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A small question, would Frilled Lizard, Giant Salamander and Lyrebirds be able to have their own enclosure? They are big enough for it, but I don't know if people know that...
Also very sad to see more people vote for Red Fox than Grey fox :-(
No love for lyrebird?
I try to follow Frontier's logic if possible. Although in real zoos things work differently, I think giant salamanders could potentially be habitat animals due to their size (even bigger than dwarf caiman, for instance). Frilled lizards are not bigger than the iguanas we have right now so I'd put them in the 'Exhibit' category. As for the lyrebird, it's a tough one. We don't have this kind of birds in-game. Even though they're members of the Passeriformes order (one of the examples of birds I said I wouldn't include) and they're normally found in aviaries, I believe we can make an exception for this one and consider it a potential free-roaming habitat bird due to their size and behaviour.

Also, don't worry about your list. It looks great and it'll obviously be included. Working on it now.
 
Here is my top 30 :

1- Greater Kudu
2- Blackbuck
3- Moose
4- White Rhino
5- Common Wildebeest
6- African Leopard
7- Fennec Fox
8- Striped Hyena
9- Arabian Oryx
10- Addax
11- Caracal
12- Markhor
13- Red Deer
14- Red Fox
15- Impala
16- Olive Baboon
17- Tree Kangaroo
18- Meerkat
19- Red River Hog
20- Bighorn Sheep
21- Roosevelt Elk
22- Fallow Deer
23- Axis Deer
24- Alligator Snapping Turtle
25- Arctic Fox
26- Musk Ox
27- Giant Eland
28- Raccoon
29- Scimitar-Horned Oryx
30- American Black Bear
My wish list for the game.
1. Meerkats
2. Gibbons ( Lar Gibbon, Siamang , Golden cheeked.)
3. Capybara
4. Porcupine or tree porcupine
5. Marmoset monkey or Tamarin Monkey
6.Sloth
7. Victoria crowned pigeon
8. Macaws
9. Cockatoo
10. Rainbow lorikeets
11. Hornbills
12. Golden Pheasant
13. Humboldt Penguins
14. Colobus Monkey
15. Mara
16. Eurasian otter or sea otter
17. Sealion
18. Aquarium fish.

I would love to see an Aviary pack with smaller bird species and maybe an aquarium pack as a lot of zoos have this type of exhibits.

Here's my list and of course, I'd also like to see packs dedicated to aviaries with flighted birds and small aquarium building options!

1. Moose
2. North American Beaver
3. Przewalski's Horse
4. Mountain Lion
5. Wild Turkey (Eastern Subspecies)
6. American Alligator
7. Kiwi
8. Alpine Ibex
9. Cape Penguin
10. Maned Wolf
11. Mountain Goat
12. Markhor
13. Fennec Fox
14. Banteng
15. Roosevelt Elk
16. Red Deer
17. Leopard Seal
18. Arctic Fox
19. Ocellated Turkey
20. Japanese Giant Salamander
21. Striped Hyena
22. Eurasian Lynx
23. Ocelot
24. Shoebill
25. Fallow Deer
26. Bighorn Sheep
27. Red Fox
28. North American Black Bear
29. Sambar Deer
30. Walrus

Well this was tough (and probably biased by my experiences with zoos that happen to not have great representation of North America, Europe, and Australia). South East Asia Pack really helped me out, as basically everything coming there would have taken up a space on this list...

Africa
1) White Rhino
2) Black Rhino
3) Crested Porcupine
4) Meerkat
5) Serval
6) Baboon (preferably hamadryas or gelada)
7) Red River Hog
8) Tropical African Monkey (no real preference, but black and white colobus/mangabey seems an obvious choice)
9) Greater Kudu
10) Crowned Crane
11) Aye Aye
12) Fossa

Asia
13) Leopard (preferably Amur)
14) Gibbon (no preference)
15) Mainland Asian Monkey (no real preference, grey langur/lion tailed macaque seems an obvious choice)
16) Przewalski's horse

Europe/North America
17) Lynx (no preference)
18) Wolverine
19) Moose
20) Cougar

South America
21) Capybara
22) Maned Wolf
23) Spider Monkey (no preference)
24) Sloth (preferably one of the two toes)
25) Spectacled Bear

Oceania
26) Wombat (no preference)
27) Emu
28) Tasmanian Devil

Misc
29) Small Penguin (African, Magellanic, or Humboldt)
30) Sealion (no preference)

And even then I've missed out a load of stuff I'd really like to see (like Asian small clawed otters, or various mongooses), and not even thought about aviaries or aquariums! Yikes...

I think this is a good place to copy my wishlist to, hopefully all these animals are already in those huge lists?

My wishlist is very powerful as all animals on it are very unique and not like animals already in the game at all! (which for you would be bad as you have to create them all from scratch lol)
I'm not a fan of duplicate animals, such as more zebra, lion, gorilla or giraffe variants, they aren't like Asian and African Rhinoceros, looking completly differently, only their colors are different and other minor differences.

Don't care for Leopards and Nile Crocodiles, sorry, so they only get a negative mention.

Now for my favorite 30 animals to be still included:

1: Markhor, make it happen, this game feels incomplete without it!
2: Maned Wolf, so many canines, while the most awesome one of them is still missing!
3: Saiga, the most bizarre of antelopes with its funny looking dust-mask nose.
4: Platypus, another bizarre animals this game can't be complete without.
5: Kiwi, really lovely ground birds!
6: Tasmanian Devil, a fan-favorite, and rightfully so!
7: Leopard Seal, I don't know if it would be realistic in a zoo, but this is by far the most awesome sea-mammal out there!
8: Capybara, worlds most friendly animal, the zoo feels dark without them!
9: Roadrunner Bird, no they won't fly away more than Flamingo's could, these symbols of speed are really awesome, and another bird is always good!
10: Frilled Lizard, is it big enough to be in a enclosure? I hope so, they are my favorite lizards!
11: Alligator Snapping Turtle, the only turtle I care about, nasty, big and mean.
12: Giant Salamander, the only amphibian big enough to be in a enclosure.
13: Lyrebird, the most beautiful of birds that can copy ANY sound, how awesome! The size of a peacock, so it can be in the zoo with ease.
14: Musk Deer, Deer Dragula, missed oppertunity with this latest asian pack, would have been better than the Dhole in my opinion.
15: Gelada, these mountain baboon-like creatures are awesome, I always put them with the Ibex and Markhor in my zoo tycoon enclosures.
16: Generuk,The most bizarre of the african missing antelopes, so I really want it!
17: Fossa, My username, the biggest predator of Madagaskar could not be absent!
18: Crested Porcupine, never been in a zoo-game before, WHY? these lion-killers are awesome!
19: Honey Badger, The strength of a wolf and the fearsomeness of a bear, aswesome critters!
20: Serval, The cat version of the Maned Wolf!
21: Shoebill, this game need more birds, well this is one of the very best and strange!
22: Secretary Bird, This is really one of my favorite birds after the Lyre and Cassowary! An eagle on stilts
23: Waterbuck, I just love the fact that they live in water and their flesh is very bad tasting so crocodiles won't often grab them.
24: Red River Hog, miss piggy, the vain and beautiful strange family member of the pigs.
25: African Ground Hornbill, cool birds!
26: Caracal. Another awesome smaller cat, and we need an Lynx/bobcat!
27: Ocelot, small but very beautiful!
28: Grey Fox, these beautiful foxes can climb in trees, how bizarre and awesome!
29: Sloth (ANY), preferable the biggest one, they are slow and dull, but still awesome!
30: Aardwolf, both awesome canines that are very different from other canines as they eat mostly insects.


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Others: (you can ignore these animals for this topic, but I still want to mention them!


Giant Armadillo, rather rare, but maybe too much like giant anteater and pangolin...

Tree Kangaroo's, North American Porcupine (tree version) and Small Tamandua Anteaters are also cute!

Other than these the obivious ones that I don't like as much but which I still want in zoo's: White Rhinoceros, Puma, Bighorn Sheep, Meerkat, Fennec Fox, Polar Fox, Fallow Deer, Emu, Nandu, Musk Ox, Wombat, Moose, Beaver, Walrus, Small Penguin, Elephant Seal and Desert Skunk.


Of Course there are some fish, insects and smaller reptiles as well, but they aren't my main priority to get into this awesome game.

FAVORITE FISH: Cookie Cutter Shark, Any Seahorse, Piranha, Electric Eel, Giant Stingray, Thresher Shark, Airapaima, Alligator Gar, Blue Marlin, Sawfish, Moray Eel, Mudskipper, and Goliath Tigerfish.

FAVORITE BUGS: Mantis (any), Water Bugs, Pond Skaters, Mantis Shrimp, Emerald Wasp, Assassin Bug. Ogre Spider, Trapdoor Spider, Bombardier Beetles, Antlion (but only the larvae), butterfly garden with all types of butterflies and moths.

FAVORITE CAGE BIRDS: Harpy Eagle, African Jacana, Quetzal, Hoopoe, Kookaburra, Kea, Victoria Crowned Pidgeon, Snowy Owl, Ground Owl, Hoatzin, King Vulture, Bearded Vulture, Hummingbird, Waterfall Duck, and Caracara, Pheasants (Lady Amherst, Golden and Blood), Pitohui (poison bird)

FAVORITE AMPHIBIANS: Axolotl, Caecilian, and Olm, and the Surinam Toad.

FAVORITE SMALL REPTILES: Moloch, Basilisk, Matamata, Vine Snake, Chameleons.

In aquariums I also like decorative animals such as starfish, urchins, anemones, coral and jellyfish. Don't forget about the awesome Crown Of Thorns starfish as well.

After you're done with these awesome animals, it's time to give the guest humans some re-skins and more models, they are a bit ugly compared to the animals.

1. Ocelot
2. Meerkat
3. Prairie dogs
4. Fennec Fox
5. Tasmanian Devil
6. Maned Wolf
7. Sloth (any).
8. Skunk
9. Badger
10. Asian Small-clawed Otter
11. Secretary Bird
12. Red Fox
13. Capybara
14. Raccoon
15. Rockhopper Penguin
16. Aardwolf
17. Sumatran Tiger
18. Fishing Cat
19. Pallas's cat
20. Shoebill
21. Asian Golden Cat
22. Alpaca
23. California Sea Lion
24. North American Beaver
25. Caracal
26. Serval
27. Kiwi
28. Zebra Duiker
29. Banteng
30. Porcupine

My wishlist:

1. Meerkats
2. California Sea Lion
3. Capybara
4. Beaver (any kind)
5. Bighorn Sheep
6. Sloth (any kind)
7. Tamarin monkey
8. Bats/Bat cave (any kind)
9. Deer (any kind)
10. Racoon
11. Fox (any kind)
12. Przewalskis Horse
13. Rockhopper Penguin
14. Baboons (Olive or Gelada)
15. Dik Dik
16. Porcupine
17. Spotted Hyena
18. Moose
19. Lynx
20. Alpine Ibex
21. Armadillo
22. Opposum
23. Tarsier
24. Aye Aye
25. Asian Short Clawed Otter
26. Rock Hyrax
27. Hedgehog (any kind) (Exhibit Animal)
28. Platypus
29. Naked Mole Rat (Exhibit Animal)
30. Gerenuk

Here’s my 30:

Moose
Elk
Beaver
Bobcat
Mountain lion
Porcupine
Platypus
Yak
Great horned owl
Pzewalski horse
Beluga
Stingray (touch pool)
Octopus
Bottle nose dolphin
Manatee
Walrus
Rockhopper penguin
Leatherback sea turtle
Puffin
Capybara
Sloth
Armadillo
Meerkat
Fennec fox
Jackson Chameleon
Axolotl
Fish (aquariums)
Parrots (interactive)
Bats (nocturnal caves)
Butterflies (interactive)

1. Red river hog
2. Pallas Cat
3. Wolverine
4. Moose
5. Markhor
6. Asian short clawed otter
7. European badger
8. Przewalski’s wild horse
9. Meerkat
10. Prairie dog
11. Red deer
12. Maned wolf
13. California sea lion
14. Sloth
15. Wallaby
16. Wombat
17. Siamang
18. Porcupine
19. Raccoon
20. Rockhopper penguin
21. Armadillo
22. Donkey
23. Capybara
24. Howler monkey
25. Serval
26. Tasmanian devil
27. Mountain lion
28. Beaver
29. Fennec fox
30. Caracal
All added! Thanks for your submissions.

THE MEERKAT COMEBACK!

Also, after 115 participants finally the impala and blue wildebeest show up in the list xD
 
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1. Gibbon
2. Beaver
3. California Sea Lion
4. Sea otter
5. African Leopard
6. White Rhino
7. Capybara
8. Rock wallaby
9. Mongoose
10. Wolverine
11. Moose
12. Mountain Lion
13: Bobcat
14. Lynx
15. American Alligator
16. Chinstrap penguin
17. Manatee
18. Alligator Snapping Turtle
19. Black howler monkey
20. Dromedary
21. Badger
22. Meerkat
23. American ground hog
24. Baboon
25 Emu
26. Porcupine
27. Great grey kangaroo
28. Harbor seal
29. Wombat
30. Golden Lion Tamarin
 
Can I point people to vote for the Lyrebird more? It's a peacock-like bird (so it doesn't have to be small enclosure) that can copy ANY sound it hears even chainsaws, they are very beautiful and special as well!

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Please vote for it more, so frontier sees it!
 
I love Ethiopian unique wildlife so that is my biggest priority:

1. Swanyne’s Hartebeest
2. Menilik Bushbuck
3. Ethiopian Walia Ibex
4. Bale Mountain Vervet monkey
5. Somali Wild Donkey
6. Gelada baboon
7. Ethiopian wolf
8. Mountain nyala
9. Serval
10. Honey badger
11. Caracal
12. Addax
13. Scimitar oryx
14. Red River hog
15. Mantled guereza
16. Eld’s deer
17. Amur leopard
18. Stripped hyena
19. Takin
20. Markhor
21. Blackbuck
22. Gray langur
23. Anoa
24. Lar Gibbon
25. Caribbean Manatee
26. Cougar
27. Ocelot
28. Maned wolf
29. Coati
30. Capybara
 
Easy peasy 😜

1. Leopard
2. White rhinoceros
3. Sumatran rhinoceros
4. Black rhinoceros
5. Javan rhinoceros
6. Brazilian tapir
7. Mountain tapir
8. Kabomani tapir
9. Onager or Kiang
10. Somalian wild donkey
11. Polish Konik horse
12. Visayan warty pig
13. Bearded pig
14. Red River hog
15. Peccary
16. Red hartebeest
17. Bontebok
18. Beira
19. Roan antelope
20. Scimitar oryx
21. Arabian oryx
22. Eland
23. Kudu
24. Sitatunga
25. Addax
26. Waterbuck
27. Nile lechwe
28. Dama gazelle
29. Takin
30. Blackbuck
 
While I want and like the White Rhino and definitely should be in the game, I'm over here doing a happy dance that the Meerkat is currently reigning supreme (and of course, that could change very quickly)

Wouldn't it be something if the upcoming patch came with these two animals though, for free for all with the base game. Sort of a "oh, by the way...we wanted to surprise you but happy belated 1 year anniversary!" I absolutely don't expect it to happen but I can dream.
 
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Ok, after I learned the Mountain Goat is actually a Mountain Antelope, I really want it in more wishlist and in the game now! Damn, how can anything be so awesome but so unpopular?!?
 
That's what I'm saying about the Coyote
Now it's probably because I really want to make a canine and feline themed zoo, but I'm absolutely open to different species of felines and canines (maybe not so much subspecies). I'm absolutely on board the Coyote train (i did vote for it) but I realize it's popularity is low and its unfortunate reputation as a nuisance rather an an animal to be educated about may work against it.
 
While I want and like the White Rhino and definitely should be in the game, I'm over here doing a happy dance that the Meerkat is currently reigning supreme (and of course, that could change very quickly)

Wouldn't it be something if the upcoming patch came with these two animals though, for free for all with the base game. Sort of a "oh, by the way...we wanted to surprise you but happy belated 1 year anniversary!" I absolutely don't expect it to happen but I can dream.

I actually did have white rhino on my list but then I remembered servals exist and my cat-loving heart had to bump it!

also, OP, just so you’re aware, the numbers on the meta-list still count the crossed-out animals that are now in or due in the game which changes the ranking a little. Not sure if it’s possible to keep them in the list whilst changing that but just to point it out. (just to make it easier for Frontier to see what we want next hehe)
 
Might as well put my list on here:
  1. Southern White Rhinoceros
  2. Capybara
  3. Marabou Stork
  4. Black and White Colobus Monkey
  5. California Sea Lion
  6. Bennet's Wallaby
  7. Siamang
  8. Emu
  9. Meerkat
  10. Francois' Langur
  11. Southern Tamandua
  12. Greater Rhea
  13. Eastern Black Rhinoceros
  14. False Gavial
  15. African Crested Porcupine
  16. Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
  17. Greater Kudu
  18. North American River Otter
  19. Guanaco
  20. Scimitar-Horned Oryx
  21. Visayan Warty Pig
  22. Humboldt Penguin
  23. Sloth Bear
  24. Desert Bighorn Sheep
  25. Ocelot
  26. Sika Deer
  27. Przewalski's Horse
  28. Sichuan Takin
  29. Nigerian Dwarf Goat
  30. Chacoan Peccary
 
1. Gibbon
2. Beaver
3. California Sea Lion
4. Sea otter
5. African Leopard
6. White Rhino
7. Capybara
8. Rock wallaby
9. Mongoose
10. Wolverine
11. Moose
12. Mountain Lion
13: Bobcat
14. Lynx
15. American Alligator
16. Chinstrap penguin
17. Manatee
18. Alligator Snapping Turtle
19. Black howler monkey
20. Dromedary
21. Badger
22. Meerkat
23. American ground hog
24. Baboon
25 Emu
26. Porcupine
27. Great grey kangaroo
28. Harbor seal
29. Wombat
30. Golden Lion Tamarin

I love Ethiopian unique wildlife so that is my biggest priority:

1. Swanyne’s Hartebeest
2. Menilik Bushbuck
3. Ethiopian Walia Ibex
4. Bale Mountain Vervet monkey
5. Somali Wild Donkey
6. Gelada baboon
7. Ethiopian wolf
8. Mountain nyala
9. Serval
10. Honey badger
11. Caracal
12. Addax
13. Scimitar oryx
14. Red River hog
15. Mantled guereza
16. Eld’s deer
17. Amur leopard
18. Stripped hyena
19. Takin
20. Markhor
21. Blackbuck
22. Gray langur
23. Anoa
24. Lar Gibbon
25. Caribbean Manatee
26. Cougar
27. Ocelot
28. Maned wolf
29. Coati
30. Capybara

Easy peasy 😜

1. Leopard
2. White rhinoceros
3. Sumatran rhinoceros
4. Black rhinoceros
5. Javan rhinoceros
6. Brazilian tapir
7. Mountain tapir
8. Kabomani tapir
9. Onager or Kiang
10. Somalian wild donkey
11. Polish Konik horse
12. Visayan warty pig
13. Bearded pig
14. Red River hog
15. Peccary
16. Red hartebeest
17. Bontebok
18. Beira
19. Roan antelope
20. Scimitar oryx
21. Arabian oryx
22. Eland
23. Kudu
24. Sitatunga
25. Addax
26. Waterbuck
27. Nile lechwe
28. Dama gazelle
29. Takin
30. Blackbuck

Might as well put my list on here:
  1. Southern White Rhinoceros
  2. Capybara
  3. Marabou Stork
  4. Black and White Colobus Monkey
  5. California Sea Lion
  6. Bennet's Wallaby
  7. Siamang
  8. Emu
  9. Meerkat
  10. Francois' Langur
  11. Southern Tamandua
  12. Greater Rhea
  13. Eastern Black Rhinoceros
  14. False Gavial
  15. African Crested Porcupine
  16. Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
  17. Greater Kudu
  18. North American River Otter
  19. Guanaco
  20. Scimitar-Horned Oryx
  21. Visayan Warty Pig
  22. Humboldt Penguin
  23. Sloth Bear
  24. Desert Bighorn Sheep
  25. Ocelot
  26. Sika Deer
  27. Przewalski's Horse
  28. Sichuan Takin
  29. Nigerian Dwarf Goat
  30. Chacoan Peccary
All added!
I actually did have white rhino on my list but then I remembered servals exist and my cat-loving heart had to bump it!

also, OP, just so you’re aware, the numbers on the meta-list still count the crossed-out animals that are now in or due in the game which changes the ranking a little. Not sure if it’s possible to keep them in the list whilst changing that but just to point it out. (just to make it easier for Frontier to see what we want next hehe)
Yep, I was aware. Indeed the ranking was slightly affected, but not the order and number of votes. Anyway, I moved all the already in-game animals to the bottom of the table with their respective votes.
 
My 30 animals(mostly non-specific species):
1.Meerkat
2.White rhino
3. Moose
4.Emu
5.Addax
6.Common wombat
7.Wallaby
8.Tasmanian devil
9.Secretary bird
10.Capybara
11.Greater Rhea
12.Maned wolf
13.Ocelot
14.Cougar
15.Przewalski's Wild horse
16. kot Pallasa
17.Alpine ibex
18.Chamois
19.Red deer
20.Wisent
21.European badger
22.Eurasian lynx
23.Platypus
24.African leopard
25.Impala
26.Eland
27.Jackal
28.Greater kudu
29.Fennec fox
30.Dromedary camel
 
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