Australia Roster Appreciation Post

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Id also disagree with the comlete notion, but australia defenetly is usable now.
The one part where i personally want additions the most are the tropical north and new guinea, as it really does have the potential to be a standalone region.
Right now we got the croc and the cassowary, but with additions like a tree kangaroo, the dusky pardermelon, the arboreal crocodile monitor, the victorian crowned pidgeon, an echidna, new butterflies like the queen alexandria bird wing, birds of paradise and the pig nosed turtle, this region has the potential to stand on its own as the ying to australias yang.
Rn there isnt really oceania in the game, just australia but with something like tropical rainforest and island packs we could easily get 4 more species for oceania, tassie devil and kiwi for the south and hopefully a tree kangaroo + 1 or 2 or even more of the species mentioned above.
Atleast i would really love to see that

 

[Hugo98]

Right now I'd say that our Australian roster is pretty good, and much, much better than it was at launch. Now I really just want the Tasmanian Devil, Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo, and North Island Brown Kiwi, and then I would consider the roster perfect.

I agree. Those are exactly the three species I still really want for this region, too. Of course more like another wallaby/kangaroo (e.g. ring-tailed rock kangaroo), a quoll, echidna and of course birds like the crowned pigeon, budgies, kookaburras, black swans etc. would be the icing on the cake but I could live without them.
And I agree that we now have an Australian roster that we can totally work with.

 

[SanRazo618]

I need the devil, tree kangaroo, and kiwi before I say complete but the emu and wallaby are the biggest additions frontier could’ve made

 

[ElectricMonk]

I wouldn’t say “complete” (but that depends how you define it) - I’d say we now have the minimum required.

 

[Maccasaurus]

While the roster is getting better it’s far from complete. There’s so many interesting species that I would love to see added. Obviously the Tasmanian Devil, Kiwi and Tree Kangaroo (Goodfellows would be my pick). So that’s one each from Australia, New Zealand and PNG. I would also love to see the following introduced somehow
Short-beaked echidna
Little blue penguin
Lace monitor (another monitor species that can climb)
Australian pelican
Black swan
Superb lyrebird
Quokka
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
Yellow-footed rock-wallaby
Sugar glider (maybe a new exhibit like animal after a sloth is released - smaller box with two trees and it can loop glide between between them but mostly sleep in a small while with head visible)
Common brushtailed possum
Exhibit animals - so many that could be included
Frilled neck lizard
Shingleback lizard
Thorny devil
Water dragon
Red bellied black snake
Inland tiapan
Red back spider
Goliath stick insect
Lord Howe island stick insect
Eastern long-necked turtle
Tuatara

 

[DarthQuell]

So, honestly then, what animals are truly essential to round out Australia?

 

[markun]

So, honestly then, what animals are truly essential to round out Australia?

I would say it depends entirely on the individual and what they want to do. An overseas zoo with an Australian section could be managed with what we have, an Australian city zoo with a general collection could do with a few more, a native fauna park a lot more.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

So, honestly then, what animals are truly essential to round out Australia?

While not an australian myself, for just australia the 2 most important animals for them to build an australian "wildpark" would be an echidna and the tasmanian devil as the big two must species, with animals like the black swan, lace monitor, greater bilby, common brustailed possum and atleast 2 more macropods (my prefered choices being the common wallero and the yellow footed or parmas wallaby) being next in line for a great roster for just australia.
Tasmania propaply is the same + the eastern quoll, while new zealand lives or dies by the kiwi, with only the kea, little blue penguin, kuneku pig and domestic sheep being viable additions.
As mentioned above, theres still a lot that can be done for new guinea, but the stand out must inclusion is a tree kangaroo, followed by the victorian crowned pidgeon and pig nosed turle as 2 very common and unique animals, with the lesser bird of paradise, dusky pardermelon amd crocodile monitor being in the third tier to round out new guinea sections.
There also obviously are aviaries, which for australia alone would have a bunch of options, for example budgies, zebra finches, rainbow lorikeets, cockatios, kookaburas, cockatiels and im sure quite a few mire like the allready mentioned birds of paradisevand keas.

Like i said those are my 2 cents as a non australian, but really oceania could easily double in the amount of animals if frontier just let them

Edit: besides the greater bilby all of these animals are atleast decently common outside of oceania with either 10+ holdings or a current rising trend if they are below like the walleroo or the quoll

 

[Captain Callum]

So, honestly then, what animals are truly essential to round out Australia?

Well the average Australia zone for zoo is basically complete - kangaroo, wallaby, emu, cassowary and Koala. Other representative animals could be Tasmanian devil, tree kangaroo, and short beaked enchida. Many of the animals suggested are not that common really, it depends if we are asking on an international basis or a regional basis

 

[yoav_r]

The only common habitat animal missing for international collection is the Black Swan (and kookaburra if we count aviaries).

Rare but famous species like the Taz devil, Echidna and Tree Kangaroo could be added as well.

But for a zoo that specoalizes in australia we could never truly get enough animals, as with most diverse regions. There are just too many very specific species for that. But for now at least we have the bases covered.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

There are actually more common species then the blackswan, for example the parmas wallaby, victorian crowned pidgeon, lace monitor, pig nosed turtle and depending on how low the bar is set even the 29 holdings of the brushtailed possum in the EAZA are a decent number

 

[yoav_r]

There are actually more common species then the blackswan, for example the parmas wallaby, victorian crowned pidgeon, lace monitor, pig nosed turtle and depending on how low the bar is set even the 29 holdings of the brushtailed possum in the EAZA are a decent number

I was more thinking in terms of hundreds of zoos.

 

[Markiz]

I've yet to visit a zoo that doesn't have a Black Swan, while I'm also yet to see Tree Kangaroos, Devils and Echidnas, so from personal standpoint I have my preferences

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

I was more thinking in terms of hundreds of zoos.

Parma wallaby still got the 100 coverd, but talking by those terms many "common" species really arnt.
Orang Utans for example have just under 100 EAZA holdings with 99, Gorillas got 69 and even the often praised for being the most common hamadyras baboon "just" manages 134 holdings.
Ofcourse there are more in the rest of the world and we can propaply say +50 for each, but i think the point came across.
Really if we want to go by even just hundred+ zoos as common, many common zoo animals dont fit that criteria any more when really even 50+ allready is quite the big number

 

[TheHippoGirl]

As far as habitat animals are concerned, I still need the Tasmanian Devil and the Goodfellow's tree kangaroo to be 100% satisfied. Other animals like echidna, pademelon or numbat would be cool but are not essential to me. I also don't care at all about the kiwi (my unpopular opinion, sorry). I would also like to get more Australian exhibit animals, especially the frilled-neck lizard and thorny devil. And, of course, some flying birds, but that's another story...

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Until the old exhibits offer the same customisability as the WEs, every new exhibit that isnt a WE is a complete waste of space, especally when australia alone has 4 great optiens with the budgeries, zebrafinches, rainbowlorikeets and cockatiels

 

[Chuditch]

What essential species are remaining for Australia is entirely subjective. For the average international zoogoer, every essential Australian animal aside from perhaps the black swan is already in the game and the continent is theoretically well-off enough to see no future additions. However, from an Australian perspective, we're only just beginning to cover the basics and the list of essential zoo species well exceeds the number of Australian animals that we currently have. It's fairly obvious that PZ's roster is never going to come close to the diversity of native animals kept in Australian zoos, so my main goal for bringing the continent to "well represented" status in-game is to get the major taxonomic bases covered. With this in mind, the most important remaining habitat animals for me are:

1. Tasmanian devil
2. Short-beaked echidna
3. A tree kangaroo - this can be filled by a Papuan species given Goodfellow's is often kept in Australian wildlife parks and such
4. A goanna - either the perentie or lace monitor will do
5. A waterbird - either the black swan or Australian pelican. These birds aren't related to each other at all and we really should get both, but I'm only expecting one (if we get them at all)
6. Little penguin
7. Greater bilby - extremely unlikely to be added but it's too important for Australia to not make this list in my eyes

All of the above animals are very commonly kept in Australia and fairly essential for building an Australian zoo, whether a city zoo or a native wildlife park. In a perfect world we'd get another 4 or 5 terrestrial macropods and a bunch of little weirdos like quolls, possums, native rodents and lyrebirds, but that's obviously not a realistic expectation, and even from my list above the devil and tree kangaroo are the only two I'd consider likely to be added. The reality is that Frontier is just not likely to give Australia another animal pack's worth of animals, so I've lowered my expectations to the point that I'll just be happy with anything we get (the devil is non-negotiable though. Give. Now).

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

Another Australian mammal I have just considered that would be a pretty ideal inclusion is the sugar glider - they would definitely work in the walkthrough exhibit, which has a similar style to this real-life walkthrough display in a nocturnal house at Budapest Zoo:

Australian house - Nocturnal part - ZooChat

With free-roaming Lyles' flying fox, Ground cuscus, Sugar glider and Brush-tailed bettong.

www.zoochat.com

Just done some checking around and they are the fourth most common marsupial both in North America (behind the red kangaroo, red-necked wallaby and the native Virginia opossum) and Europe (behind the red kangaroo and red-necked and parma wallabies). They are also fairly common in Australian zoos.

Outside of Australia, I think the sugar glider and black swan are the two key species to creating a good Australian area.

 

[DarthQuell]

Honestly, I've only seen 3 Australian species in my life:

Common wombat
Koala
Wallaby (unsure of species)

In my mind, I have the complete roster. But seriously, though, I'd like the following:

Tasmanian devil
Kiwi

In my opinion, I'm satisfied with just those 2

 

[yoav_r]

Honestly, I've only seen 3 Australian species in my life:

Common wombat
Koala
Wallaby (unsure of species)

In my mind, I have the complete roster. But seriously, though, I'd like the following:

Tasmanian devil
Kiwi

In my opinion, I'm satisfied with just those 2

How did you manage to not see an emu or a kangaroo?