Tundra Animals that AREN’T from the Highlands

ScotiaMugdock

ScotiaMugdock
Mayki said:
I don't know why some on the forum think a Tundra pack wouldn't sell. A combo of walrus, musk ox, wolverine, and rockhopper penguin would go down really well I think for both casuals and more hardcore players. Most popular pick for scenery appears to be some Pacific Northwest American theme with totem poles and such. I think the hardest thing to think of would be exhibit? My heart would want a seabird walkthrough aviary but if we discount birds there is a lot less interesting options.
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Surely the scenery would have to be Greenlandic or Nunavut inspired for a tundra pack…
 

macronecu

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NZFanatic said:
Why pick these particular species? None of them have much of a captive presence at all. IMO the obvious contender for a fourth penguin is the gentoo - it's a very common species to mix with the king penguin, a combo tons of zoos do in real life that would be recognisable to a lot of zoo-goers. The rockhopper is the next best pick.
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i tried to pick the most polar of the penguins because of the theme, so i skipped rockhopper (which is my favourite for fourth penguin actually)
but i did forget the gentoo, thank you for reminding me, im adding it to my post
the others are indeed relatively rare but not super rare or almost non existent like three toed sloth and proboscis monkey so im fine with those as well

NZFanatic said:
They're still not kept in open-air habitats, though, but even if we ignore that they are still absolutely tiny birds.
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i agree about this, they seem more likely as walktrhough exhibit
in addition their exhibits irl are usually rocky and steep so this could be hard to animate unless it is an enrichment item like goat mountain
overall walkthru exhibit seems more plausible

Markiz said:
If I understood topic correctly it's about Tundra animals that can't be found in mountains. And there are Wolverines in Mountains
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according to the op we can pick alpine animals too, they just cant be exclusive to alpine
 

jcp011c

jcp011c
I've been alerted to the Wolverine Biome Marginalization comments (jk) and am here to remind everyone that while Wolverines are primarily associated with the Tundra, they are also at home in Mountains and Woodlands. Wolverines are the best at what they do, so please no more Wolverine slander.
 

FlameWizard492

FlameWizard492
NZFanatic said:
Why pick these particular species? None of them have much of a captive presence at all. IMO the obvious contender for a fourth penguin is the gentoo - it's a very common species to mix with the king penguin, a combo tons of zoos do in real life that would be recognisable to a lot of zoo-goers. The rockhopper is the next best pick.
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I agree with what you say about the emperor penguin. The only place in the U.S.A. that houses them is SeaWorld Sand Diego. However, adélies and chinstraps are much more common in zoos and aquariums.
 

FlameWizard492

FlameWizard492
Markiz said:
If I understood topic correctly it's about Tundra animals that can't be found in mountains. And there are Wolverines in Mountains
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Or at least not exclusively found in mountains. For example, while the yak and takin can only be found in mountainous tundras, the wolverine can adapt to many tundras, be it woodlands or mountains.

I hope that made things clearer.
 

Antimony96

Antimony96
Let's be real--the Arctic and Antarctic have among the lowest biodiversity of any regions in the world, and the selection of zoo animals from them is small unless you start digging into fully-aquatic species like whales. There are really only two proper tundra animals (excluding a few flying birds that I'm sadly assuming have no shot, like the snowy owl) that have significant demand behind them.
 

zoomaster1994

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-Walrus
-Southern elephant seal
-Southern rockhopper penguin
-Arctic hare
-Musk ox
-Siberian crane
-Tundra Swan
-Leopard seal
 
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Topaz Star

Topaz Star
I gotta admit, this could be a pretty cool scenery pack

Walrus
Muskox
Arctic Hare
Any Arctic Seal

For exhibit maybe a fish tank?
 

Fallax

Fallax
Captain Callum said:
That goes for many of the coastal birds suggested, I have never seen any sort of coastal bird in a zoo so it all seems weird to me. I'm used to visiting giant seabird colonies where they only nest on land although sea birds such as cormorants are one of the few that visit land much more often than puffins, although not necessarily a tundra bird.
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Both zoos in Berlin have sea bird aviaries and there is quite a few zoos which have Inca terms mixed with penguins (I saw these at Bristol before it closed.)

I know Rotterdam Zoo has puffins and other auks in their aquarium.
 

Milurian

Milurian
FlameWizard492 said:
What are some animals that live in the tundra biome - but not, at least not exclusively, from mountainous regions - and that you feel would work in a Tundra Pack?
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all the Antarctic penguins and basically anything living in polar waters like pinnipeds.
most arctic exclusive animals as well so things like the muskox and arctic hare
for the exhibit animal a butterfly like the arctic frillary might work.
 

zoomaster1994

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Narwhaler said:
While I like these animals saigas aren't really tundra animals are they? I'd like to be wrong so I would appreciate if someone could correct me lol
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Well probably not, but on the other hand, they kinda used to? I mean, being Ice age animals that survived. Or does that not count?
 

Doran

Doran
Narwhaler said:
While I like these animals saigas aren't really tundra animals are they? I'd like to be wrong so I would appreciate if someone could correct me lol
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Saiga requires presence of large herbivores to thrive in such conditions. It cant cope with snow, especially deep one. Back in the day big animals trampled snow letting saiga roam through tundra.

So in fact it had to withdraw from tundra due to quartenary extinction. Pleistocene Park in siberia has plan to introduce some saigas due to already existing herd of big bois such as bisons, camels and horses.
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
FlameWizard492 said:
However, adélies and chinstraps are much more common in zoos and aquariums.
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No they aren't. I've only found three locations for adelies - a zoo in Mexico, San Diego, and a zoo in Madrid. Chinstraps are slightly more common but still not actually "common". Emperors only seem to be in San Diego and IIRC a place in Japan (Zoorasia? Possibly?). Gentoos are everywhere, as are rockhoppers, and both exist in the tundra biome exclusively.
 
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