Add deep diving to the Nile monitor
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Agreed!
Please Frontier!
While I do agree, it isn’t as easy as a change as you might think. You’d be seeing at least six different new animations for that.
Ideally, the Nile Monitor getting deep diving would just be a rig swap. Super easy.
I am hoping this is the same case that with the saltwater crocodile and the gharial. We wondered why Frontier only added deep diving to the croc and not to the gharial, but then they did added it in the next pack which was the South East Asia pack, a pack which the gharial matched well. So I'm hoping they saved adding diving to the Nile monitor for including it in the Arid animal pack, since this new pack is all African and the Nile monitor fits the region.
Komodos has deep dive?
Please add deep dive to Nile monitor, tapirs and moose
I don't think so, but I don't think komodos are really known for diving in their natural habitat.
They can like almost every tropical monitor but is not a thing that they do frequently, it Is very rare
Do moose deep dive? I know they'll stick their heads underwater to graze on water plants, but do they actually dive as a routine behavior? I think I'd be more thrilled to get an underwater herbivore feeder for the moose so that I can have them standing knee deep in water and grazing.
They dive deep enough and regularly enough to be considered regular prey to orca.
That's interesting, I'd heard orca preyed on them. But I assumed the moose would be swimming at the surface (crossing a narrow channel between the mainland and a nearby island) or the orca would get them close to shore since they are capable of beaching themselves and dragging prey items into deeper water. I just didn't imagine they actually dove underwater.
They can dive up to six metres and regularly eat aquatic vegetation. It's unlikely any zoo is going to accommodate this, though, so I don't see the point in adding deep diving to the moose of all animals.
Especially since the hippos still don't have proper underwater animations, just the underwater walking.
I wouldn't necessarily say Regular Prey, but it does happen.
Hippos can't actually swim. Walking along the bottom is realistically how they move around underwater. To breathe they actually kick off the bottom and take a breath at the surface before sinking back down.
I'd definitely like them to have surfacing animations where they push off from the bottom to get a breath and then sink back down, but other than that they're pretty realistic in their underwater animations. I would also like them to be able to eat from the underwater herbivore feeder enrichment.
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Yes, yes, we all know that. But they do a lot more than just walk along the bottom of the pool, in the wild and in captivity. Their range of aquatic behaviour in the game is severely limited, is my point.