Arctic Campaign issues/glitches

Just started the first of the two Arctic campaign levels today, ran into some problems. Playing on Easy mode, if that helps at all.

-Keepers taking a HUGE amount of time in the small Keeper Huts prepping food, actually seem to be stuck looping the animation/procedure.

-Keepers staff queuing outside full facilities wouldn't go to another facility of the same type to perform their tasks (mostly small Keeper Huts, might have also had the same issue with small Quarantines)

-Multiple keepers REFUSING to acknowledge my Timber Wolves had zero food and were starving- they'd come in, look around, and their thought bubbles would say something like 'none of the animals in Timber Wolves are hungry!' and go wander off to their next task. Had two food trays and a couple of food enrichment items placed in the enclosure, nothing was getting filled. Noticed another keeper stuck looping food prep animation in the nearest small Keeper Hut. They would clean the enclosure (while my reindeer and Dall's sheep kept getting sick from dirty enclosures despite having two out of like five or seven keepers dedicated solely to cleaning enclosures) but not place food in the food trays or enrichment items. Had to send the whole pack to Quarantine to reset their stats.

I figure the queuing issue can probably be solved by just littering the zoo with facilities, and I got them un-stuck by firing and then re-hiring, but the refusal to feed my Timber Wolves remains. And it's just the Timbers- the Reindeer and Dall's sheep are getting fed, and the Arctic Wolves in the enclosure literally on the opposite side of an 8m path from the Timbers are being fed just fine as well.

Anyone have insights or suggestions?
 
It sucks but my main suggestion would be restarting the whole scenario - I had to do it once in the main campaign with breakages not being fixed but had no issues after a restart. It sounds like a rare glitch (or it probably would have had a fix already) so is most likely something didn't load right in the first place.
 
If you ever have keepers coming in and saying animals are fine, but you see the animal saying its starving starving, click the animal and send it to quarantine. They get fed while in quarantine and it will likely fix whatever glitch there is. Also check to make sure you have enough feeding stations within the enclosure, generally for animals such as wolves you need at least 1 per 1 animal that are in there. Click on the Habitat, then goto the Animals tab and look at Item Capacity under the list of animals, that should show whether you have enough or not.

As to staff queuing, I have that issue even within Franchise mode now and then, usually a save and exit then reopen has fixed it. However, at times it never worked, but I did find that by going in and changing the Work Zone, by either removing the keeper hut, or by adding others into the work zone, it fixes the problem.
 
Every time I had the problem of animals starving while the keepers say that they are not hungry is because there is a keeper stuck in the infinite loop of preparing food. If one keeper is already preparing food, the others will say the animals are not hungry and do nothing.

The bug with the keeper getting stuck preparing food happens if he is starting to prepare the food while on low energy. Then he wont be able to finish the task because his energy runs out, but he can't seem to leave the hut, thus he gets stuck. The way to solve this is to just delete the keepers hut, then he will go to the staffroom to rest. This bug only seem to happen to keepers that are not trained (only ever seen it with keepers that have 1-2 stars). So if you train the keepers, this should not happen.
 
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