10 most common zoo species that are not in the game

nutrit

nutrit
Let’s find out what according to your opinions and observations are 10 the most common zoo species that are still not in the game.


In my opinion those species are:

1. Emu
2. Red necked wallaby
3. Small clawed otter
4. Peccary
5. Coati
6. Serval
7. Eland
8. Red River hog
9. Père David’s deer
10. Scimitar horned oryx
 

Mjmannella

Mjmannella
I'm going to go off of the ZooTierListe listing in this thread. Note that it'll be eliminating animals that can't work in the game's current system and animals already in the game:
  1. African pygmy goat
  2. Emu
  3. Bennett's Wallaby
  4. Common Raccoon
  5. White Stork
  6. Golden Pheasant
  7. Mandarin Duck
  8. Ring-tailed Coati
  9. European Mouflon (actually a feral population of domestic sheep but this wasn't known until recently)
  10. Greater Rhea
It should be noted that this is largely focusing on European holdings. If American zoos were added to the equation the results would likely be pretty different. But the results we do have are pretty telling what what animals are common in zoos. For me it's the fact that half the list is birds, which are something I agree are sorely needed additions. African pygmy goats being the literal most common zoo animal also lends me to think PZ could stand to use a fair amount of more domesticated animals.
 

Alexjh

Alexjh
Kinda depends on how you are counting? Like, most individual animals or most zoos containing those animals?

Either way, I suspect you'd end up with a list of mostly birds?

Off the top of my head
  • Budgies
  • Scarlet Macaw
  • Snowy Owl
  • Golden Pheasant
  • Lady Amherst's Pheasant
  • Grey Crowned Crane
  • Some penguin sp not currently featured
  • American Flamingo

Then:
  • Leopard
  • Red-necked Wallaby
 

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
nutrit said:
Let’s find out what according to your opinions and observations are 10 the most common zoo species that are still not in the game.


In my opinion those species are:

1. Emu
2. Red necked wallaby
3. Small clawed otter
4. Peccary
5. Coati
6. Serval
7. Eland
8. Red River hog
9. Père David’s deer
10. Scimitar horned oryx
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It's very interesting to me that your list doesn't match my zoo experience whatsoever. Aside from the emu and wallaby, I don't believe I've seen any of those species at more than a single zoo, if that. Granted, my perspective is heavily focused on the southeastern US... it just always fascinates me how much these things vary by region. From my own anecdotal perspective, for non-domestic habitat species, it'd look something like this, roughly in order:
  1. Emu
  2. North American river otter
  3. American black bear
  4. Bennett's wallaby
  5. White-tailed deer
  6. Coyote
  7. Bobcat
  8. Gray fox
  9. Fishing cat
  10. Capybara
Alpacas, dromedaries, goats, and pigs would've certainly made the list if I were including domestics. Perhaps cattle, donkeys, and horses as well.

It's particularly notable that the list includes a whopping six native species. I've mentioned it before, but the base game and Arctic/Aquatic Pack NA roster didn't do a very good job of representing what I've personally seen in zoos: a few polar bears, only a single location with grizzlies and wolves each, and some non-AZA reindeer that I'm not even sure if they should really count since they were only ever at Christmas-related events. The NA pack did help a lot in this regard, bringing in the much more common sea lion, alligator, cougar, and prairie dogs... but the other three species were also ones that I've never seen in captivity. Anyway, I'm not exactly hoping for the NA species on my list in any real capacity besides maybe the bear at this point, but there's still plenty of room to add in more NA species that are very much reflective of what are commonly held in zoos here.

If I were to list only non-NA species, it'd probably end up including:
  • Siamang
  • Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
  • Serval
  • Black-handed spider monkey
  • Ocelot
  • Cape porcupine
 

Hugo98

Hugo98
Mjmannella said:
I'm going to go off of the ZooTierListe listing in this thread. Note that it'll be eliminating animals that can't work in the game's current system and animals already in the game:
  1. African pygmy goat
  2. Emu
  3. Bennett's Wallaby
  4. Common Raccoon
  5. White Stork
  6. Golden Pheasant
  7. Mandarin Duck
  8. Ring-tailed Coati
  9. European Mouflon (actually a feral population of domestic sheep but this wasn't known until recently)
  10. Greater Rhea
It should be noted that this is largely focusing on European holdings. If American zoos were added to the equation the results would likely be pretty different. But the results we do have are pretty telling what what animals are common in zoos. For me it's the fact that half the list is birds, which are something I agree are sorely needed additions. African pygmy goats being the literal most common zoo animal also lends me to think PZ could stand to use a fair amount of more domesticated animals.
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Those bird species are even mostly or only ground living, so we wouldn't even need new flying mechanics for those and they could be added with relatively low effort.
 

ElectricMonk

ElectricMonk
My vague impression of zoos worldwide (excluding flying birds and fully aquatic species):
1) Emu
2) Bennett’s wallaby
3) Serval
4) Ring tailed coati
5) Asian short-claw otter
6) Lar gibbon
7) Dromedary
8) Tamarin (combining various species)
9) Peccary
10) Eland

for zoos near me / that I have substantial direct experience of I’d have to swap in Common Wombat, Tasmanian Devil, Eastern Grey Kangaroo and Echidna; removing Eland, paccary, gibbon and coati.
 

TheYeti

TheYeti
Mjmannella said:
I'm going to go off of the ZooTierListe listing in this thread. Note that it'll be eliminating animals that can't work in the game's current system and animals already in the game:
  1. African pygmy goat
  2. Emu
  3. Bennett's Wallaby
  4. Common Raccoon
  5. White Stork
  6. Golden Pheasant
  7. Mandarin Duck
  8. Ring-tailed Coati
  9. European Mouflon (actually a feral population of domestic sheep but this wasn't known until recently)
  10. Greater Rhea
It should be noted that this is largely focusing on European holdings. If American zoos were added to the equation the results would likely be pretty different. But the results we do have are pretty telling what what animals are common in zoos. For me it's the fact that half the list is birds, which are something I agree are sorely needed additions. African pygmy goats being the literal most common zoo animal also lends me to think PZ could stand to use a fair amount of more domesticated animals.
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Interesting that mouflons are on there. I've mainly visited European zoos but never saw them.

Based on zoos I've visited (mainly Dutch and Singaporean), my list is the following:
  1. Pelican (mostly great white pelican)
  2. Emu
  3. Capybara
  4. Squirrel Monkey
  5. Bennett's Wallaby
  6. Asian Small-clawed Otter
  7. Ring-tailed Coati
  8. Gibbon (mostly siamang)
  9. Mute Swan or Black Swan
  10. Helmeted Guineafowl
An honourable mention to the Patagonian mara, who just falls outside of the list.

I haven't included small waterfowl, aviary birds, fully aquatic animals, exhibit animals or domestic animals.
 

Doran

Doran
Most common zoo animal must also be found in South American. African and Asian collections. Based purely on my observations.
1. Bennet's Wallaby
2. Emu
3. Coati
4. Tamarins (cotton-top and lion)
5. Serval
7. Squirrel Monkey
8. Common Marmoset
9. Gibbon (Lar has most presence worldwide)
10. Crested Porcupine (mostly indian)
 

Mjmannella

Mjmannella
Hugo98 said:
Those bird species are even mostly or only ground living, so we wouldn't even need new flying mechanics for those and they could be added with relatively low effort.
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There were a few aviary bird species I excluded due to requiring mechanics currently not present (mainly parrots and owls).
Sidenote: the list I posted was using outdated information. Using the data currently on their site provides the following list (with the same modifications):
  1. African Pygmy Goat
  2. Domestic Rabbit
  3. Emu
  4. Donkey
  5. Shetland Pony
  6. Common Raccoon
  7. Bennett's Wallaby
  8. Alpaca
  9. Golden Pheasant
  10. Chicken
Most strikingly is there being a vast increase in domestic species, occupying 6 spots in this Top 10. Reweighting the list to exclude domestic species gives us the following bellow golden pheasants:
  1. Mandarin Duck
  2. White Stork
  3. European Mouflon*
  4. Ring-tailed Coati
  5. Greater Rhea
  6. Black Swan
Note that the swan is the only new entry from the earlier list. Though if I removed the pygmy goat from that list wild boars would've been in the #10 spot instead.
 
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becks474

B
The list depends own my own Zoo experiences

1. Emu
2. Pelican
3. Goose
4. Sloth
5. Leopard
6. Crane
7. Wallaby
8. Baboon or Gelada
9. Spectacled Bear
10. Maned Wolf
 

Anthracite_Impreza

Anthracite_Impreza
I'm not gonna try to make a list cos I'm not really good at quantifying, but practically every zoo I've ever been to you get about 10 species of pheasant, capybara, wallabies (almost always Bennett's), emu, several birds of prey, some smaller birds, ducks, geese and swans (granted they're usually habituated wild animals, but they still live, breed and are fed in the zoo so I say they count), and lechwe. Always lechwe.
 

nutrit

nutrit
Emu
Rhea
Coati
Peccary
Red necked wallaby
Serval

All these species were present in nearly every zoo I have ever visited. None of these species are in the game though 🤷🏽
 

Pentoleaf

Pentoleaf
Emu
Rhea
Wallaby
Red River Hog
Squirrel Monkey
Multiple pheasants
Multiple ducks and waterfowl
Domestic goats
Domestic donkey
A tank of giant rescue goldfish reminding people to not mess up wetlands ecosystems (and to generally not be terrible) by releasing unwanted pets.
 

Swiftie_Midnights_

Swiftie_Midnights_
  1. Crested porcupine / Cape porcupine
  2. Mallard
  3. domestic goat
  4. pelican
  5. Capybara
  6. Leopard (Amur, African and more...)
  7. Domestic donkey
  8. Burmese python
These are animals that I have mostly seen in a lot of zoos that are not in the game yet and I so hope that in the future we will get them 💚 🤞
 

Aidan635

Aidan635
These are just based on my personal zoo experiences, and zoos I’ve seen online. I’ve also excluded birds because yeah I think it’s pretty self explanatory. Here they are in no particular order…

1. Capybara
2. Some species of Langur (Francois is the only one I really know of)
3. Colobus Monkey
4. Red River Hog (Omg Frontier, just add them in already!)
5. Blue Wildebeest (But I think it’s unnecessary since we already have the Black Wildebeest)
6. Some small species of African ungulate (Dik Dik, Diker, Sititunga, or other small ungulate)
7. North American River Otter or Asian Small Clawed Otter
8. Takin (I feel like they’re actually kinda common in zoos)
9. Dromedary Camel
10. Gibbon (mostly Lar or the Black & White Cheeked)

Obviously there are plenty more, but these are the ones that just came to the top of my head.
 

Antimony96

Antimony96
From my rough knowledge of North American zoos, a top 10 (excluding the obvious domestic candidates like dwarf goats) might look like this:

1. Capybara
2. Dromedary camel
3. Crested porcupine
4. Asian small-clawed otter OR North American river otter (but I'd go with the former since it's more common globally)
5. Mantled guereza
6. Golden lion tamarin
7. Grey crowned crane
8. Greater rhea
9. Amur leopard
10. Patagonian mara
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
Since it seems everyone is regionalising their lists (i.e. going with what's common in their particular area, rather than zoos as a whole), I'll say the North Island brown kiwi.
 
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