Which in-game species have you seen IRL?

Twilight Pack update. I've seen racoons and red foxes both in zoos and the wild, but skunks are zoo-only. Well, I've seen them dead on the side of the road, and I've certainly smelled them in the wild before, but I'm not counting those. And unsurprisingly, the wombat is a no-go, although I have seen the southern hairy-nosed species.

Also in my first post I mentioned that I'd be getting another chance to see a particular zoo's Eurasian lynx later this year. That wound up being today, and once again it was nowhere to be seen. Bummer. I doubt I'll get another shot at it for a while.

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Here's my update for the Twilight Pack. I've only seen two animals from the pack IRL, the red fox and the common wombat, and of those two I've only seen the fox in the wild while I've seen the wombat in both the wild and captivity. Red foxes appear to be surprisingly rare in Australian zoos given the abundance of the wild invasive population, but I guess most people wouldn't be interested in seeing the animal that slaughters all the possums and bandicoots in their backyard in a zoo.

I've also changed up the structure of my tierlist a bit this time to include some additional categories. Now I've also listed distinct species for which I've seen a virtually identical relative IRL (Sumatran orangutan, Aruba Island rattlesnake and domestic water buffalo in this case), and I've divided the animals I haven't seen by whether or not they are kept in Australia. There's actually only a small number of PZ species present in Australian collections that I haven't seen yet.

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EDIT: Forgot to mention I'm now also including the species I saw at Sea World (distinct from the American franchise) when I visited it as a kid, which adds polar bear and California sea lion to my list
 
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Im honestly surprised that there arnt red foxes in australian zoos, as the racoons are very abundant in european zoos BECAUSE they are invasive animals.
If we catch a racoon, he either gets killed or gets castrated and put in a zoo and thats why we got so many of them eventhough they arnt bred.
Imo its the best solution for invasive species as they need to be removed from the wild but mass killing them, while effective is just incredibly cruel to these species that have no fault for being a problem as humans where those that introduced them.
 
Im honestly surprised that there arnt red foxes in australian zoos, as the racoons are very abundant in european zoos BECAUSE they are invasive animals.
If we catch a racoon, he either gets killed or gets castrated and put in a zoo and thats why we got so many of them eventhough they arnt bred.
Imo its the best solution for invasive species as they need to be removed from the wild but mass killing them, while effective is just incredibly cruel to these species that have no fault for being a problem as humans where those that introduced them.
They're not absent in Australian zoos, just quite rare - the Exotic Mammals in Australian Zoos thread on ZooChat only lists them being kept at 3 fairly small zoos (also noting they may be housed in other small collections), and I've certainly never been to a zoo that had them.

And of course I would rather an invasive fox be taken into captivity than killed, but it would have no impact on wild populations (unless you can both capture and find space to house 1.7 million foxes) so it's not doing anything for conservation either way. The fact we have to cull any animal sucks but when foxes and cats in Australia collectively kill almost as many vertebrates as the 2019-2020 bushfires (2.6 billion vs 3 billion) each year, something has to be done. 10% of the Australian mammal species that were alive at the time of European settlement have already been driven extinct, predominantly thanks to invasive predators, we really can't afford to loose anything else. However, this isn't really the place to discuss the ethics of invasive species control.
 
I've been extremely lucky with some wild sightings, and I've been a hardcore zoo connoisseur my whole life.
I think you've made an error - IIRC there are no titan beetles in captivity anywhere. They're so elusive we don't even know how they breed.
 
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Ha looking at other posts apparently I need to visit more zoos. Most insects I don't even know , I never ever look at the insect houses or if I have to go through them I look at usually the insects that don't trigger arachnophobia. One of my local zoos actually has koalas but I always forget to see them - pandas and armadillos eat up so much of my time.
 
I've seen many of these species in zoos, but I think the animals people have seen in the wild are more interesting. I've seen (you can tell I'm in the US!):

1. Grizzly (British Columbia)
2. Timber wolf (Montana)
3. Red fox (Washington)
4. American bison (Montana)
5. Pronghorn (Montana)
6. California sea lion (all along the West Coast)
7. Green iguana (Mexico)
8. Beaver (Oregon)
9. Raccoon (many states)
10. Striped Skunk (all over, including my backyard...)
11. Western diamondback rattlesnake (California)
 
Saw a red fox today in the field behind my garden and realised I hadn't updated this since the Twilight Pack has come out. Seen striped skunks at a few zoos (and held an albino one at one of my local zoos), on my work experience at the same zoo I handled the skunk I discovered the Egyptian fruit bats were breeding (which precipitated their departure from the zoo) and I have seen both common raccoon and red fox in the wild - the former in Costa Rica and the latter here in the UK; for the past couple of years we have had a vixen bringing her cubs into my garden over the course of several weeks. Only one I have never seen is the common wombat.

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Ha looking at other posts apparently I need to visit more zoos. Most insects I don't even know , I never ever look at the insect houses or if I have to go through them I look at usually the insects that don't trigger arachnophobia. One of my local zoos actually has koalas but I always forget to see them - pandas and armadillos eat up so much of my time.
Out of curiosity, what have you seen that's similar to a clouded leopard?
 
Here goes my list! Just a few clarifications:
1- I've seen leopards, lions, tigers, dholes, brown bears and asian black bears, only that in another subspecies or zoomix individuals. I decided to put them in not seen and acknowledge subspecies.
2- Since the game doesn't specify any subspecies for the timber wolf (I've only seen Iberian and zoomix wolves) and Colombian white-faced capuchin (only seen zoomix white-faced capuchins), I decided to add them to the seen category.

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For me ingame species I've seen in the wild:
  • Fallow Deer
  • Gray wolf
  • Ibex (but Nubian not Alpine)
  • Red fox
  • Water buffalo (not wild)
  • Raccoon
  • California sea lion
  • Prairie dog
  • Fire Salamander
  • Scarab beetles
  • egyptuian fruit bat


But next week I'm in the Amazon river so I expect the list to maybe grow.
 
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