I’m not well versed on the other species, but I would love the Peere David’s Deer! The conservation work is great, and I saw a herd at the Bronx Zoo!
Winter 2023 DLC Speculation
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My fun fact here is that a single national park in India has as many deer species as all of Europe. But Europe has four species in the game and all of tropical/subtropical Asia have zero.
Which would be bad enough without factoring in that tropical/subtropical Asia also doesn’t have any of its antelopes in the game. And without factoring in that we have caprids from North America and Europe but not Asia, which is the world’s most caprid-rich continent.
Asia is really underrepresented compared to its ungulate diversity.
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Yeah bro, that's what I mean, how unreasonable it all is, but I'm surprised no one has ever said anything about it.
Wapiti is equally an Asian species though. There ranges are a fairly similar size
Appreciate it and I’m here to second you!
I think the must-have deer is a muntjac. My preference is for northern red muntjac as it covers Indian Subcontinent, Southern China and Southeast Asia, but any works.
Requests for Indian deer do occasionally happen when someone suggests an Indian animal dlc but those don't happen too often. I think people see asia with already an impressive sized roster thinking asia surely has to be close to completion without realising countless regions within asia still need basic representation.
I agree with you, brother, the significance of Père David’s deer to modern zoos is extraordinary, and the inspiring conservation story behind it is even more precious, and it is a powerful blow to the extreme people who say that zoos are "prisons."We’ve had many deer wars before.
I really hope that at least Père David’s deer would come eventually
C’mon! Let’s get this thread to 200 pages!!!!
It has been talked to death before, especally around the red deers arival.
Also to make sense of frontiers choices, its less that they have a europe bias here and more that all 5 of europes deer species are just great contenders.
Red deer is arguably THE deer, the fallow deer looks very distinct from the red and is the third most common animal in the EAZA while also seperating itself with its docile nature, most unique antlers of the spotted deers and compatability for walkthroughs and petting zoos, the reindeer is THE tundra animal and the moose is the largest deer.
Even the roe deer makes a great case as a smaller and very common deer with a large range and distinct look, but just for variety sake id strongly prefer a musk deer which comes in the same size class
oh yeah!
I still don't understand how we could barely reach 100 pages in 3 months to now bordering 400 pages and still not be bored with speculating the exact same packs year after year.
Yes, brother, this is actually the crux of the problem. As the area with the richest species, although many people say that Asia has enough species, in fact... there are really many fatal deficiencies.
But tropical deer are still lacking.
I agree with you, bro. My desires are slightly different, it seems to me that cold climates, temperate climates, and hot climates each need a representative deer. In cold climates I would like to see white-lipped deer/ELK/roe deer, one of these three species. In temperate climate I would like to see Père David's Deer/sika deer/ tufted deer , one of these three. As for the tropics, I would like to see one of the four species: red muntjac/Visayan deer/sambar/Hog deer.
yep，dude，I mean deer that are unique to Asia.The four species of deer we currently have are hardly unique to Asia.Compared to the antelopes of Africa, this is incredible.
I also love sambar and hog deer.
Yeah, bro, especially the exciting conservation story behind the Peere David’s Deer makes the reality that we currently don’t have this animal unacceptable.