Interesting thread. Hits on something that has been occurring to me increasingly as I've played PZ over the last week.
I find I play the game almost entirely on Pause. I do all my extensive building, landscaping, preparing, admin and management with the game paused. Occasionally I'll unpause and Play, and watch things unfold, address issues, send animals to Trade Centre if there is overpopulation/fighting, then go straight back to Pause for another long stretch of issue resolution, redesign, more building, landscaping, prep work, admin and management. Then unpause and Play for a brief period before pausing again.
Rinse and repeat.
I'm sure this is not how the game is intended to be played.
The game does indeed work far, far too fast. Everything needs to slow down. I would not be able to cope happily without having to pause - I'd have no time to extend the park and build new areas and habitats.
I don't mind taking the Pause/Play/Pause approach, I've become used to it, but overall it would be much more enjoyable experience if the game continues to play while I have time to build and extend and redesign.
Another voice here to Frontier then to please slow down the pace of the game.