30 essential animals meta-wishlist

Villa11 · Feb 17, 2021

It was really hard to limit myself to just 30 animals, I kept thinking of animals that I want in this game and having to delete others from my list. :'(
In some cases i didn't mention a specific species as I don't mind using a species that looks similar (I keep using the Nyala as a sitatunga in my zoos lol )
So here is mine, in no particular order:

1)Meerkat
2)White rhino
3)Shoebill stork
4)Secretary Bird
5)Asian small clawed otter
6)Californian sealion
7)A gibbon (any species)
8)Maned wolf
9)Capybara
10)Walrus
11)Moose
12)Aardwolf
13)Fossa
14)Binturong
15)Fennec fox
16) Old world Porcupine (any species)
17)Cougar
18)Muntjac (any species)
19)Blackbuck
20)Howler monkey (any species)
21)A small penguin (any species)
22)Squirrel monkey (any species)
23)Addax
24)Golden or golden-headed Lion tamarin
25)Grévy Zebra
26)Langur (any species)
27)Colobus monkey (any species)
28)Nilgai
29)Golden takin
30)Wild donkey (any species)

leehonglocal · Feb 20, 2021

Could/Would Frontier that design and create Planet Zoo accept any 'requests' and ideas from us and this forum? Otherwise, what's the point?
For me, here's what I hope this game will have.

Middle Eastern desert:

Dromedary Camel (domesticated)
Scimitar Oryx (extinct in the wild)
optionals: Striped hyena and African spurred tortoise

North America:

Cougar/puma/mountain lion (especially Rocky Mountains subspecies)
Moose
Lynx
Musk Ox (Were there musk ox in zoos?)

Africa:

African leopard (to complete the Big Five)
Either black or white rhinoceros (to complete the Big Five)
Meerkat
Any baboon species
optionals: Nile crocodile and another giraffe species

Asia/Eurasia:

Malayan tapir
Ibex (especially alpine)
Lar gibbon or any gibbon species
If giant salamanders will be accepted, exhibit or habitat?
optionals: Wild boar, markhor and clouded leopard

Aquatic 2:

Another penguin species
California Sea Lion
American alligator
optional: West Indian manatee (maybe one small land in its enclosure for zookeepers to go in)

Exhibit ones:

Mantises
Stag and Rhino beetles
Small rodents like mice and hamsters
Small fish like piranhas and clown fish
Aviaries for small flying birds and bats (Prehistoric Kingdom game had that idea)

Possible changes, fixes and updates:

Japanese macaques like getting wet and taking baths like in real-life.

Any questions?

RedPandaReggie · Feb 20, 2021

There are Musk oxen in zoos

random goat · Feb 21, 2021

leehonglocal said:
Could/Would Frontier that design and create Planet Zoo accept any 'requests' and ideas from us and this forum? Otherwise, what's the point?

I believe I have explained this a couple of times already, and you asked the same thing before. In the worst case, this list is helpful for us, forum users, to know what are the popular animals in the PZ forum community. In the best case, Frontier might use this as a reference (as well as many others) to create the most demanded animals.
You can argue that this is as pointless as any of the other hundreds of wishlists posted in this forum. But at least here there's an attempt to collect and merge a good proportion of them, making the final wishlist more meaningful.

leehonglocal said:
Any questions?

Yes. Have you read the OP? I seriously doubt anyone can come up with a list format as ambiguous and different from the format I suggested. It's not that hard to follow a simple 30 items list, it makes everything much easier. Anyway, are you happy with this updated version of your "list"?:

Dromedary Camel

Scimitar Oryx

Striped hyena

African spurred tortoise

Cougar

Moose

Lynx

Musk Ox

African Leopard

White Rhino

Meerkat

Hamadryas Baboon

Nile Crocodile

Masai Giraffe

Malayan Tapir

Alpine Ibex

Lar Gibbon

Chinese Giant Salamander

Wild Boar

Markhor

Clouded Leopard

Cape Penguin

California Sea Lion

American Alligator

West Indian Manatee

Mantis

Rhino Beetle

Mouse

Piranhas

Birds (?)

Thanks

NL_Mutso · Feb 21, 2021

random goat said:
I believe I have explained this a couple of times already, and you asked the same thing before. In the worst case, this list is helpful for us, forum users, to know what are the popular animals in the PZ forum community. In the best case, Frontier might use this as a reference (as well as many others) to create the most demanded animals.
You can argue that this is as pointless as any of the other hundreds of wishlists posted in this forum. But at least here there's an attempt to collect and merge a good proportion of them, making the final wishlist more meaningful.

I like it, because it's a great reference for this forum. We've had some claims that some animals were popular and they are sitting near the bottom atm and some interesting ones as well with the popularity of the leopards (African / Amur).

To me, it was the Malayan Tapir. I knew it was a popular "clone" but if you limit it to 30 - still very popular. Very surprised about that one.

jcp011c · Feb 21, 2021

NL_Mutso said:
I like it, because it's a great reference for this forum. We've had some claims that some animals were popular and they are sitting near the bottom atm and some interesting ones as well with the popularity of the leopards (African / Amur).

To me, it was the Malayan Tapir. I knew it was a popular "clone" but if you limit it to 30 - still very popular. Very surprised about that one.

I like it too. It also gives a great idea of what overall the community here wants. (those who participate anyways). We could all probably come up with 2-3 times the amount of animals as a want, even with still restricting no flying birds or fully marine animals. Yet, just because we want it, doesn't mean that a lot of other people want it as well. And while that doesn't mean Frontier won't make the lesser popular animals I'd think they would likely like some focus of what players want.

Also by nature of these lists, even without specifying as much, most people likely frontload their lists with their very most wanted animals - unless it's alphabetical of course. After you get past the top 10 or so most people likely just have a general idea of order, but I'd be willing to bet almost everyone's first animal on their list is also their most wanted. That's just human nature to do lists like that. Again, unless you're organizing them in some specific way like alphabetically or by perhaps region of the world. That also, gives Frontier some way of looking at what's most wanted.

I'd actually wondered if we should do just a top 10 list, and compile straight from that. It could even be that last is by order of what you want most and some kind of point system assigned - 10 points for every "1", 1 point for every "10" and so forth.

DarthQuell · Feb 21, 2021

random goat said:
PS: Check darthquell's thread for Essential exhibit animals

Just noticed this. Like 5 seconds ago

. I don't even keep up with my own references/links

nutrit · Feb 21, 2021

This list is the best thing on this forum ever!
It has shown me more then twice that most people wants are unpredictable in so many ways. Like I would never suspect that Fennec, lynx or ibex would be so high on the list.
I hope our choices would inspire Frontier in some way

DarthQuell · Feb 21, 2021

nutrit said:
This list is the best thing on this forum ever!
It has shown me more then twice that most people wants are unpredictable in so many ways. Like I would never suspect that Fennec, lynx or ibex would be so high on the list.
I hope our choices would inspire Frontier in some way

I hope so, too. What i noticed in the DLC is that Frontier has 3 mega-popular species habitat species and 1 forgotten/inconspicuous species. Examples:

Arctic: Dall Sheep
South America: Llama
Australia: Southern Cassowary
Aquatic: Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman

So, whatever the next DLC is, be sure to see at least 1 odd species and 3 popular species

nutrit · Feb 22, 2021

darthquell said:
I hope so, too. What i noticed in the DLC is that Frontier has 3 mega-popular species habitat species and 1 forgotten/inconspicuous species. Examples:

Arctic: Dall Sheep
South America: Llama
Australia: Southern Cassowary
Aquatic: Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman

So, whatever the next DLC is, be sure to see at least 1 odd species and 3 popular species

And I’m really happy for that coz even if we would probably get most of the species from the top of the list there is also a good chance for some species from the bottom too. Animals with much less votes and not so popular like:

Somali wild donkey
Dhole
Tree kangaroo
Lion tailed macaque

arafan · Feb 22, 2021

So let me contribute to reach the 100.

1. White rhinoceros
2. Meerkat
3. Sun bear
4. Binturong
5. Red-shanked douc
6. Gaur
7. Crested macaque
8. Coquerel's Sifaka
9. Gibbon (any species)
10. Takin (any species)
11. Anoa
12. Bankiva chicken
13. Babirusa
14. Père David deer
15. Yak
16. Musk ox
17. Californian sea lion
18. Arctic fox
19. African penguin
20. Puma
21. Capybara
22. Peccary (any species)
23. Red river hog
24. Colobus monkey
25. Curassow
26. Spider monkey (any species)
27. Yellow-footed rock wallaby
28. Goldfellow's tree Kangaroo
29. Common wombat
30. Tasmanian devil

random goat · Feb 22, 2021

Villa11 said:
It was really hard to limit myself to just 30 animals, I kept thinking of animals that I want in this game and having to delete others from my list. :'(
In some cases i didn't mention a specific species as I don't mind using a species that looks similar (I keep using the Nyala as a sitatunga in my zoos lol )
So here is mine, in no particular order:

1)Meerkat
2)White rhino
3)Shoebill stork
4)Secretary Bird
5)Asian small clawed otter
6)Californian sealion
7)A gibbon (any species)
8)Maned wolf
9)Capybara
10)Walrus
11)Moose
12)Aardwolf
13)Fossa
14)Binturong
15)Fennec fox
16) Old world Porcupine (any species)
17)Cougar
18)Muntjac (any species)
19)Blackbuck
20)Howler monkey (any species)
21)A small penguin (any species)
22)Squirrel monkey (any species)
23)Addax
24)Golden or golden-headed Lion tamarin
25)Grévy Zebra
26)Langur (any species)
27)Colobus monkey (any species)
28)Nilgai
29)Golden takin
30)Wild donkey (any species)

leehonglocal said:
Could/Would Frontier that design and create Planet Zoo accept any 'requests' and ideas from us and this forum? Otherwise, what's the point?
For me, here's what I hope this game will have.

Middle Eastern desert:

Dromedary Camel (domesticated)

Scimitar Oryx (extinct in the wild)

optionals: Striped hyena and African spurred tortoise

North America:

Cougar/puma/mountain lion (especially Rocky Mountains subspecies)

Moose

Lynx

Musk Ox (Were there musk ox in zoos?)

Africa:

African leopard (to complete the Big Five)

Either black or white rhinoceros (to complete the Big Five)

Meerkat

Any baboon species

optionals: Nile crocodile and another giraffe species

Asia/Eurasia:

Malayan tapir

Ibex (especially alpine)

Lar gibbon or any gibbon species

If giant salamanders will be accepted, exhibit or habitat?

optionals: Wild boar, markhor and clouded leopard

Aquatic 2:

Another penguin species

California Sea Lion

American alligator

optional: West Indian manatee (maybe one small land in its enclosure for zookeepers to go in)

Exhibit ones:

Mantises

Stag and Rhino beetles

Small rodents like mice and hamsters

Small fish like piranhas and clown fish

Aviaries for small flying birds and bats (Prehistoric Kingdom game had that idea)

Possible changes, fixes and updates:

Japanese macaques like getting wet and taking baths like in real-life.

Any questions?

arafan said:
So let me contribute to reach the 100.

1. White rhinoceros
2. Meerkat
3. Sun bear
4. Binturong
5. Red-shanked douc
6. Gaur
7. Crested macaque
8. Coquerel's Sifaka
9. Gibbon (any species)
10. Takin (any species)
11. Anoa
12. Bankiva chicken
13. Babirusa
14. Père David deer
15. Yak
16. Musk ox
17. Californian sea lion
18. Arctic fox
19. African penguin
20. Puma
21. Capybara
22. Peccary (any species)
23. Red river hog
24. Colobus monkey
25. Curassow
26. Spider monkey (any species)
27. Yellow-footed rock wallaby
28. Goldfellow's tree Kangaroo
29. Common wombat
30. Tasmanian devil

All added. List updated!

Dun dun dun11 · Feb 22, 2021

My 30 suggestions are as followed...

North America:
1. Moose
2. Cougar
3. American Alligator
4. Wolverine
5. California Sea Lion

Europe:
6. Alpine Ibex
7. Eurasian Lynx
8. Red Deer
9. Wild Boar

Africa:
10. Rhinoceros (either Black or White)
11. African Leopard
12. Olive Baboon
13. Meerkat
14. Cape Porcupine

Asia:
15. Clouded Leopard
16. Blackbuck
17. Przewalski's Horse
18. Dhole
19. Lion-Tailed Macaque
20. Gibbon (any species)
21. Malayan Tapir
22. Amur Leopard

South America:
23. Capybara
24. Maned Wolf
25. Giant Armadillo
26. Collared Peccary

Australia:
27. Common Wombat
28. Red-Necked Wallaby

Other:
29. Walrus
30. Fossa

Spiderhawk · Feb 22, 2021

Was starting to wonder if all users have contributed yet or not. Always good to see more contributions.
Btw I started an essential aviary animals thread to cover all animals that would require and overhead aviary

leehonglocal · Feb 24, 2021

random goat said:
I believe I have explained this a couple of times already, and you asked the same thing before. In the worst case, this list is helpful for us, forum users, to know what are the popular animals in the PZ forum community. In the best case, Frontier might use this as a reference (as well as many others) to create the most demanded animals.
You can argue that this is as pointless as any of the other hundreds of wishlists posted in this forum. But at least here there's an attempt to collect and merge a good proportion of them, making the final wishlist more meaningful.

Yes. Have you read the OP? I seriously doubt anyone can come up with a list format as ambiguous and different from the format I suggested. It's not that hard to follow a simple 30 items list, it makes everything much easier. Anyway, are you happy with this updated version of your "list"?:

Thanks

If I say 'That'll do'? I just couldn't help worrying since the virus that caused many deaths expanded the DLC completion time.
And as long as there'll no UNKEEPABLE ones like Javan rhinos, mountain gorillas and indris. Those species cannot/couldn't last or breed in captivity in real-life. Did I said that right? And great white sharks couldn't last being captive.

Otter Lord · Feb 24, 2021

Thanks for starting and managing this! Great to collectively combine 100 individual animal wishlist threads. Can we do one for plants?

Reptilia:
1. Giant Girdled Lizard - would work in PZ - a grasslands lizard that lives in groups, another squamata that is not an exhibit animal or a monitor
2. Indian Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle - giant, mostly-aquatic freshwater turtle found in some zoos

Aves:
3. Red-crowned Crane - iconic crane species, didn't have space to add secretary bird, or a stork

Carnivora:
4. Sun Bear - needs tropical bear
5. Clouded Leopard - unique felid, picked over Amur leopard
6. Dhole - Asian canine, picked over maned wolf, which would bring a South American canine
7. Binturong - the most popular ververid
8. Any Asian/African River Otter - Spot-necked preferred, purely personal
9. Southern Sea Otter - also personal, but I'd say it has a greater case since we have an aquatic one
10. Leopard Seal - would be nice to get another Antarctic animal that is not a penguin.

Artiodactyla:
11. Saiga - Asian plains bovid
12. Southern pudu - checks a lot of boxes, South American animal, deer, lives in a unique ecoregion
13. Muntjac (any kind) - probably personal preference, but it would be nice to mix with other Asian animals (peafowl, red panda)
14. Barasingha - 3rd deer recommendation, would be 4th. Good for mixed species with peafowl, rhino, and elephant. Red Deer or Pere David's are good alternates.
15. Sichuan Takin - unique mountain bovid, companion for the panda species
16. Markhor - need to have more mountain species
17. Babirusa - Asian pig, warthog is only pig species
18. Chacoan peccary - another peccary to round out pig species, preferred over other peccary due to conservation status, unique ecoregion, and physical features.

Perissodactyla:
19. Przewalksi's Wild Horse - most popular non-zebra equid.
20. Black Rhinoceros - need an African rhino, each of the past Zoo Tycoon's leaned black rhino over white. I agree and would that these are more solitary and would need their own enclosure, and its not like we need more African mixed species animals.
21. Malayan Tapir - it has twice the number of colors of other tapirs, should have been in over Baird's.

Rodentia:
22. Capybara - largest rodent + another South American animals
23. Patagonian mara - another South American rodent from the grassland ecosystem, would be nice with Guanaco, but it did not make the cut. Could be mixed with anteater though.

Monotreme/Marsupials:
24. Platypus - this one speaks for itself
25. Short-beaked echidna - lets round out egg-laying mammals
26. Common Wombat - non macropod marsupial, personally prefer over Tasmanian devil
27. Matchie's tree kangaroo - an arboreal macropod, also from Papua New Guinea

Primata:
28. White-handed Gibbon - need a gibbon species, picked over Crested due to larger range over SE-Asia
29. Francois Langur - a leaf-eating Asian monkey species
30. Black Howler Monkey - another new world monkey

nutrit · Feb 24, 2021

Otter Lord said:
Thanks for starting and managing this! Great to collectively combine 100 individual animal wishlist threads. Can we do one for plants?

Reptilia:
1. Giant Girdled Lizard - would work in PZ - a grasslands lizard that lives in groups, another squamata that is not an exhibit animal or a monitor
2. Indian Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle - giant, mostly-aquatic freshwater turtle found in some zoos

Aves:
3. Red-crowned Crane - iconic crane species, didn't have space to add secretary bird, or a stork

Carnivora:
4. Sun Bear - needs tropical bear
5. Clouded Leopard - unique felid, picked over Amur leopard
6. Dhole - Asian canine, picked over maned wolf, which would bring a South American canine
7. Binturong - the most popular ververid
8. Any Asian/African River Otter - Spot-necked preferred, purely personal
9. Southern Sea Otter - also personal, but I'd say it has a greater case since we have an aquatic one
10. Leopard Seal - would be nice to get another Antarctic animal that is not a penguin.

Artiodactyla:
11. Saiga - Asian plains bovid
12. Southern pudu - checks a lot of boxes, South American animal, deer, lives in a unique ecoregion
13. Muntjac (any kind) - probably personal preference, but it would be nice to mix with other Asian animals (peafowl, red panda)
14. Barasingha - 3rd deer recommendation, would be 4th. Good for mixed species with peafowl, rhino, and elephant. Red Deer or Pere David's are good alternates.
15. Sichuan Takin - unique mountain bovid, companion for the panda species
16. Markhor - need to have more mountain species
17. Babirusa - Asian pig, warthog is only pig species
18. Chacoan peccary - another peccary to round out pig species, preferred over other peccary due to conservation status, unique ecoregion, and physical features.

Perissodactyla:
19. Przewalksi's Wild Horse - most popular non-zebra equid.
20. Black Rhinoceros - need an African rhino, each of the past Zoo Tycoon's leaned black rhino over white. I agree and would that these are more solitary and would need their own enclosure, and its not like we need more African mixed species animals.
21. Malayan Tapir - it has twice the number of colors of other tapirs, should have been in over Baird's.

Rodentia:
22. Capybara - largest rodent + another South American animals
23. Patagonian mara - another South American rodent from the grassland ecosystem, would be nice with Guanaco, but it did not make the cut. Could be mixed with anteater though.

Monotreme/Marsupials:
24. Platypus - this one speaks for itself
25. Short-beaked echidna - lets round out egg-laying mammals
26. Common Wombat - non macropod marsupial, personally prefer over Tasmanian devil
27. Matchie's tree kangaroo - an arboreal macropod, also from Papua New Guinea

Primata:
28. White-handed Gibbon - need a gibbon species, picked over Crested due to larger range over SE-Asia
29. Francois Langur - a leaf-eating Asian monkey species
30. Black Howler Monkey - another new world monkey

Great and very well thought list. At first as the only one here I also choose Chacoan species but than I changed it. Since only leopard subspecies sum up on that list I decided to give my vote to collared Peccary which is much much higher on the list.

Same thing with a Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo it has 11 votes and Matchie’s just 1

I think you are the first person who choose Francois Langur - it’s such a magnificent species

San Diego is your best zoo?

Otter Lord · Feb 25, 2021

nutrit said:
San Diego is your best zoo?

I'm from San Diego but I wouldn't say it's the best. If an animal can be kept in zoos, they've definitely had it during their history. Best is the Bronx, but Woodland Park is another favorite for the exhibits, which is why I tried to pick out animals that would make mixed species exhibits or more rounded regions in PZ.

leehonglocal · Feb 25, 2021

Otter Lord said:
Thanks for starting and managing this! Great to collectively combine 100 individual animal wishlist threads. Can we do one for plants?

Reptilia:
1. Giant Girdled Lizard - would work in PZ - a grasslands lizard that lives in groups, another squamata that is not an exhibit animal or a monitor
2. Indian Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle - giant, mostly-aquatic freshwater turtle found in some zoos

Aves:
3. Red-crowned Crane - iconic crane species, didn't have space to add secretary bird, or a stork

Carnivora:
4. Sun Bear - needs tropical bear
5. Clouded Leopard - unique felid, picked over Amur leopard
6. Dhole - Asian canine, picked over maned wolf, which would bring a South American canine
7. Binturong - the most popular ververid
8. Any Asian/African River Otter - Spot-necked preferred, purely personal
9. Southern Sea Otter - also personal, but I'd say it has a greater case since we have an aquatic one
10. Leopard Seal - would be nice to get another Antarctic animal that is not a penguin.

Artiodactyla:
11. Saiga - Asian plains bovid
12. Southern pudu - checks a lot of boxes, South American animal, deer, lives in a unique ecoregion
13. Muntjac (any kind) - probably personal preference, but it would be nice to mix with other Asian animals (peafowl, red panda)
14. Barasingha - 3rd deer recommendation, would be 4th. Good for mixed species with peafowl, rhino, and elephant. Red Deer or Pere David's are good alternates.
15. Sichuan Takin - unique mountain bovid, companion for the panda species
16. Markhor - need to have more mountain species
17. Babirusa - Asian pig, warthog is only pig species
18. Chacoan peccary - another peccary to round out pig species, preferred over other peccary due to conservation status, unique ecoregion, and physical features.

Perissodactyla:
19. Przewalksi's Wild Horse - most popular non-zebra equid.
20. Black Rhinoceros - need an African rhino, each of the past Zoo Tycoon's leaned black rhino over white. I agree and would that these are more solitary and would need their own enclosure, and its not like we need more African mixed species animals.
21. Malayan Tapir - it has twice the number of colors of other tapirs, should have been in over Baird's.

Rodentia:
22. Capybara - largest rodent + another South American animals
23. Patagonian mara - another South American rodent from the grassland ecosystem, would be nice with Guanaco, but it did not make the cut. Could be mixed with anteater though.

Monotreme/Marsupials:
24. Platypus - this one speaks for itself
25. Short-beaked echidna - lets round out egg-laying mammals
26. Common Wombat - non macropod marsupial, personally prefer over Tasmanian devil
27. Matchie's tree kangaroo - an arboreal macropod, also from Papua New Guinea

Primata:
28. White-handed Gibbon - need a gibbon species, picked over Crested due to larger range over SE-Asia
29. Francois Langur - a leaf-eating Asian monkey species
30. Black Howler Monkey - another new world monkey

Were there leopard seals in captivities? Could they last and/breed in captivities?

random goat · Feb 25, 2021

Dun dun dun11 said:
My 30 suggestions are as followed...

North America:
1. Moose
2. Cougar
3. American Alligator
4. Wolverine
5. California Sea Lion

Europe:
6. Alpine Ibex
7. Eurasian Lynx
8. Red Deer
9. Wild Boar

Africa:
10. Rhinoceros (either Black or White)
11. African Leopard
12. Olive Baboon
13. Meerkat
14. Cape Porcupine

Asia:
15. Clouded Leopard
16. Blackbuck
17. Przewalski's Horse
18. Dhole
19. Lion-Tailed Macaque
20. Gibbon (any species)
21. Malayan Tapir
22. Amur Leopard

South America:
23. Capybara
24. Maned Wolf
25. Giant Armadillo
26. Collared Peccary

Australia:
27. Common Wombat
28. Red-Necked Wallaby

Other:
29. Walrus
30. Fossa

Otter Lord said:
Thanks for starting and managing this! Great to collectively combine 100 individual animal wishlist threads. Can we do one for plants?

Reptilia:
1. Giant Girdled Lizard - would work in PZ - a grasslands lizard that lives in groups, another squamata that is not an exhibit animal or a monitor
2. Indian Narrow-headed Softshell Turtle - giant, mostly-aquatic freshwater turtle found in some zoos

Aves:
3. Red-crowned Crane - iconic crane species, didn't have space to add secretary bird, or a stork

Carnivora:
4. Sun Bear - needs tropical bear
5. Clouded Leopard - unique felid, picked over Amur leopard
6. Dhole - Asian canine, picked over maned wolf, which would bring a South American canine
7. Binturong - the most popular ververid
8. Any Asian/African River Otter - Spot-necked preferred, purely personal
9. Southern Sea Otter - also personal, but I'd say it has a greater case since we have an aquatic one
10. Leopard Seal - would be nice to get another Antarctic animal that is not a penguin.

Artiodactyla:
11. Saiga - Asian plains bovid
12. Southern pudu - checks a lot of boxes, South American animal, deer, lives in a unique ecoregion
13. Muntjac (any kind) - probably personal preference, but it would be nice to mix with other Asian animals (peafowl, red panda)
14. Barasingha - 3rd deer recommendation, would be 4th. Good for mixed species with peafowl, rhino, and elephant. Red Deer or Pere David's are good alternates.
15. Sichuan Takin - unique mountain bovid, companion for the panda species
16. Markhor - need to have more mountain species
17. Babirusa - Asian pig, warthog is only pig species
18. Chacoan peccary - another peccary to round out pig species, preferred over other peccary due to conservation status, unique ecoregion, and physical features.

Perissodactyla:
19. Przewalksi's Wild Horse - most popular non-zebra equid.
20. Black Rhinoceros - need an African rhino, each of the past Zoo Tycoon's leaned black rhino over white. I agree and would that these are more solitary and would need their own enclosure, and its not like we need more African mixed species animals.
21. Malayan Tapir - it has twice the number of colors of other tapirs, should have been in over Baird's.

Rodentia:
22. Capybara - largest rodent + another South American animals
23. Patagonian mara - another South American rodent from the grassland ecosystem, would be nice with Guanaco, but it did not make the cut. Could be mixed with anteater though.

Monotreme/Marsupials:
24. Platypus - this one speaks for itself
25. Short-beaked echidna - lets round out egg-laying mammals
26. Common Wombat - non macropod marsupial, personally prefer over Tasmanian devil
27. Matchie's tree kangaroo - an arboreal macropod, also from Papua New Guinea

Primata:
28. White-handed Gibbon - need a gibbon species, picked over Crested due to larger range over SE-Asia
29. Francois Langur - a leaf-eating Asian monkey species
30. Black Howler Monkey - another new world monkey

Both added!