Hippos and White Rhinos should not fight
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Same author has quite a few of those: https://zoolex.org/slist/publications#S
There’s a video on daily mail showing a hippo actually drowning a adult rhino. Appears to be a black rhino but I did not zoom in. The rhino had his horn removed to deter poachers but made him a easy casualty for the hippo. This is just a game though so I don’t oppose it. In the wild tho they are natural enemies and really don’t like one another.
Hippos are very territorial and will attack anything they perceive as a threat, I can't find anything to suggest they have any extra special enmity with rhinos.
And as my main post shows, they can be kept together in sifficiently large habitats. So if the game allows mixing hippos with all the savannah animals there is no reason to make rhinos the exception.
what gets me is that frontier is slowing forgetting enrichment bonuses are a thing because if you follow the enrichment line you do end up with both the rhino and hippo in the same habitat that plus the additions made in the arid pack has made it impossible to build a habitat for all the animals in the African enrichment bonus group.
@Rowlie even though yes hippos and rhinos do fight in the wild and would occasionally have a scuffle in captivity in certain situations I could accept that in a game they could possibly get along. Wolves and big cats on the other hand are very territorial. A arctic wolf and a timber wolf would fight till dominance was established. Same with big cats a Siberian and a Bengal in captivity would likely fight if both were males. Personally that’s why I like sandbox because you can do away with size requirements and fighting but I realize not everyone likes this style of play.
I'll support this. Do they also attack black rhinos?
I'm on the fence about this one. I like the idea for the game. But when I visited a game reserve in South Africa and we were looking at the hippos, they told us that their hippos had killed 3 rhinos in their time there. A mum and baby, and another adult another time who came to drink at their water pool. This was an excellent game reserve with enormous space and a limited no of guests, no day visitors allowed, max 4 jeeps at a wildlife spot at a distance, committed to conservation and the best wildlife welfare standards. So these animals were really protected from stress and they were in their natural environment with tonnes of resources. Hippos are just incredibly aggressive when they want to be, especially when they have young. So I don't think it's realistic. That safari park is a ticking time bomb, or maybe they've adapted to a level of domestication somehow.
I also personally quite like that you can't have allll the savannah animals together...it makes for more interesting diverse habitats. So I'm really sorry, I'd love to support your mission but I think overall I lean against it, sorry!
I also personally quite like that you can't have allll the savannah animals together...it makes for more interesting diverse habitats. So I'm really sorry, I'd love to support your mission but I think overall I lean against it, sorry!
They need space to graze, they sleep in the water all day and come out at night to graze on grass. They need to eat tonnes. So I think the space is realistic for a quality zoo.
I agree with what you're saying, but for the simplicity of creative builds and habitats, they should probably just take out the hippo-rhino aggression...
Kinda like how they made capybaras friendly with various animals despite not ever meeting llamas or Galapagos tortoises.
And don't get me started on the pet table raccoons. Cute little wild cats, but they can be very aggressive. Even pet raccoons have attacked their owners (although every pet species has attacked their owners, I guess)
The initial space is realistic. The fact that every additional hippo requires an extra square kilometer of space is not, snd makes for vast dead space the ingame animals dont use.
The game supposedly allows big groups of hippos but makes it ikpossible to build for them.
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Considering that the polar bears were greatly reduced (although still a little big), I can see hippo space being reduced, too.
Same for canines; why do wolves, dholes, and dingos need so much space? It's ridiculous
yes all 3 rhinos and the hippo will attack each other
Especially when many zoos have underwater viewing of hippos. Good luck having underwater viewing when the hippo is on the other side of a 2 kilometer lake