Well, I for one am very excited about the newly announced variant coloring coming with the next update and so thought I would take a stab at predicting which animals will fall into which variant category! And which ones may get left behind. I will also note if there are specific variants I am hoping for where applicable. I will also note that I am nowhere near an expert in what color variations animals occur in nature, so a lot of these are based on my knowledge of particular favorite species and google searches. Here we go!
No Change
African Buffalo
Bairds Tapir
Colombian White-Faced Capuchin
Common Ostrich
Dall Sheep
Formosan Black Bear
Giant Panda (unless the qinling variant is different than the existing albino)
Okapi
Plains Zebra
Pygmy Hippo
Sable Antelope
Thomson Gazelle
Subtle
Aardvark
African Elephant
American Bison
Bongo
Bonobo
Bornean Orangutan
Cheetah (Jumping to Major if Frontier is glorious and gives us King variants, but I don't think it terribly likely for this update)
Common Warthog
Giant Anteater
Himalayan Brown Bear
Hippopotamus
Indian Elephant
Indian Rhinoceros
Janguar
Japanese Macaque
Mandrill
Nyala
Polar Bear
Pronghorn
Red Panda
Red Ruffed Lemur
Ringtail Lemur
Snow Leopard
Springbok
Western lowland Gorilla
Medium
African Wild Dog
Aldabra Giant Tortoise (I'm not sure about this one generally, but I know that some tortoises can have really variant/interesting shells, and my google search suggests these guys can have some variation there, but it's hard for me to tell (especially since I can't really be sure if pic is labelled with the correct species))
Arctic Wolf
Bactrian Camel
Black Wildebeest
Chinese Pangolin (to my surprise these guys appear capable of ranging from black to tan?)
Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Same as above)
Gemsbok
Gharial
Greater Flamingo
Komodo Dragon
Nile Monitor
Reindeer
Reticulated Giraffe
Saltwater Crocodile
Siberian Tiger
Spotted Hyena
West African Lion (hoping for a black-maned male)
Western Chimpanzee
Major
Bengal Tiger (my fingers are crossed for golden tabby and psuedo-melanistic black tigers!)
Grizzly Bear
Indian Peafowl (there are so many varieties here and I'm hoping for all of them (however, since I believe many of these were selectively bred, I'm not sure that they'll be included), but special mention to the pied varieties)
Llama (hoping for painty and patchy fellows!)
Springbok (apparently they come in black and copper too)
Timber Wolf
So that is my mix of prediction and wish list for the color variants! What do you think, any alternative predictions you are championing? Got a color morph that I don't know about?
No Change
African Buffalo
Bairds Tapir
Colombian White-Faced Capuchin
Common Ostrich
Dall Sheep
Formosan Black Bear
Giant Panda (unless the qinling variant is different than the existing albino)
Okapi
Plains Zebra
Pygmy Hippo
Sable Antelope
Thomson Gazelle
Subtle
Aardvark
African Elephant
American Bison
Bongo
Bonobo
Bornean Orangutan
Cheetah (Jumping to Major if Frontier is glorious and gives us King variants, but I don't think it terribly likely for this update)
Common Warthog
Giant Anteater
Himalayan Brown Bear
Hippopotamus
Indian Elephant
Indian Rhinoceros
Janguar
Japanese Macaque
Mandrill
Nyala
Polar Bear
Pronghorn
Red Panda
Red Ruffed Lemur
Ringtail Lemur
Snow Leopard
Springbok
Western lowland Gorilla
Medium
African Wild Dog
Aldabra Giant Tortoise (I'm not sure about this one generally, but I know that some tortoises can have really variant/interesting shells, and my google search suggests these guys can have some variation there, but it's hard for me to tell (especially since I can't really be sure if pic is labelled with the correct species))
Arctic Wolf
Bactrian Camel
Black Wildebeest
Chinese Pangolin (to my surprise these guys appear capable of ranging from black to tan?)
Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Same as above)
Gemsbok
Gharial
Greater Flamingo
Komodo Dragon
Nile Monitor
Reindeer
Reticulated Giraffe
Saltwater Crocodile
Siberian Tiger
Spotted Hyena
West African Lion (hoping for a black-maned male)
Western Chimpanzee
Major
Bengal Tiger (my fingers are crossed for golden tabby and psuedo-melanistic black tigers!)
Grizzly Bear
Indian Peafowl (there are so many varieties here and I'm hoping for all of them (however, since I believe many of these were selectively bred, I'm not sure that they'll be included), but special mention to the pied varieties)
Llama (hoping for painty and patchy fellows!)
Springbok (apparently they come in black and copper too)
Timber Wolf
So that is my mix of prediction and wish list for the color variants! What do you think, any alternative predictions you are championing? Got a color morph that I don't know about?