2023 Essential habitat animals META-WISHLIST:

The 2023 list is updated. I kind of like comparing the counting systems. This was fun and interesting. I've been learning a lot about different types of animals from the lovely people of this forum, but I'm no expert in wildlife. If anyone sees a glaring issue, please let me know.

A few of reminders:
  1. There are no substitutions (no re-voting), but I will renew the list around the next anniversary if the developers continue support. You can change up your votes then.
  2. No exhibit animals or aviary birds, please.
  3. If you haven't done so, please submit your top 25 essential habitat animals to random goat's list. It has many more participants, and your choices should be counted there as well.
A few notes:
  1. I skipped animals with fewer than one vote in the hybrid list to keep things somewhat controlled.
  2. The hybrid list takes 25% of the priority to favorites list points (uses all 50) and all of the count list points (uses top 25) to give each list equal weight.
  3. Thank you to all participants! I will count the votes again next month.
Not the biggest deal but did you miss my southern screamer? It's perfectly capable of being a habitat bird like most waterfowl.
 
Not the biggest deal but did you miss my southern screamer? It's perfectly capable of being a habitat bird like most waterfowl.
I checked the master list, and I realized that I duplicated the previous voters list by accident under your name. It will be corrected by next month along with any other errors (hopefully it's the only one!). Sorry about that! I wrote a program to sift through some stuff automatically, but I had to copy paste the lists into a text editor to make a few formatting changes.

Edit to say: I checked everyone else's, and that's the only time that happened.

Edit 2: I think I've fixed it. Thank you for spotting that, and please let me know if you see anything else. I figured there might be a few issues with the first run. Next month should be smoother.
 
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Here's my list:

1. Short-beaked Echidna
2. Lace Monitor
3. Walrus
4. Elephant Seal
5. Red River Hog
6.Tasmanian Devil
7. Caracal
8. African Crested Porcupine
9. Emperor Tamarin
10. Wolverine
11. Perentie
12. European Wild Boar
13. Black Howler Monkey
14. Maned Wolf
15. South American Coati
16. Brushtail Possum
17. Spoonbill
18. Musk Ox
19. Emu
20. Spectacled Bear
21. Bighorn Sheep
22. Shetland's Pony
23. Dik-Dik
24. Alligator Snapping Turtle
25. Patagonian Mara
26. Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
27. North Island Brown Kiwi
28. Australian Sea Lion
29. Rockhopper Penguin
30. Fossa
 
It's quite ironic that a certain animal that is quite popular on the other list is the very last one here 🤡

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Here we go:

1. Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth
2. Rockhopper Penguin
3. Emu
4. Lar Gibbon
5. Hamadryas Baboon
6. Wolverine
7. African Crested Porcupine
8. Spectacled Bear
9. Musk Ox
10. Texas Longhorn
11. South American Coati
12. Coquerel's Sifaka
13. Wolverine
14. Spoonbill
15. Eastern Wild Turkey
 
This is my wish list:

1. Maned Wolf
2. South American Coati
3. Nandu
4. Guanaco
5. Patagonian Mara
6. Rockhopper Penguin
7. Bristles Armadillo
8. Maned Seal
9. black-necked swan
10. olive baboon
11. golden lion tamarin
12. Lar gibbon
13. Black Howler Monkey
14. Black-capped squirrel monkey
15. greater slow loris
16. crowned sifaka
17. Mantled Guereza
18. Tasmanian Devil
19. Emu
20. Southern two-toed sloth
21. Bennett's wallaby
22. dugong
23. North Island Brown Kiwi
24. Eastern quoll
25. African Crested Porcupine
 
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This is my wish list:

1. Maned Wolf (patagonia/pampas pack)
2. South American Coati (patagonia/pampas pack)
3. Nandu (patagonia/pampas pack)
4. Guanaco (patagonia/pampas pack)
5. Patagonian Mara (patagonia/pampas pack)
6. Rockhopper Penguin (patagonia/pampas pack)
7. Bristles Armadillo (patagonia/pampas pack)
8. Maned Seal (patagonia/pampas pack)
9. black-necked swan (patagonia/pampas pack)

10. olive baboon (primates pack)
11. golden lion tamarin (primates pack)
12. white-handed gibbon/Lar (primates pack)
13. Black Howler Monkey (primates pack)
14. Black-capped squirrel monkey (primates pack)
15. greater slow loris (primates pack)
16. crowned sifaka (primates pack)
17. Mantled Guereza (primates pack)

18. Tasmanian Devil (oceania pack)
19. Emu (oceania pack)
20. Southern two-toed sloth (oceania pack)
21. Bennett's wallaby (oceania pack)
22. dugong (oceania pack)
23. North Island Brown Kiwi (oceania pack)
24. Eastern quoll (oceania pack)

25. African Crested Porcupine
The species should be in the order that you want them (with your favorite as number 1), and while I like your pack ideas, the parentheses and their contents make processing the list more difficult. Please fix this. Thank you!
 
The species should be in the order that you want them (with your favorite as number 1), and while I like your pack ideas, the parentheses and their contents make processing the list more difficult. Please fix this. Thank you
I‘m sorry. That is my favourite animal list. I have deleted the pack names.
 
Il give you my top 25. Going beyond is a bit unnecessary. One of the reasons I stopped updating the aviary wishlist was that there’s too many people voting for the same animals therefore I had to change it averages.

  1. Manned wolf
  2. Nine banded armadillo
  3. Rhea
  4. Wisent
  5. Dune cat
  6. Blackbuck
  7. Coyote
  8. Golden jackal
  9. Tasmanian devil
  10. Collared peccary
  11. Barbary macaque
  12. Caracal
  13. Markhor
  14. Emu
  15. Coastal mountain goat
  16. Andean Bear
  17. European polecat
  18. Golden takin
  19. Gelada
  20. Lyrebird
  21. Tree kangaroo
  22. Coati
  23. Shoebill
  24. Roadrunner
  25. Red howler monkey
 
1. Virginia Opossum
2. Secretary Bird
3. Mouse Deer
4. Coati
5. Sable
6. Tanuki
7. Sand Cat
8. Yak
9. Kakapo

While I know currently, aquatic habitats aren't existent, I feel another conservation pack would be complete with:

10. Saola
11. Dugong
12. Swift Fox
13. Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon
14. Indri
15. Diademed Sifaka
16. Black Bearded Saki
17. Saiga Antelope
18. Giant Eland
19. Numbat
20. Tree Kangaroo
21. Grandidier's Mongoose
 
Thats mine wishlist
1. Walrus
2. Shoebill
3. African crested Porcupine
4. Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth
5. Atlantic puffin
6. Green sea turtle
7. Red river hog
8. Sea otter
9. Tree kangaroo*
10. Armadillo*
11. Emu
12. Coati*
13. Tamandua*
14. Musk ox
15. Kiwi
16. Tasmanian devil
17. Wallaby*
18. Dromedary
19. Wolverine
20. Scarlet ibis
 
I'm going to throw my own list up and start this month's edit. (It seemed better to wait with an announcement so close.)
  1. Golden Lion Tamarin
  2. American Black Bear
  3. Serval
  4. Red Shanked Douc
  5. Grey Crowned Crane
  6. African Crested Porcupine
  7. Margay
  8. Muntjac
  9. Mantled Colobus
  10. Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
  11. Pallas’s Cat
  12. Black Howler Monkey
  13. Dromedary Camel
  14. Hoffman’s Two-Toed Sloth
  15. Wolverine
  16. Red River Hog
  17. Black Backed Jackal
  18. Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey
  19. Ribbon Seal
  20. Grey Langur
  21. Squirrel Monkey
  22. Mandarin Duck
  23. Sea Otter
  24. Sand Cat
  25. Markhor
  26. Marsh Deer
  27. North Island Brown Kiwi
  28. Eastern Wild Turkey
  29. Tamandua
  30. Green Sea Turtle
  31. Southern Ground Hornbill
  32. Spectacled Bear
  33. Mute Swan
  34. Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
  35. Addax
  36. Scarlet Ibis
  37. South American Coati
  38. Musk Ox
  39. Somali Wild Donkey
  40. Blackbuck
  41. De Brazza’s Guenon
  42. Tanuki
  43. Collared Peccary
  44. Echidna
  45. Honey Badger
  46. Mountain Tapir
  47. Hamadryas Baboon
  48. Saiga
  49. Takin
  50. Southern Pudu
 
The 2023 list is updated. I kind of like comparing the counting systems. This was fun and interesting. I've been learning a lot about different types of animals from the lovely people of this forum, but I'm no expert in wildlife. If anyone sees a glaring issue, please let me know.

A few of reminders:
  1. There are no substitutions (no re-voting), but I will renew the list around the next anniversary if the developers continue support. You can change up your votes then.
  2. No exhibit animals or aviary birds, please.
  3. If you haven't done so, please submit your top 25 essential habitat animals to random goat's list. It has many more participants, and your choices should be counted there as well.
A few notes:
  1. I skipped animals with fewer than one vote in the hybrid list to keep things somewhat controlled.
  2. The hybrid list takes 25% of the priority to favorites list points (uses all 50) and all of the count list points (uses top 25) to give each list equal weight.
  3. Thank you to all participants! I will count the votes again next month.
List updated with November entries.
 
01. Virginia Opossum
02. Tasmanian Devil
03. Ocellated Turkey
04. Snowshoe Hare
05. Mute Swan
06. Greater Roadrunner
07. Marabou Stork
08. Nene
09. Atlantic Puffin
10. Mallard
11. Scarlet Ibis
12. Wild Boar
13. Greater Rhea
14. Secretarybird
15. Mandarin Duck
16. Great White Pelican
17. North Island Brown Kiwi
18. Shoebill
19. Walrus
20. Short-Beaked Echidna
21. Southern Ground Hornbill
22. Hamadryas Baboon
23. Roseate Spoonbill
24. Collared Peccary
25. Linnaeus's Two-Toed Sloth
26. Alligator Snapping Turtle
27. Helmeted Guineafowl
28. Yellow-Throated Marten
29. Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
30. Fossa
31. Crested Porcupine
32. Coquerel's Sifaka
33. Wolverine
34. Sea Otter
35. Honey Badger
36. Siberian Musk Deer
37. Aye-Aye
38. Golden Lion Tamarin
39. Black Howler
40. Cotton-Top Tamarin
41. Muskox
42. Ocelot
43. Pere David's Deer
44. Takin
45. Goodfellow's Tree-Kangaroo
46. Sloth Bear
47. Aardwolf
48. South American Coati
49. Reeve's Muntjac
50. Kirk's Dik-Dik
 
Okay, I managed to condense all my most wanted animals into a top 25 list. If all of these were added, I would consider the habitat animal roster pretty much perfect.
  1. Secretary Bird
  2. Tasmanian Devil
  3. North American Elk
  4. Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
  5. African Crested Porcupine
  6. Fossa
  7. Gerenuk
  8. Wolverine
  9. Bald Uakari
  10. White-Nosed Coati
  11. North Island Brown Kiwi
  12. Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
  13. Walrus
  14. Red River Hog
  15. Musk Ox
  16. Columbian Red Howler
  17. Southern Rockhopper Penguin
  18. Shoebill
  19. Hamadryas Baboon
  20. Klipspringer
  21. Sea Otter
  22. Dromedary Camel
  23. Mantled Guereza
  24. Takin
  25. Spectacled Bear
 
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  1. Cotton-top tamarin
  2. Crested porcupine
  3. Common marmoset
  4. Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
  5. Brazilian tapir
  6. African spurred tortoise
  7. American black bear
  8. Common squirrel monkey
  9. Raccoon dog
  10. Ring-tailed coati
  11. Tufted capuchin
  12. White egret
  13. Six-banded armadillo
  14. Barbary macaque
  15. American white ibis
  16. Scottish wildcat
  17. Sumatran tiger
  18. Bobcat
  19. Serval
  20. Gelada
  21. West African pygmy goat
  22. Spoonbill
  23. Scarlet ibis
  24. Hamadryas baboon
  25. American flamingo
  26. Crested partridge
  27. East African grey crowed crane
  28. Helmeted guineafowl
  29. Sandhill crane
  30. Golden pheasant
  31. Fulvous whistling duck
  32. Greater rhea
  33. Colombian black spider monkey
  34. North American river otter
  35. Patagonian mara
  36. Common palm civet
  37. Argentine black and white tegu
  38. Edwards's pheasant
  39. Temminck's tragopan
  40. Northern helmeted curassow
  41. Eastern black rhinoceros
  42. Harbour seal
  43. Canada lynx
  44. Nile crocodile
  45. Western sitatunga
  46. Humboldt penguin
  47. Bush dog
  48. Woolly monkey
  49. Red river hog
  50. Alpaca
 
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