Good combos for multi-species habitats, other than African savannah

Jeminyne

Jeminyne
I know people have made charts and documentations of which animals can technically exist together. But what are your favorite combos? What discoveries have you made? What animals look best together, or at least make a decent amount of sense? I'm not discounting all animals from Africa. It's just the large African savannah animals (zebras, giraffes, antelopes, etc) that are too obvious.

I think the second most popular is mixing bison with pronghorn, and then the tapirs, anteaters, and capuchin monkeys. Personally I've found pygmy hippos and flamingos work great. Same with reindeer and dall sheep.

Also, what about future potential? I'm hoping for much more herbivorous forest animals in DLC (like deer) to mix with other herbivores, as well as Asian cranes and stuff for the red pandas... Indian deer and antelopes would also be great to mix with the Indian rhino.... we definitely need a lot more stuff besides Africa.
 

random goat

random goat
I recently tried to recreate one of my favourite zoo exhibits which is in Bioparc Valencia (pic in the spoiler). This zoo does pretty well at mixing species but this one in particular is great and mixes pigmy hippos, sitatunga, talapoins, some birds and even drils. I made my own version with pigmys, nyala, mandrils and flamingoes, which I find quite an interesting combination.
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SotF

SotF
For ones with bonus' you also have the kangaroo and koala exhibit.

I really like the larger multi-species habitats in my zoos...partially because I tend to like the 4x4 drive through and other transport vehicle options...
 

Aidan635

Aidan635
I think Bison & Pronghorn tend to go together really well, each one complementing each other very nicely. Also, the only other one I really find “realistic” is mixing both Ring Tailed and Red Ruffed Lemurs (technically African but ya get my point).
 

random goat

random goat
Cool Cats and Kittens said:
In real zoos, I liked manned wolves and giant anteaters in Leipzig
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Hmmm interesting, I didn't know of this one.
It seems rather odd to me. Giant anteaters are not on maned wolfs' menu, but what about newborns? Maybe I'm mistaken but I don't know why they'd take such a risk. Well, maybe they don't plan to breed anteaters at all...
 

Arrakai

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Whenever I make a new zoo I always use the same starting setup to generate some cash beofre building the "real" zoo and it involves some multi-species habitat and it always works great! (and it's easy to keep the animal welfare 100% with this setup)

Habitat 1: Red Panda and Chinese Pangolin
Habitat 2: Peafowls, Tortoises (usually aldabra) and Aardvark
Habitat 3: Cheetah

Then I always have one exibit too, with Brown snakes and Gila monster (+ of course loads of shops and a few toilets)

Set the animal aging to +5, set the speed to +3 and just watch the money roll in :)
 

Dukemon

Dukemon
Interesting. I am still stucking into Zoo Tycoon boundries. There you could very limited mixing animals. Oddly.
Red Pandas and Chinese Pangolin , good to know. Thank you.
 

Kolikokoli

Kolikokoli
I always make sure these are in one habitat:
  • Hippos + flamingoes (always, since PZ 1 :D)
  • Both lemurs
  • Bison + Pronghorn A.
  • I. Elephant + turtles
  • Tapir + turtles
  • Wildebeest + Warthog + Zebra
  • Springbok + Sable Antelope
  • A. Elephant + Ostrich
  • Bongo + Giraffe + Gazelle

Nyala in Safari habitat.

When I make big Indian habitat, I put there:
  • I. Elephant
  • Rhino
  • Turtles

I do not put Rhino and Peafowl in one habitat, since I like to do plains for Rhino and structured walkable habitat for Peafowl.

I always put Gharial at the entrance.
Camel right next to a Gemsbok
 
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sturmovik

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Side note to this: If you're doing a very large indoor building you can have crocodiles/gharials/caimans in their own lagoon-style habitat on the ground with free-roaming climbers (lemurs, mandrills, etc) above them. Technically that has to be a habitat inside another habitat, and there is a bug where the climbers can get stuck when they pass above the lower habitat, but the overall effect is very nice.
 

sturmovik

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Regarding my previous post, this is how this sort of thing can look. Unfortunately this building is far too large to upload to the workshop, but you get the idea.

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Firestar97

Firestar97
Once I've built a Pleistocene Enclosure where Bisons, Reindeer, Pronghorns and Indian Elephants lived together (I even had a Grizzly Bear in there for some Time and it worked due to the Bear being too scared of the Elephants and because of that not attacking any of the Animals. It was in the Arctic Project which has a Thread in the Forum (and I'm currently working on Arctic Project Reborn😉)


Jeminyne said:
I think the second most popular is mixing bison with pronghorn
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Funfact: this doesn't work in Real Life
 

nutrit

nutrit
I like to put:
  • Camels with African buffalo
  • African elephants with Gemsbok
  • Aadwark with Black wildebeast
  • Pygmy hippo with Nyala
  • Okapi with Bongo
  • Gemsbok with Springbok
  • Nyala with Mandrills
 

Firestar97

Firestar97
SalamAnders said:
Do you know why this doesn't work in real life? I am not doubting whatever it is true or not, I am just really curious about it. I don't know much about pronghorns in captivity, since we don't have any in European zoos.
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I'm currently not completely sure if I remember it correctly but I think it is because of the shy Nature of the Pronghorn and because they get stressed very easy. Walk through Enclosures with them do also not work in Real Life because they are stressed so easily and they also seem to be very territorial.

I'm also living in Europe, so I can only share Informations that I know from the Internet
 

SalamAnders

SalamAnders
Urufu1997 said:
I'm currently not completely sure if I remember it correctly but I think it is because of the shy Nature of the Pronghorn and because they get stressed very easy. Walk through Enclosures with them do also not work in Real Life because they are stressed so easily and they also seem to be very territorial.

I'm also living in Europe, so I can only share Informations that I know from the Internet
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I did some quick research on it now.

It seems like it has been done several times, but it has not been without complications.

I found this document from AZA about mixed habitats with ungulates in American zoos.
http://static1.squarespace.com/stat...late+TAGs+Mixed-Species+Manual+2017.final.pdf
A lot of people here would probably find it interesting

If you use the search tool in your browser, you can look for pronghorn. (Or another animal of interest)
 

nutrit

nutrit
My dream mixed exibits:
- Tufted deer with Red panda
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- Cheetah with White Rhino
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- Barbary sheep and Gelada
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- Nubian ibex and Hamadryas baboon
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- Orangutan and Siamang
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- Maned Wolf and Anteater or Maned Wolf and Brazilian tapir
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- Himalayan Black bear and hulman langur
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- Red River hog and Bat eared fox
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- Capybara and Nandu and Mara and Vicuña
 

Roxxsmom

Roxxsmom
The giant anteaters, tapirs and Capuchin monkeys provide interspecies bonuses in a rain forest type display. The only other "south American" non carnivore I can think of offhand is the Galapagos tortoise, and they seem to get stressed rather easily, and of course IRL they don't occupy the same habitat as these other species. The Galapagos islands are rather arid too, so I haven't tried adding them to the mix.

I think the game currently has so many more African species than it does species from other continents that it's harder to come up with the same variety of combinations outside the Savannah setting.

Has anyone tried Asian elephants and the Bactrian camels?
 
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