Animals you horde in your trade center

[jcp011c]

With the recent increase in trade center spots from 50 to 200 - and thank you so much for that Frontier - are there any animals you keep a lot of in your trade center? Maybe it's for future plans, or animals that are normally high value that are lower when you spot them, or you just like to horde them? Or what animals do you routinely search for more of regularly? This can be for either zoo cash or CC.

Mine are below:


CC animals:;

Apparently I'm obsessed with the first two:

Giant Panda
Bengal Tiger

But also to a lesser degree:

Western African Lion
African Elephant
Clouded Leopard
Red Panda

Typically for zoo cash:

Koala
Meerkats (I'll buy 4-6 of them quite often.)

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

turtles.
why?
20 + year maturnity baby

 

[Firestar97]

I'm currently hoarding lots of Bengal Tigers, Lions and Gharials (for the next Challenge). I keep them because I want to get a complete Population of 4x 100% Animals. With the Lions I'm making good Progress and I'm regularly putting the ones that aren't needed for Breeding on the Market (which is annoying because of the current Bug that often appears when you want to sell Animals which means that I often need to click so fast that I can't adjust the Price). When I'm selling Lions, there are often also white Lions because I've started to breed the Leucism out of my Population because almost only white ones were left.
Maybe I should also start hoarding Koalas. The Koala Populations in my Koala House and in my Eucalyptus Greenhouse currently always went extinct. But the Trade Center is full ._.

 

[FoxyDee]

I usually buy short lived species in advance whenever I see a good one (I play in challenge mode, so animals are not always easily available). I think I will stock on Fennec Foxes and Meerkats, I dont see them often enough in the Market.

 

[Britches]

For CC I use "niche animals" no one cares about:

Dholes
Babirusas
Polar wolves
Llamas
Reindeer
Dingos

But since I'm no "hardcore breeder" with breeding zoos or special breeding habitats and all the animals I sell for CC are normal offspring from my regular zoos, I can't speak of "hoarding" them. Once I get offspring with golden stats, I keep some of them for my other zoos and some of them I put on the market for a fair price everyone can afford

For future plans and because these animals are used in pretty all of my zoos, I use to hoard:

Tigers. Bengal and siberian.
Snow Leopards.
Cheetahs.
Jaguars.
Clouded leopards.

...cat person, yeah, yeah. I don't hoard lions though. The lion market is always overflowing, so I don't think they'll be hard to get when needed in future times. And when I need some for a new zoo, I KNOW, I have other zoos with offspring cause they breed as fast as popcorn pops

 

[DarthQuell]

When I plan a section (I divide my zoos by region, so SEA, SA, NA, etc.), I like to hoard the species that won't be easy to find in the market. Examples of this are: giant otters, chimpanzees, etc. I also like to hoard exhibit animals that i don't see often, usually scorpions.

In general I hoard animals until I can get at least 1 breeding pair, maybe if I can 1 male 2 females

 

[iloveyourzoos]

I've got a storage zoo that I use for my .... strategic overstocking ....

For the trade center itself, I've been trying to keep about 50 spots for animals that are actively on the market whenever I'm online. So whether I'm building or breeding or managing, I pause every hour to put them back on the market. I try to keep a mix of animals in that 50, from warthogs to lions, to support the franchise market.

The other spots are usually for the zoo I'm working on at the moment. Can be the next breeding pairs, or emergency baby holding. For my breeding zoos in particular, I'll often place the moms in there as soon as they've given birth, so the dads can mate with someone else while the interbirth period runs. (I add the last birth date to the name, so I know when they're ready to come back in).

In most of my zoos the exhibit animals are mostly for cash, so I don't store them very often. But I do have a couple zoos where I have made a full "habitat" feel out of several exhibits of the same animal pushed together. So for those I'll be saving high quality snakes, frogs, and lizards and breeding them to the highest quality.

 

[Firestar97]

But I do have a couple zoos where I have made a full "habitat" feel out of several exhibits of the same animal pushed together. So for those I'll be saving high quality snakes, frogs, and lizards and breeding them to the highest quality.

Sounds really interesting. I would love to see this