Where can we see (animal you haven’t seen IRL that’s in game)
- Thread starter Spiderhawk
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UPDATE!
Want to see:
- Some form of Asiatic Black Bear, not specifically Formosan
- Chinese Pangolin (or any pangolin really)
- Dhole
- Proboscis Monkey
- Platypus (I know they’re in the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Haven’t been there.)
- Little Blue Penguin (They’re at the Bronx Zoo)
- North Island Brown Kiwi
- Quokka
- I’ve technically seen a Tasmanian Devil at the San Diego Zoo, but they were all bundled up in their hollow log shelter so I couldn’t get a good look at them.
- Saiga
- Wisent
- Pallas’s Cat
- Bush Dog
Updating mine! I'll add to my want to see someday:Sloth Bear: go to zoo in Boise and you could not only see her but feed her some meal worms! Poor meal worms...My siblings and I have actually made enrichment for the zoo's bat-eared foxes with meal worms as well.
Disney's animal kingdom's Babirusa exhibit is cool. We saw them with our grandparents. They are way more elegant than you would expect for pigs. Plus the Exhibit is like being in the rich lands of Asia somewhere. but, that was over 10 years ago it might have changed...
I'd love to someday see:
Dhole
Pallas' Cat
Wombat
Any Wildebeest!
Arctic Wolf
Dall Sheep
Moose
Fossa
Quokka
Bighorn Sheep
Coyote
Bush Dog
Greater Rhea is in Boise and I'm sure lots of other zoos. I'm not sure if I've seen American Flamingos or not. I assume I did because they were pretty pink. but maybe I didn't... Although I have seen Ocelot in the past, I don't know where you would see them now.
For me, I'm going to keep my list to species that I haven't seen but are kept in Australia, as otherwise I haven't seen over half the game's roster lol.
- Caracal - I'm currently planning a Tasmania trip for the end of this year and Tasmania Zoo has caracals, so I could see them there.
- Clouded Leopard - Would absolutely love to see these guys given they're my favourite pantherines, but in Australia they're currently only at the Wild Cat Conservation Centre which I'm both unlikely to be near anytime soon and is only open to the public through expensive tours.
- Collared Peccary - Used to be at the Adelaide Zoo so I might have seen them when I was younger, but I have no recollection of them. The animals from Adelaide Zoo (all very old now and the only ones in the country) are now at the Melbourne Zoo so I'll have to go there to see them.
- King Penguin - Melbourne Aquarium
- Mute Swan - Pretty rare in zoos here now, I think Halls Gap Zoo still has them though and would be the best option for me to see them.
- Snow Leopard - Another species I really want to see, Tasmania Zoo and Melbourne Zoo are both options here
- Western Lowland Gorilla - Melbourne Zoo is the closest to me that has them. If it wasn't apparent from this list I really need to do a zoo trip down to Melbourne sometime lol.
- North Island Brown Kiwi - Last kept in Aus two decades ago now, but I am hoping to visit New Zealand within the next couple years and there they are super common in zoos of course. Also hoping to see them in the wild while visiting there (because whilst I love zoos there's no substitute for seeing an animal in the wild), possibly on the Tawharanui Peninsula or Moturoa Island.
Nearly every African leopard in captivity (outside of Africa) is a hybrid of dubious privately traded origins. I believe there are one or two accredited zoos in the US that claim to have African leopards but most folks agree they probably aren't (IIRC Fort Worth is one of them?). This is honestly what makes their inclusion in the game so weird to me.
Fort Worth does indeed advertise their leopards as African, and having seen them in person I do agree that they match the African phenotype a good bit more than your standard zoomix leopards you see at unaccredited places. But it's also known that the leopards were sourced from Tanganyika Wildlife Park, an unaccredited facility that advertises their own leopards as Amur. So it's just hybrids all the way down, without a doubt.
If you ever get a weekend in Singapore you can see most of these.
Worth to mention i've never seen the coyote, bighorn and the saki.
Some of those species i didn't see exist in Brazil (baboon inabitating some zoos in the south and White-faced saki on BH as examples), but i'm not visiting those facilty's anytime soon, while some animals might come in the future (The pandas are set to come eventually and chetahs might return aswell).
Ooh where did you see the maned wolf?
On my grandpa farm. We saw a couple with some cubs crossing an hill once, although we would normally hear them "howling" at night, as sometimes, they would aproach the house to eat the nearby wolf apples.
As for Europe, only Stuttgart has Quokkas, and they got them recently.
I saw a bighorn sheep in the wild once, I was in Canada to visit my cousins and my uncle went hunting and we saw some on a mountain, he didn't shoot them, he got a white tailed deer.
I have, they're very common in Australian zoos. I've personally seen them at Adelaide Zoo, Gorge Wildlife Park, Urimbirra Wildlife Park, Taronga Western Plains Zoo, the Australian Reptile Park and Kuranda Koala Gardens.
Just to keep this going, thought I’d open the rules to include frequently talked about animals that are high on the essential list and our new Americas dlc
Haven’t seen
Bush dogs
Capercaile
Golden jackal
Tanuki
Red or black howler monkey
Shoebill (I know there’s some at the Bronx zoo)
Perentie
Pudu
Mara
Gerenuk
Eland
Mule deer
Argentina tegu
Haven’t seen
Bush dogs
Capercaile
Golden jackal
Tanuki
Red or black howler monkey
Shoebill (I know there’s some at the Bronx zoo)
Perentie
Pudu
Mara
Gerenuk
Eland
Mule deer
Argentina tegu
I’d recommend this website:
Bronx doesn’t have shoebill, they are only on display at DWA and Tampa.
Red Howlers are also only displayed at DWA.