks to its tiny size.
I will eventually, just haven't had the time or motivation lately
Fair enough
The vast majority of the ones in Planet Zoo are mammals!
Why aren't there any fish in the game anyways?
Why aren't there any fish in the game anyways?
Yeah. There were four of five groups of vertebrates and some invertebrates but the only fish there were food for fish-eaters.
I specifically meant sharks, rays, and large oceanic fish. Possibly sawfish as well.