I'd like to see Goodfellow or Matschie's Tree Kangaroo too. I know you said any but which would you like to see?
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These two are the ones most wanted by people on the forum, I'd also go for either of the two. I usually prefer species that are in zoo collections more often, except for some of the iconic animals that were in previous zoo games.
I understand. The thing is though they are about the same numbers in zoos too; 55 GF tree kangaroos and 53 M tree kangaroos.....
Yeah, that's why I'm ok with either of the two.
I would love either one but I have more of a fondness for matchsies
no no i want them as habitat animals. I think both a python and rhinoceros iguana (as far as i know one of the biggest iguanas) could be great habitat animals if frontier wants them to be. The python less so, as its proppably to much work, but the iguana could defenetly work. And hey, its not like they are the only pipe dreams on this list
Okay, heres my list
1. Capybara
2. Foosa
3. Red River Hog
4. Emu
5. Alligator Snapping Turtle
6. Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
7. Hamdryas Baboon
8. Amur Leopard
9. Cougar
10. Sloth Bear
11. Lar Gibbon
12. Brown-Throated Sloth
13. King Cobra
14. Honey Badger
15. Bush Dog
16. Maned Wolf
17. Virginia Opposum
18. Platypus
19. Short-Beaked Echidna
20. Aye-Aye
21. Perentie
22. Frilled Lizard
23. Central Bearded Lizard
24. Greater Rhea
25. Lowland Paca
26. Red-Rumped Agouti
27. Radiated Tortise
28. Southern Tamandua
29. Bat-Eared Fox
30. Panther Chameleon
Tried to make the species of animal specific, instead of "sloth" or "rhea"
1. Capybara
2. Foosa
3. Red River Hog
4. Emu
5. Alligator Snapping Turtle
6. Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
7. Hamdryas Baboon
8. Amur Leopard
9. Cougar
10. Sloth Bear
11. Lar Gibbon
12. Brown-Throated Sloth
13. King Cobra
14. Honey Badger
15. Bush Dog
16. Maned Wolf
17. Virginia Opposum
18. Platypus
19. Short-Beaked Echidna
20. Aye-Aye
21. Perentie
22. Frilled Lizard
23. Central Bearded Lizard
24. Greater Rhea
25. Lowland Paca
26. Red-Rumped Agouti
27. Radiated Tortise
28. Southern Tamandua
29. Bat-Eared Fox
30. Panther Chameleon
Tried to make the species of animal specific, instead of "sloth" or "rhea"
I guess everyone wish for gibbons too.
Majority of my animals are from North America.
1. American alligator
2. American black bear
3. Mountain lion
4. Moose
5. California sea lion
6. Harbor seal
7. Sea otter
8. Kinkajou
9. Peccary
10. Ocelot
11. Coati
12. Linne's sloth
13. Agouti, any
14. Red fox
15. Tree kangaroo
16. Tasmanian devil
17. Echidna
18. Wombat
19. Wallaby
20. Nile crocodile
21. African leopard
22. Black rhino
23. Rhea
24. Gelada
25. Platypus
26. Dromedary camel
27. Fennec fox
28. Bush dog
29. Giant armadillo
30. Black caiman
All added!
My top 30 (in random order):
1. (Black-capped) Squirrel monkey
2. Walrus
3. Dolphin
4. Shark
5. Batoidea / Rays
6. Golden lion tamarin
7. Capybara
8. Coypu
9. Darwin's rhea
10. Emu
11. Common crane
12. Lynx
13. Dromedary
14. Spider monkey
15. Porcupine
16. Raccoon
17. White-faced saki
18. Meerkat
19. Green sea turtle
20. Bat-eared fox
21. Alpine ibex
22. Marmot
23. Scimitar oryx
24. Wallaby
25. Sea lion
26. Yellow-cheeked gibbon
27. Ankole-Watusi
28. Cotton-top tamarin
29. African penguin
30. Harbour porpoise.
1. (Black-capped) Squirrel monkey
2. Walrus
3. Dolphin
4. Shark
5. Batoidea / Rays
6. Golden lion tamarin
7. Capybara
8. Coypu
9. Darwin's rhea
10. Emu
11. Common crane
12. Lynx
13. Dromedary
14. Spider monkey
15. Porcupine
16. Raccoon
17. White-faced saki
18. Meerkat
19. Green sea turtle
20. Bat-eared fox
21. Alpine ibex
22. Marmot
23. Scimitar oryx
24. Wallaby
25. Sea lion
26. Yellow-cheeked gibbon
27. Ankole-Watusi
28. Cotton-top tamarin
29. African penguin
30. Harbour porpoise.
In random order. I know a couple are already rumoured to be in the next dlc, but as of yet they are not in the game so I included on my list.
1. Capybara
2. Meerkat
3. Fennec Fox
4. Gibbon (any)
5. Wild horse (any)
6. Aye-aye
7. Jackal (any)
8. Small cats eg. fishing cat, pallas cat, ocelot, serval etc
9. Fossa
10. Tree Kangaroo (any)
11. Rock-hopper penguin
12. Bush dogs
13. Small deer eg. Kirk's dik dik
14. Spider monkey
15. Sloth
16. Eagle (any)
17. Vulture (any)
18. Beaver
19. Arctic fox
20. Maned wolf
21. Porcupine
22. Sea Lion
23. Scimitar oryx
24. Asian short-clawed otter (or other otter species)
25. Platypus
26. Giant armadillo
27. Mongoose (any)
28. Raccoon
29. Sifaka
30. Malaysian giant turtles (or other large turtle species)
1. Capybara
2. Meerkat
3. Fennec Fox
4. Gibbon (any)
5. Wild horse (any)
6. Aye-aye
7. Jackal (any)
8. Small cats eg. fishing cat, pallas cat, ocelot, serval etc
9. Fossa
10. Tree Kangaroo (any)
11. Rock-hopper penguin
12. Bush dogs
13. Small deer eg. Kirk's dik dik
14. Spider monkey
15. Sloth
16. Eagle (any)
17. Vulture (any)
18. Beaver
19. Arctic fox
20. Maned wolf
21. Porcupine
22. Sea Lion
23. Scimitar oryx
24. Asian short-clawed otter (or other otter species)
25. Platypus
26. Giant armadillo
27. Mongoose (any)
28. Raccoon
29. Sifaka
30. Malaysian giant turtles (or other large turtle species)
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The malaysian giant turtle is a super cool pick! It would be great to get an aquatic turtle, and a river turtle just feels more fitting then a sea turtle
While the number of new lists is slowing down, this thread feels like a tremendous success. 180 lists submitted (and any that haven't been calculated as yet). Interesting things to note (and this may seem odd to do but I have OCD and lists and random facts about them are kind of a pleasant trigger for that If this would preferred to be removed just let me know, I always get a kick out of random facts, but it may not be everyone's idea of fun.
There's a very large gap after the top 5 (which are the only ones over 100 votes so far), it would seem to be clear choices that should all get made (and some probably very very soon most likely). They are also the only five animals where more than half the lists have included them (cut off for halfway being 90)
At one time, the top two were the top two for a long time until very recently when the animal that was in third place almost all of that time jumped over them and is now leading the list.
As far back as I can recall, taking into account after there got to be more than a handful of lists, the top 7 animals have remained the top 7 animals, though their positions within that top 7 have changed.
Only 17 animals have a third or more of the lists including them, which is amazing how much variety there is in our lists. This is a good thing in my opinion, that our lists are sort of all over the place, there's a wide variety of animals and after you take into account some of the more well known missing animals, Frontier will have their work cut out for them to really make animal choices that people are most interested in seeing (most being, your top 30 that is)
A rodent is the leader of the list. After the notable Capybara, there's only four more in the top 100(at that point I stop counting as it seems like it a good stopping point for trivia), 2 of which are also in the top 20. I bring this up because the absence of rodents is fairly interesting, but we don't want just any rodents. Over all we have very specific rodents we are rallying for.
Avian inclusion is notable - the highest ranking bird capable of flight is the Secretary Bird at #28 currently. Only four other potential flying birds are in the top 100. Given the rules were for not including an idea of Avian mechanics I would take this to mean the votes for these would be for including these five without flying mechanics. To me that translates that as a (very broad) generalization we're overall not that interested in the inclusion of birds without flying mechanics. Something for Frontier to think on.
Top 100 to take a look at the commonly pointed out "another canine, bear, etc and the potential popularity of these families - Felines: a total of 8, 7 if you combine the African and Asian Leopards. Canines: 5, 3 of which are foxes. Primates: 10. Ursine: 3 Now this one's really interesting: Antelopes (Not including deer, oxen type species, sheep or goats) 11 - but the highest ranking is currently the Scimitar-Horned Oryx at #20 position - if we added in other similar type of animals like oxen, deer, sheep and goats that total number nearly doubles, with the Alpine Ibex the highest ranking currently. I find it interesting because there's a high degree of desire to see more added in the game, but there's not a particular species that's really got a large amount of support. While this group of animals is mostly not something I'm interested in, particularly the ones that are antelopes, I'm not really in the majority here (that last is not trivia, that's commentary, sorry!)
I'm just doing this off the top of my head, and I wouldn't want to get the count wrong, but it would be interesting to see how the continents place by animal representation. Just looking over the list quickly I think Africa would probably have the most representation, but I may be wrong on that. There's also the fact of species appearing in more than one continent to muddle up those numbers.
I can't wait til the next go round after the next pack releases, or later than that, whenever a second go round of lists is done. Especially in what happens with the upper regions of the list, which is in all likelihood going to be heavily affected.
If this would preferred to be removed just let me know, I always get a kick out of random facts, but it may not be everyone's idea of fun.There's a very large gap after the top 5 (which are the only ones over 100 votes so far), it would seem to be clear choices that should all get made (and some probably very very soon most likely). They are also the only five animals where more than half the lists have included them (cut off for halfway being 90)
At one time, the top two were the top two for a long time until very recently when the animal that was in third place almost all of that time jumped over them and is now leading the list.
As far back as I can recall, taking into account after there got to be more than a handful of lists, the top 7 animals have remained the top 7 animals, though their positions within that top 7 have changed.
Only 17 animals have a third or more of the lists including them, which is amazing how much variety there is in our lists. This is a good thing in my opinion, that our lists are sort of all over the place, there's a wide variety of animals and after you take into account some of the more well known missing animals, Frontier will have their work cut out for them to really make animal choices that people are most interested in seeing (most being, your top 30 that is)
A rodent is the leader of the list. After the notable Capybara, there's only four more in the top 100(at that point I stop counting as it seems like it a good stopping point for trivia), 2 of which are also in the top 20. I bring this up because the absence of rodents is fairly interesting, but we don't want just any rodents. Over all we have very specific rodents we are rallying for.
Avian inclusion is notable - the highest ranking bird capable of flight is the Secretary Bird at #28 currently. Only four other potential flying birds are in the top 100. Given the rules were for not including an idea of Avian mechanics I would take this to mean the votes for these would be for including these five without flying mechanics. To me that translates that as a (very broad) generalization we're overall not that interested in the inclusion of birds without flying mechanics. Something for Frontier to think on.
Top 100 to take a look at the commonly pointed out "another canine, bear, etc and the potential popularity of these families - Felines: a total of 8, 7 if you combine the African and Asian Leopards. Canines: 5, 3 of which are foxes. Primates: 10. Ursine: 3 Now this one's really interesting: Antelopes (Not including deer, oxen type species, sheep or goats) 11 - but the highest ranking is currently the Scimitar-Horned Oryx at #20 position - if we added in other similar type of animals like oxen, deer, sheep and goats that total number nearly doubles, with the Alpine Ibex the highest ranking currently. I find it interesting because there's a high degree of desire to see more added in the game, but there's not a particular species that's really got a large amount of support. While this group of animals is mostly not something I'm interested in, particularly the ones that are antelopes, I'm not really in the majority here (that last is not trivia, that's commentary, sorry!)
I'm just doing this off the top of my head, and I wouldn't want to get the count wrong, but it would be interesting to see how the continents place by animal representation. Just looking over the list quickly I think Africa would probably have the most representation, but I may be wrong on that. There's also the fact of species appearing in more than one continent to muddle up those numbers.
I can't wait til the next go round after the next pack releases, or later than that, whenever a second go round of lists is done. Especially in what happens with the upper regions of the list, which is in all likelihood going to be heavily affected.
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1. Arctic Fox
2. Meerkat
3. Any new Giraffe (sub)species
4. Any new wild goat or sheep (Caprinae)
5. African Crested Porcupine
6. Przewalski's Wild Horses (idk how to spell)
7. Grevy's Zebra
8. White-tailed Deer
9. Snowshoe Hare
10. Greater Kudu
11. Impala
12. Aardwolf
13. African Civet
14. Banded Mongoose
15. Dwarf Mongoose
16. Striped Hyena
17. Bat-eared Fox
18. Red Fox
19. Red Deer or North American Elk
20. Red Wolf
21. Any Jackal (or Coyote) species
22. Capybara
23. Patagonian Cavy
24. Rock Hyrax
25. Virginia Opossum
26. Moose
27. Two-toed Sloth
28. Pallas' Cat
29. Caracal
30. Serval
2. Meerkat
3. Any new Giraffe (sub)species
4. Any new wild goat or sheep (Caprinae)
5. African Crested Porcupine
6. Przewalski's Wild Horses (idk how to spell)
7. Grevy's Zebra
8. White-tailed Deer
9. Snowshoe Hare
10. Greater Kudu
11. Impala
12. Aardwolf
13. African Civet
14. Banded Mongoose
15. Dwarf Mongoose
16. Striped Hyena
17. Bat-eared Fox
18. Red Fox
19. Red Deer or North American Elk
20. Red Wolf
21. Any Jackal (or Coyote) species
22. Capybara
23. Patagonian Cavy
24. Rock Hyrax
25. Virginia Opossum
26. Moose
27. Two-toed Sloth
28. Pallas' Cat
29. Caracal
30. Serval
To be honest, I don't think alligator snapping turtles would make a good habitat animal. Even the crocodiles move too much in the game as of now. The one animal that wouldn't make sense moving around all the time is the alligator snapping turtle. They would be perfect as a large exhibit animal if we do get an exhibit overhaul.
Yeah, I just want it in the game
I really want it too I don’t care how
It deserves to be a habitat animal... it's bigger than a Beaver and just as "lively"...
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