I think it's possible, especially if they add the tuatara as the exhibit animal instead of another Australian species (though there are iconic Australian exhibit animals obviously missing, in terms of representation it's not too bad; two snakes, a lizard, and an invertebrate). Regardless of what we as a community think, Frontier considers the exhibit animals to be 'full animals' (hence why they advertise animal packs as having "eight new animals" not "seven new habitat and one new exhibit animals"), so I could totally see them putting in the kiwi and tuatara and considering that two animals representing New Zealand.
You have also included the Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo which is native to Papa New Guinea. I feel that the Kiwi could be added to make it an Oceania Pack. However I agree that there are too many missing Australian animals to make it an Oceanic pack. I don’t know what you could swap out to include the Kiwi, maybe the echidna, but I would hate to miss out on it too. I would add the Lace monitor or perentie instead of the Tree Kangaroo if you were going to make it purely Australian. Or a Bennett’s or Lumholtz tree kangaroo, the only native Australian tree kangaroos. Both of which I’m not sure if they are held captive anywhere.
Again, though, both the tree kangaroo and kiwi rank higher on the meta wishlist, which is the single best source we have for community priorities, than either the wallaby or echidna, which heavily implies that you could remove either of those two and replace it with a more popular animal without anyone getting too up-in-arms about it. Keep in mind that only Australian zoos feature hugely extensive Australian collections. Most overseas zoos have a more standard representation. New Zealand is even worse off - outside of flying birds the only species in captivity outside of NZ itself are the kiwi and tuatara (and the kunekune pig, but domestic breeds are neither here or there).
Yaa just maybe East Asia Pack. Majority I love what he made, but many include an Japanese (serow).
Actually i agree. I would love any species of gibbon and i think is one of the most requested animals (and high priority on my wishlist as well).
I didn't make it, though I might later today, the thing is I was thinking that if they went through this line of thinking that I laid out above, both a kiwi and a takahe could fit into an Endangered Species Animal Pack. You can also throw a gibbon in there.
I'm just gonna make a new thread with biome themes tbh haha
Please do so haha, I'd love to see the differences in how those would look!
Remember 4 popular ones and 3 weirdos.
You're right, though I would argue that the low-effort picks in the NA pack are leaps and bounds ahead of those in the SEA pack. The alligator is absolutely stunning in its detail, whereas the tapir and binturong have had... a troubled past and present in-game.
