This is kind of funny because it exaggerates the American-centric view and tries to make it out as unique. North America has more megafauna than South America, Europe, Oceania, the Middle East, North Africa and East Asia. It's only really behind sub-Saharan Africa and South/Southeast Asia. We all have our 'local roadkill' species too but don't complain. But my lord when that racoon and that skunk were released. It was like the apocalypse had arrived....I think the issue for american players is that when it comes to animals like wild boar and other hoofstock we have them here in the wild. It's not interesting to us since the vast majority of our megafauna doesn't really exist anymore in North America. Not animals like the saiga or takin but to americans they're kind of just meh. In fact we have so many wild boar here that they're destroying our ecosystems on the northeast and southeast of the half country. They're the antithesis of conservation. Funny enough nine banded armadillos are becoming more prolific here as well and have managed to migrate from central america all the way to the southern half of south carolina and are expected to move as far north as virginia in the next decade or so but that's a whole other discussion.
I think when it comes down to adding animals a lot of american players and more casual players in general are getting bored of every pack being hoofstock and cats. There are plenty of other mammal groups to pull from like primates, viverrids, marsupials, and mustalids that could use some love and don't get me started on reptiles, inverts and birds. Don't get me wrong frontier does a great job with the animal models but the game is entirely oversaturated with mammals as it is.
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