Any lesser-known mixed-species habitats you'd recommend?

[Spiderhawk]

I decided to add some friends to my llama habitat: Dall sheep and reindeer
Yes they don’t like the same plants but they are all doing great and share a lot of enrichment

 

[abigenius]

It doesnt seem realistic to me.

Yes, it isn't realistic but it works in the game fine, like dwarf caimans wich the giant otters

 

[Captain Callum]

I decided to add some friends to my llama habitat: Dall sheep and reindeer
Yes they don’t like the same plants but they are all doing great and share a lot of enrichment

Another one is dall sheep and alpine ibex in a farmyard barn habitat which surprisingly worked out well for a petting zoo habitat. Not realistic of course but I couldn't resist paring both female sheep and basically goat together

 

[Spiderhawk]

So I experimented with breeding while interspecies are in the habitats.
Dwarf caimans haven’t bred while sharing with spectacled
My red foxes paired and bred while my Arctic foxes did not as if they were apart of the reds pack and don’t even have their alpha status.

 

[Rhombifer]

I would love to see that in game, birds cleaning gharials teeth
Gharials only eat fish

It could be a little risky with birds and small mammals. Anything larger is safe though.

http://madrascrocbank.blogspot.com/2009/10/old-gharial-who-learnt-new-trick.html

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Now I’ve seen pics from y’all and PZ has confirmed anteaters and manned wolfs plus capybaras get the interspecies bonus which amazes me. Do Manned wolfs seriously not eat capybaras or anteaters!? I know caimans and capybaras have been seen close together in the wild. Some of the examples you all have shown me usually involve a big tough herbivore and a carnivore that typically wouldn’t mess with that prey.

The guy most likly to put someone in a coffin in that habitat would be the anteater by far
They got bigass claws and no qualms about using them

 

[Spiderhawk]

Preparing my new Old World zoo and looking at options
Anyone know if these scenarios bellow are possible
Red/Arctic foxes+ European badgers
Fallow/red deer+reindeer+moose

 

[Karen F]

Preparing my new Old World zoo and looking at options
Anyone know if these scenarios bellow are possible
Red/Arctic foxes+ European badgers
Fallow/red deer+reindeer+moose

Probably possible in the game but maybe not realistic. I believe I read that moose for example are quite dominant and are best kept Alone. I am not an expert however. But I have never seen them in a mixed enclosure.

 

[Captain Callum]

Preparing my new Old World zoo and looking at options
Anyone know if these scenarios bellow are possible
Red/Arctic foxes+ European badgers
Fallow/red deer+reindeer+moose

Red fox and European Badger is noted in the zoolex pdf for mixed mustelide
Red deer and reindeer will work as a local zoo does this. Absolutely not moose though

 

[nutrit]

Now I’ve seen pics from y’all and PZ has confirmed anteaters and manned wolfs plus capybaras get the interspecies bonus which amazes me. Do Manned wolfs seriously not eat capybaras or anteaters!? I know caimans and capybaras have been seen close together in the wild. Some of the examples you all have shown me usually involve a big tough herbivore and a carnivore that typically wouldn’t mess with that prey.

 

[Chris1983]

I built an exhibit shared by Wild Water Buffalo and Red Crowned Cranes, because I thought it was more spicy than a Buffalo-only-exhibit and it works very well, because both share Asian wetlands.
Also I didn't want to build an European Badger habitat, but I treat them, as they were just living wildly in my Zoo, so I put them into the Fallow Deer's exhibit and both get along very well. Only the zoo visitors don't enter the Fallow Deer Exhibit anymore. But I can live with that.

 

[Spiderhawk]

Today I am working on a canine exclusive zoo.
Looking at space I was wondering if anyone has had success with:
Dhole, dingo or wild dog combo?
And if only one species will have pups just like the foxes sharing a habitat?

 

[Veah]

Probably possible in the game but maybe not realistic. I believe I read that moose for example are quite dominant and are best kept Alone. I am not an expert however. But I have never seen them in a mixed enclosure.

In Madrid there were a male moose and a male roe deer sharing enclosure for years without problems. They got along well, in fact.
But I'm not sure about red deer because maybe they are too big, and the moose perceives them more as a threat? Reindeer and fallow deer are kinda intermediate so I don't know, maybe it would work with enough space.

 

[Angeł]

Decided to add (don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet) THIS strange combination of California Sea Lion and Common Hippopotamus from Longleat Safari Park. I don’t know how well it’ll work in-game, as the animals at Longleat have a whole massive lake to explore. However, I think it could work in Planet Zoo.

 

[YesIndeed]

I know their not in the game but I thought it was funny. Dubbo zoo in NSW has African savanhah habitat giraffe, Zebra, ostrich, Guinea fowl and blackbuck.

I know they'd work fine together but it's an AFRICAN savanhah habitat. Blackbucks are from India lol.

 

[Karen F]

Decided to add (don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet) THIS strange combination of California Sea Lion and Common Hippopotamus from Longleat Safari Park. I don’t know how well it’ll work in-game, as the animals at Longleat have a whole massive lake to explore. However, I think it could work in Planet Zoo. View attachment 347026
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Weird combination of 3 animals looking at the pictures. I see a California sea lion but in the other picture it looks like a fur seal?

 

[Karen F]

I know their not in the game but I thought it was funny. Dubbo zoo in NSW has African savanhah habitat giraffe, Zebra, ostrich, Guinea fowl and blackbuck.

I know they'd work fine together but it's an AFRICAN savanhah habitat. Blackbucks are from India lol.

They probably didn't have a good enclosure (yet). Ah just put them with the giraffes. Visitors are to dumb to notice anyway

 

[YesIndeed]

They probably didn't have a good enclosure (yet). Ah just put them with the giraffes. Visitors are to dumb to notice anyway

They actually have 2 other blackbuck habitats there. I think they just really like blackbucks.

 

[Angeł]

Weird combination of 3 animals looking at the pictures. I see a California sea lion but in the other picture it looks like a fur seal?

As far as they advertise at the zoo and on their website, they only house California Sea Lions. It might just look a little different if it’s been out of the water for a while. Sea Lions do tend to look a bit fluffy like that when they’re dry. Also might be due to the fact that they’re housed in a freshwater lake - their fur might look different when dry as opposed to of they’d been in saltwater all day.
I’m not too sure. But I do know for sure that the combination at Longleat is only Common Hippos and Cali Sea Lions.