I don't know what it is now, but it should be at least the same as the lion/African elephant/gorilla. At least
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When it comes to swimming and deepdiving I would also like to see some more interactions in the water that aren't just a form of locomotion.
Tigers play-fighting, hippos and crocodiles sleeping underwater (not sure if hippos do the first, haven't played long enough with them to know), stuff like that.
Tigers play-fighting, hippos and crocodiles sleeping underwater (not sure if hippos do the first, haven't played long enough with them to know), stuff like that.
Technically they are. All the tigers, except for the Sumatran, belong to the same subspecies, Panthera tigris tigris. The Sumatran is Panthera tigris sondaica.
I understand your point, though. Frontier deliberately split P. t. tigris between two subpopulations. Though, I will say that it seems clear they did this because of outdated information (IIRC the Siberian tiger is still listed as P. t. altaica in the Zoopedia). In real life there isn't a huge morphological difference between the various mainland tiger subpopulations, which is why I wish I could go back in time and just make them add the Sumatran instead of the Bengal.
Right now it’s 5625 it should be atleast 7500 like the lion polar bear and African Bush Elephant but honestly it should be way higher than them too. The crowds pandas draw in zoos are ridiculous
I agree! Given their political status and rarity they should definitely be one of the biggest draws for crowds.
Sri Lankan elephants are actually the largest living subspecies of Asian elephant. The Indian subspecies are a middle-ground between Sri Lankan and Sumatran.
Love these threads!
Quality of life request: Have a toggle on exhibits and habitats to send newborns and/or newly matured animals to the trading center automatically (to help with those high birthrate animals you need for conservation credits). I dont believe this would take away from the management aspect as it is replacing something that is brainless and tedious and would actually open up time better spent on building and monitoring guests.
New Feature Request: Theaters would make a great guest activity to watch nature documentaries and could be handled by simple 8x8(or 16) meter sized buildings that guests could enter and exit after a short while. No need to even have animations, just have the guests pop in and out like bathrooms.
Bug Fix Request: Animals frequently register as escaped when climbing even though they are still smack dab in the middle of the habitat. This kills zoo performance when its a "dangerous" animal sending 25% of guests running out of the zoo in terror.
Quality of life request: Have a toggle on exhibits and habitats to send newborns and/or newly matured animals to the trading center automatically (to help with those high birthrate animals you need for conservation credits). I dont believe this would take away from the management aspect as it is replacing something that is brainless and tedious and would actually open up time better spent on building and monitoring guests.
New Feature Request: Theaters would make a great guest activity to watch nature documentaries and could be handled by simple 8x8(or 16) meter sized buildings that guests could enter and exit after a short while. No need to even have animations, just have the guests pop in and out like bathrooms.
Bug Fix Request: Animals frequently register as escaped when climbing even though they are still smack dab in the middle of the habitat. This kills zoo performance when its a "dangerous" animal sending 25% of guests running out of the zoo in terror.
I apologize the lion polar bear elephant and gorilla are tied for the highest with 6750 not 7500 but the panda should definitely be at that number or higher to be more popular than they are
The moose conservation status in-game is currently set to "near threatened" but on the PZ website and IUCN has them as Least concerned
I found it! Its the last campaign map with the small island. Sad, that this is such a small map.
Out of curiosity, does the IUCN differentiate between subspecies? Because based on other things I've seen, it looks like the moose was intended as being Alces alces gigas, the Alaskan moose, but was later changed to just be the generic Alces alces. So I wonder if, like the habitat information board, the conservation status is left over from that original designation.
The Redlist usually doesn't involve subspecies, though there's roughly 2,700 subspecies pages on their website
Yeah the Alaskan subspecies is near threatened. I don't know if they would change it to Alaskan moose, because the model might need to be sized up a bit for that to be true (they are the largest subspecies) and it seems clear here they wanted it to be used as a European and Asian animal too. I've said before I dislike using generic species names in place of specific subspecies, but it is what it is. Given that we've found Alaskan moose references in the old game code, it seems obvious this was retroactively made as a conscious decision so I don't see it changing.
I think for this, I'll just add North American prairie to the list of new appropriate backgrounds to create. Temperate and grassland maps are really the only ones that are bad for this.
I like the first QoL idea. As far as the movie theaters go, with the new guest stands and custom billboards you can just build your own, I don't think it's worth having that as a new type of attraction or feature, especially if it's just a shell building and you can't see what's going on inside.
For the bug you talked about, is that just when using null barriers, or is it when you use physical barriers?
I like this, I'll add these and if I can think of any more that might be appropriate (or if anyone else does)
How about enrichments that behave like Jacuzzis? Like a hot tub? Prefect for Japanese macaques and any other animal that hangs out in warm/hot water
Yes, the IUCN will even deal with Evolutionary Significant Units (ESU's). Which are basically populations. Like Bornean Pygmy Elephant a ESU of the Sumatran Elephant subspecies.
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Hi @Bearcat9948, I have another suggestion. What about bringing color variations to the Lehmann's Poison Frog (and maybe also the Golden Poison Frog)? In the Zoopedia, they mention the fact that they come in different colormorphs in the wild. I guess it should not be too much work for the devs to do that and we would then have more frog diversity without the need to add new species (even though I'm not opposed to the inclusion of more frog species).
Lol, are you saying this because they were already leaked?
Unfortunately, as you alluded to, I don't think they'd do this. None of the exhibit animals have any color variations besides the ones that have albinism, which is mostly the snakes plus a few others.
What, they were?!
, I had no idea