The most "iconic" animals of SA are present in the game, I'm not talking about the Amazon or the smaller ones the size of a squirrel. If SA is not complete in this regard, I would like to know which very famous animal from SA is not present in the game? But in Europe, we still don't have representative species with which to build a specific zoo! It's not a matter of politics, but Eastern Europe has preserved specific animals that almost disappeared in Western Europe. That is why the lack of interest of Western Europeans for the fauna specific to the old continent.Haha, I will skip the politics and agree with stonegarden (as someone from Balkans) in a sense that Eastern European zoos are in fact loaded with European species. I also think that zoos from Central Europe and then further onwards North and East, are more likely to hold Eurasian Brown Bears, than western zoos. But I haven't checked that, I'm speaking from experience of zoos I visited.
However I do also agree that we have crazy amount of native European animals for a zoo game, and that we're (we who find them interesting) are lucky to have that many (just look back at Zoo Tycoons) and that you really can't complain (in good faith) that we were robbed of something.
I don't even want to compare South American and European rosters compared to their respective biodiversities, I understand if one doesn't personally care for SA animals, but that doesn't mean that you can't still objectively recognize that from zoo perspective SA roster needs way more "patching"