How South America got the most animals but still got shafted again
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Spectacled bear don't actually live in the amazon rainforest, they live in the andes.Whole animal pack dedicated entirely to Amazon would be really neat
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Sloth
Coati
Howler monkey
Spider monkey
Spectacled bear
Bush dog
Ocelot
Ex: 2 species of Toucan + 3 species of macaw
And I would switch the Ocelot with the Margay. The Ocelot is almost the same size as the clouded leopard, while the Margay is an actual small cat.
Aside from that I love the choices
Cant stress this enough
. They are surpisingly large, which was new to me. And apparently to a lot of other people too given how often its mentioned when the topic of small cats come up 
I like how we keep asking for more SA representation, and then when we get some, people think it is from India...
Well that's actually surprising, I thought the maned wolf being from south America was simple knowledge
SMH
Caracals and striped hyenas are the only 2 animals that live in India
The existence of the maned wolf isn't really common knowledge, to begin with, so I guess that is why.
Christopher Colombus made a similar mistake
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yeah for sure. I think many of us on the forums here overestimate animal knowledge of casual players, especially compared to many of us. And I say that as someone who is somewhat but not expertly knowledgeable about many animals. Even a few we've gotten in game.
must of missed this year's migration, got to give it to the butterflies to fly over the Atlantic every year. Either 46 percent of people didn't even read the question or just assumed every orange butterfly are monarchs
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Well, they messed up with the picture for the answer themselves
Source: https://twitter.com/PlanetZooGame/status/1611424118645133323
Amazon Rainforest pack without Coati would be really meh for me.
But we can always add Coati, Tamandua and Kinkajou to make it really full.
Why not expand it and call it the New World Rainforest animal pack?
We could get some animals from the Caribbean and Central America, too
I think fundamentally the reason SA struggles is it has a very weird spread of Mammals relative to most other continents - a lot of the bulk of the rest of the continents are heavily padded with ungulates and ultimately SA has a very low diversity of them, and frankly, a lot of it is not very memorable deer species. I think we could plausibly take a second SA Camelid - probably Alpaca or Vicuna, and I think a Peccary/Javelina species would also be solid choice.
But really, the gap is in the primates, honestly you could do an entire pack of them and it'd be justified (if not necessarily commercially smart) - I'd argue to even start having that feel like a full roster we'd need:
At least 2x Tamarins/Marmosets
A Squirrel Monkey
A Howler Monkey
A Spider-monkey
Bald Uakari
After that, mammal wise I think the obvious candidates could be picked up fairly easily - Spectacled Bear, a coati, a sloth, a small cat (ocelot or margay) and maybe macaws + toucans for the walkthrough and I think you'd be mostly there?
But really, the gap is in the primates, honestly you could do an entire pack of them and it'd be justified (if not necessarily commercially smart) - I'd argue to even start having that feel like a full roster we'd need:
At least 2x Tamarins/Marmosets
A Squirrel Monkey
A Howler Monkey
A Spider-monkey
Bald Uakari
After that, mammal wise I think the obvious candidates could be picked up fairly easily - Spectacled Bear, a coati, a sloth, a small cat (ocelot or margay) and maybe macaws + toucans for the walkthrough and I think you'd be mostly there?
A Sloth, Coati, spectacled bear, mara and a truckload of monkeys and birbs
I mean, there are "big cats" and "small cats" and cats that are big and small if that makes sense?Cant stress this enough
Big Cats is a term that usually refers to the 5 species of Panthera (lion, tiger, jaguar, leopard, snow leopard) and depending on who you ask, sometimes cheetah or cougar.
All the others are technically "small cats" even though it includes species like the
Lynxes (Canada - up to 20kg, Eurasian up to 32 kg, Iberian up to 16kg)
Bobcat (up to 18kg)
Clouded Leopard sp (up to 23kg)
Ocelot (up to 15kg)
Caracal (up to 19kg)
Serval (up to 18kg)
In that way, this is a example for the amazon animal pack:
- Howler Monkey
- Spider Monkey
- Three-toed sloth
- Southern Tamandua
- Ocelot
- Green Anaconda
- Scarlet Macaw
@nutrit remembered me about Coatis so it could replace the ocelot or tamandua