🐾 Planet Zoo: Africa Pack arriving 22 June 🐾

[WingardiumLevicoaster]

Please can we stay on topic and stop trying to override each others opinions. Each person has their own ideas and the game as a diverse playerbase with different types of players. Discuss don't dominate.

 

[Firestar97]

they are completely extinct in EUA, and majority of mexico, and the remaining population there lives in rain forest areas with some exceptions, but they are a different sub-species

I've read some Time ago that there are also at least a few Jaguars still living in Arizona (but I think for a long Time it was believed that they are completely extinct there)

Well, it's mostly African animals right now. We've got:

• African elephant
• African wild dog
• Bactrian camel
• Cheetah
• Common ostrich
• Dingo
• Gemsbok
• Red kangaroo
• Springbok

With the additions of:

• Fennec fox
• Meerkat
• Southern white rhino

And also, the following animals need to have the desert tag added (this would be a good update for it to happen):

• American bison
• Jaguar
• Pronghorn

So there's a decent slant towards Africa, which gets bigger with this dlc. I'd imagine this is a prime opportunity to add those desert tags to those existing animals and add more desert foliage (especially from Africa).

Bison, Jaguar and Pronghorn can be perfectly kept in Desert Enclosures. Have all 3 of them in my Desert Zoo. But they definitely need that Tag. Not completely sure about the Bison but the other 2 definitely need it

 

[Birini]

I've read some Time ago that there are also at least a few Jaguars still living in Arizona (but I think for a long Time it was believed that they are completely extinct there)


Bison, Jaguar and Pronghorn can be perfectly kept in Desert Enclosures. Have all 3 of them in my Desert Zoo. But they definitely need that Tag. Not completely sure about the Bison but the other 2 definitely need it

Definitely agree on the Pronghorn. I would love to do a Sonoran desert zoo but doubt we’ll ever have the requisite animals.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Definitely agree on the Pronghorn. I would love to do a Sonoran desert zoo but doubt we’ll ever have the requisite animals.

Tbh a sonoran desert dlc sounds great With picks like the collared pekari, roadrunners and thouse rabbits With the really long ears.
Maybe something like a bobcat as a predator and it sounds like it could be a fine pack with great foliage and pieces!

 

[Birini]

Tbh a sonoran desert dlc sounds great With picks like the collared pekari, roadrunners and thouse rabbits With the really long ears.
Maybe something like a bobcat as a predator and it sounds like it could be a fine pack with great foliage and pieces!

I would adore it but not sure it makes it. My own personal picks would be to add Mexican wolf to bobcat, roadrunner, and jackrabbits

 

[Birini]

My dream scenario would be they keep going with animal packs for quite a while but history doesn’t suggest it will happen

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Optimism my friend optimism, never forget we still have the element of money on our side.
As long as the dlc sell well we can proppably expect more to come

 

[HeatherG]

Can we complain that the Binturong isn’t fluffy enough?

hmmmmm, you can try.....

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Btw, kinda cute thing i noticed is that it seems like most people are longing for their local wildlife, which i do belive is quite whoulesome

 

[Bearcat9948]

they are completely extinct in EUA, and majority of mexico, and the remaining population there lives in rain forest areas with some exceptions, but they are a different sub-species

This is getting a bit off topic, but your claim is entirely false. I'll be addressing this in my next small changes list, assuming it isn't updated in 1.6, which hopefully it will be. I've been asking for the jaguar to get the desert tag since last August.

There is a limited number of jaguars present in the Southwester United States, concentrated mostly in Arizona, near the US-Mexico border. Furthermore, there is a breeding population of roughly 200 individuals in Sonora, Mexico. The Sierra Madre is able to be classified as a desert.

There are numerous rewilding conservation projects in both the US and Mexico to increase and stabilize populations of jaguars and ocelots in the two countries deserts.

There is plenty of current physical proof, plus overwhelming historical data, that prove jaguars can easily adapt, survive and thrive in desert ecosystems, which I believe justifies them getting the desert tag.

 

[Birini]

hmmmmm, you can try.....

Also, the leopard looks too much like a penguin

 

[Utahraptor Arcanus]

I've read some Time ago that there are also at least a few Jaguars still living in Arizona (but I think for a long Time it was believed that they are completely extinct there)


Bison, Jaguar and Pronghorn can be perfectly kept in Desert Enclosures. Have all 3 of them in my Desert Zoo. But they definitely need that Tag. Not completely sure about the Bison but the other 2 definitely need it

apparently the map i used is out of date, whatever, the jaguar population in Arizona and mexico it's tiny and is a different sub specie, than the ones present in the game

 

[Utahraptor Arcanus]

This is getting a bit off topic, but your claim is entirely false. I'll be addressing this in my next small changes list, assuming it isn't updated in 1.6, which hopefully it will be. I've been asking for the jaguar to get the desert tag since last August.

There is a limited number of jaguars present in the Southwester United States, concentrated mostly in Arizona, near the US-Mexico border. Furthermore, there is a breeding population of roughly 200 individuals in Sonora, Mexico. The Sierra Madre is able to be classified as a desert.

There are numerous rewilding conservation projects in both the US and Mexico to increase and stabilize populations of jaguars and ocelots in the two countries deserts.

There is plenty of current physical proof, plus overwhelming historical data, that prove jaguars can easily adapt, survive and thrive in desert ecosystems, which I believe justifies them getting the desert tag.

the affirmation is in fact half wrong, there apparently a little population of jaguars in Arizona (although it is small) but the north america jaguars and the south america jaguars (The ones in game) are two different subspecies, also the jaguar desert population is even tiny

 

[NZFanatic]

apparently the map i used is out of date, whatever, the jaguar population in Arizona and mexico it's tiny and is a different sub specie, than the ones present in the game

The one in the game doesn't have a subspecies, it's just the generic Panthera onca.

 

[Utahraptor Arcanus]

The one in the game doesn't have a subspecies, it's just the generic Panthera onca.

and the west African lion is as panthera leo leo

 

[Bearcat9948]

The one in the game doesn't have a subspecies, it's just the generic Panthera onca.

Beat me to it lol.

The jaguar was declared "monotypic taxon" in 2017, meaning all populations are considered to be same, no subspecies are recognized. The 2013 ZT game, which had multiple subspecies of jaguar, would now be considered incorrect and out of date. Another point in favor of the jaguar getting that desert tag.

Edit: @Utahraptor104 I wouldn't normally flex this, but I promise you I know that I'm right here. I wrote a research paper on rewilding in America, and this was an extensive part of that.

 

[Utahraptor Arcanus]

also they come in the south america pack

 

[ElectricMonk]

and the west African lion is as panthera leo leo

… and is, therefore, a subspecies of lion (Panthera leo)

 

[Utahraptor Arcanus]

Beat me to it lol.

The jaguar was declared "monotypic taxon" in 2017, meaning all populations are considered to be same, no subspecies are recognized. The 2013 ZT game, which had multiple subspecies of jaguar, would now be considered incorrect and out of date. Another point in favor of the jaguar getting that desert tag.

Edit: @Utahraptor104 I wouldn't normally flex this, but I promise you I know that I'm right here. I wrote a research paper on rewilding in America, and this was an extensive part of that.

ok, you beat me, I must admit you are probably right.

Also you still have the research? i really want to read.

 

[Bearcat9948]

ok, you beat me, I must admit you are probably right.

Lol, it's all good. I'm sure you know things that I don't, I just happen to really love the idea of rewilding conservation so I know a lot about that topic. Glad you could learn something new!