Waterfronts Pack

[SotF]

This is more of an aquatic pack 2 that aims for a spread of animals for it that would be useful to have with the water.

Animals
Pacific Walrus (Title Animal, something a lot of people would love to see)
Long Tailed Macaque/Crab Eating Macaque (A monkey that tends to dive and forage from the water, something that would be a unique thing there)
Capybara (They're a very interesting animal to see and common in zoos)
Atlantic Puffin (Often paired with penguins, and adds a different option that can blend with the penguins already in the game)
Alligator Snapping Turtle (Combined exhibit with the american alligator, and looks quite impressive)
White Pelican (While flight would be nice, a lot of these have clipped feathers in zoos...and are common in african savannah exhibits)
Japanese Giant Salamander (It's a relatively unique option for a species)

Exhibit
Hermit Crab (A new type of species and one that can be interesting despite being relatively common)

New Feeder
Shoreline Scavenger: Both a herbivorous and carnivorous option, both feeder and enrichment for species that often scavenge there.

Upgraded Feature
Aquatic Tunnels: Easier pathing for creating underwater tunnels, along with "glass" paths that allow looking through the floor of the path into exhibits. Also a few variants of tunnel designs with existing themes.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

That pack honestly sounds really great, lot of cool animals to have.
I especally like the monkey, a really cool pick and new monkeys are allways in demand

 

[Baryonix82]

• Platypus
• Southern elephant sea (The male of this subspecies is the largest pinniped that exists today and, probably, also the largest that has existed in the history of planet Earth)
• Fishing cat
• Roseate spoonbill
• Water anole [exhibition] (The species appears to have formed an underwater breathing system consisting of an air bubble attached to its head)
  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeFRs_0RZM8
  
• Atlantic mudskipper [exhibition]
  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQuoH_fOWM
  
• Marsh deer
• Waterbuck

 

[SotF]

• Platypus
• Southern elephant sea (The male of this subspecies is the largest pinniped that exists today and, probably, also the largest that has existed in the history of planet Earth)
• Fishing cat
• Roseate spoonbill
• Water anole [exhibition] (The species appears to have formed an underwater breathing system consisting of an air bubble attached to its head)
  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeFRs_0RZM8
• Atlantic mudskipper [exhibition]
  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQuoH_fOWM
• Marsh deer
• Waterbuck

Mudskippers aren't that good of an option for the idea, unless there's more fish. They also tend to hit a potential size issue that would make them difficult to actually see which is something I've disliked about a few of the exhibit animals. The anole would be neat, the reason I went for the hermit crab is that they're also a very different appearance to what we already have, the water anole is one I'd worry would be viewed as more of just another lizard at this point.

Platypus would be a good option, though it's something I was kind of leery of with its size for a habitat animal and it's primarily aquatic behavior mixed with tunneling...it's something that isn't easily visible in the exhibits because of it, though it was something I was juggling with the Alligator Snapping Turtle, which beat it out in the idea because it's a larger animal that would be more visible, along with the ability to share and exhibit with other animals.

Same with the Fishing Cat, though the fishing cat might work better with other types of packs and I already had several predators in the pack...plus it's one that hits the potential mess with zoos because they don't always adapt well to not having live prey.

The elephant seal is a good one, though I'd put them behind the walrus and harbor seals for zoo habitats. While the Walrus doesn't work well in shared exhibits, you can cohabitate harbor seals with grey seals and sea lions, and I like the ability to have the massive enclosures with different species in it even with ones that don't always do so in the wild.

The spoonbills are ones that I wasn't sure about and were some of the several species of waterbirds that could work, unfortunately, they're more fliers and I didn't really want to have them until we got aviaries and flight mechanics. A lot of zoos have the white and pink pelicans in open exhibits similar to how flamingos and peafowl are, though many have their pin feathers clipped early on and even if they regrow aren't going to fly away that well. If there was flight, I would have been far more tempted to add actual seagulls to it considering the sculptures of them in game.

For the marsh deer and waterbuck, they would fit, but I wasn't sure how much of the deep dive they'd be able to use. I know they swim, but I wasn't sure about them actually diving for things.

 

[yoav_r]

• Platypus
• Southern elephant sea (The male of this subspecies is the largest pinniped that exists today and, probably, also the largest that has existed in the history of planet Earth)
• Fishing cat
• Roseate spoonbill
• Water anole [exhibition] (The species appears to have formed an underwater breathing system consisting of an air bubble attached to its head)
  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeFRs_0RZM8
• Atlantic mudskipper [exhibition]
  Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAQuoH_fOWM
• Marsh deer
• Waterbuck

Mudskippers are so great! Wish we had them as exhibits

 

[Firestar97]

This is more of an aquatic pack 2 that aims for a spread of animals for it that would be useful to have with the water.

Animals
Pacific Walrus (Title Animal, something a lot of people would love to see)
Long Tailed Macaque/Crab Eating Macaque (A monkey that tends to dive and forage from the water, something that would be a unique thing there)
Capybara (They're a very interesting animal to see and common in zoos)
Atlantic Puffin (Often paired with penguins, and adds a different option that can blend with the penguins already in the game)
Alligator Snapping Turtle (Combined exhibit with the american alligator, and looks quite impressive)
White Pelican (While flight would be nice, a lot of these have clipped feathers in zoos...and are common in african savannah exhibits)
Japanese Giant Salamander (It's a relatively unique option for a species)

Exhibit
Hermit Crab (A new type of species and one that can be interesting despite being relatively common)

New Feeder
Shoreline Scavenger: Both a herbivorous and carnivorous option, both feeder and enrichment for species that often scavenge there.

Upgraded Feature
Aquatic Tunnels: Easier pathing for creating underwater tunnels, along with "glass" paths that allow looking through the floor of the path into exhibits. Also a few variants of tunnel designs with existing themes.

The Walrus is definitely needed. The Macaque would also be great. Maybe they could give the Japanese Macaque a Update to give them the Ability to swim (they can do this in Real Life). They could also finally get a Hot Spring Enrichment (I think Capybaras like those too).
The only Problem I have with the Selection is the Hermit Crab because I think they can't breed in Captivity or do it so rarely that the Pet Trade needs wild caught ones all the Time. Maybe something like a Crab, a Lobster or finally a Fish

 

[SotF]

The Walrus is definitely needed. The Macaque would also be great. Maybe they could give the Japanese Macaque a Update to give them the Ability to swim (they can do this in Real Life). They could also finally get a Hot Spring Enrichment (I think Capybaras like those too).
The only Problem I have with the Selection is the Hermit Crab because I think they can't breed in Captivity or do it so rarely that the Pet Trade needs wild caught ones all the Time. Maybe something like a Crab, a Lobster or finally a Fish

I was actually thinking of the salt water/brackish ones rather than the normal ones. They're mainly used as a cleanup crew in saltwater tanks, I'm pretty sure those do breed.

I was originally going to go with the Cave Tetra for something extremely unique and the right size, but I wasn't sure if a fish would actually be a good idea.

 

[Firestar97]

I was originally going to go with the Cave Tetra for something extremely unique and the right size, but I wasn't sure if a fish would actually be a good idea.

Do you mean Astyanax jordani? Those are so cool.
The Cave like Tank Design could also be reused for something like a Olm (even though this seems to be only kept in 3 Zoos currently) or Texas blind salamander (and this isn't even on Zootierliste.de). If they would be more common in Captivity, they would be awesome Inclusions

 

[SotF]

Do you mean Astyanax jordani? Those are so cool.
The Cave like Tank Design could also be reused for something like a Olm (even though this seems to be only kept in 3 Zoos currently) or Texas blind salamander (and this isn't even on Zootierliste.de). If they would be more common in Captivity, they would be awesome Inclusions

Yeah, and they're rather easy to actually get ahold of, they breed rather well in captivity, but are really neat to look at.

Until relatively recently, the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History had a pretty large tank of the cave tetras as part of their cave stuff, I don't know if it's still there or not because they did a massive rework of the cave and that entire area along with their ice age/glacier trail one. I haven't been there since they opened the revamp and am planning on heading there soon.

In high school, one of the teachers had a 400 gallon tank of them in his classroom because he liked them and that classroom didn't have any windows, so was called a cave as a joke early on...then he kind of decorated it, entirely, as one...to the point that when he retired the next teacher was not pleased trying to get the paper mache stalagtites off the ceiling.

 

[Firestar97]

In high school, one of the teachers had a 400 gallon tank of them in his classroom because he liked them and that classroom didn't have any windows, so was called a cave as a joke early on...then he kind of decorated it, entirely, as one...to the point that when he retired the next teacher was not pleased trying to get the paper mache stalagtites off the ceiling.

This is hilarious

 

[SotF]

This is hilarious

His brother was also teaching and had the entire room decorated like a medieval castle, though he was one of the english teachers...those two were the only ones that went all out at decorating and theming their classrooms. Only the Bio and Chem teachers weren't really allowed to do so since they had rooms that doubled as labs, but were allowed to have some decorations around, just heavily limited due to it.