Agreed and even though I can understand the time spent on the porcupine resulted in less time for others, they still could’ve chosen animals that were clones, but were different from eachother, coyote is a wolf clone, spurred tortoise is a clone form Aldabra, I can’t see any reason why they didn’t do more choices like these.
Oh for sure and it is amazing. It's a work of art practically and given the likely extra effort given in designing in (hello quills!), and how good it looks period, the one of the best if not the best designed animal in the game.
But yeah, I don't want to keep harping on the Arid pack, and I do like the roster more than I did at launch, but I think it was mainly the second antelope that drags the pack down a bit more me. A tortoise or even another canid - Golden Jackal? Would have given us little more variety. Even though we already have plenty of canids.
If I'm not mistaken, the Arid pack also sets a new precedent for the roster by having two of the same "type" of animals in the same pack. Dall Sheep/Reindeer and -to a much lesser extent - the Beaver/Prairie Dog are about the closest that came to that and other than that the individual pack rosters have been pretty diverse. If nothing else, that gives me hope that maybe they'll find a way to get more than one New World Primate in a pack, if a theme ever allows it.