Animals escaping since last update

My partner who does not play pz gave me a great suggestion to prevent infighting when animals come of age:

You first get a warning: "animal... Is almost mature" right?
That's when you move your juvenile away to a different enclosure.
And then the animal matures away from the adults. No fighting happens. 👍
 
In the first zoo I opened after the update, I only had one animal species escaping, the European Fallow Deer. They would jump into the empty habitat next to theirs. Raising the barriers didn't do anything and neither did adding elephant grass, as I've had work in the past. I finally chose aquatic rock 09 and placed it against the fence, exterior side, actually in the empty habitat, and the jump point disappeared.

Yesterday I opened a zoo I expected issues with, since there are four habitats with Przewalski's Horses in them. LOL, I was right, chaos ensued and in addition to the horses, I suddenly had an escaping Eurasian Lynx. Raising the barrier height did work for the Lynx but not for the horses. Again, I went with placing the aquatic rock like I did with the deer, against the barrier, exterior side of the habitat. Again, it worked beautifully. Interestingly enough, placing one of those rocks would take care of eliminating multiple jump points. I ended up only having to place about five of that rock style to take care of all jump points that were indicated for all four habitats, much to my surprise. No more escapes and the zoo is once again peaceful, although there are some horses with a stomach ache from raiding bins. :)

I don't know if other style rocks might accomplish the same thing. The aquatic rock was the first I tried and since it worked, I didn't try any others. Jump points are the only issues I've seen so far, so if other types of escape points are also showing, I don't know if placing the rock will help or not. Could be worth a try, just to see.
 
I'm so frustrated right now! I tried fixing habitats with f**kn 8m high barriers (yeah, looks so nice and cozy, the newly built high security animal prison) and the animals still escape. 9 of 10 habitats are not even habitats anymore, since they act like there's no barrier at all. In ' ALL of my zoos.
I'm so upset I have bought the twilight pack or whatever caused this. Hundreds of hours building these zoos - wasted. From "favourite game" to "no playable game at all" in just one day x(

Please, please, PLEASE - fix this soon! I want to continue playing and this is just impossible right now.
 
Pull back shelters, trees rocks, and climbing enrichment from the fence The update changing what is climbable. I'm watching them all climb onto their shelters, trees and rocks before leaping out of the habitat. Without any climbable stuff with 6m of the fence It seems to stop all escapes for me, at least.
 
I just don't have time and fun re-building EVERY SINGLE habitat in more than 10 franchise zoos until their ugliness from being surrounded by 10m fences can compare to Kim Jong Un's hairstyle! That just can't be the solution!
 
I mean, unfortunately it's either that, or they reverse the change and animals can no longer climbing things they realistically should have been to the whole time. Taking Cougars for example, they have a vertical jump of 15 feet, about 3.5m. And a horizontal jump of 30 feet, nearly 10m. Snow leopards can do 20 feet (6m) vertical and 50 feet (15+ meters) horizontal.
 
It seems that some changes were made to leaping. If the terrain outside the habitat is slightly too high animals can jump onto it. Even the added height of a path can be enough. Also, if a climbable object is within one meter of the outside of the habitat, climbing animals can leap onto it. Also, some changes seem to affect how close staff and animals can get to some scenery objects which blocks them even though traversable area shows clear passage.
 
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