I'm heading out of internet this evening. Hopefully I return to #200 pages and a new dlc. Until then...
Deluxe - pygmy hippo. I use it anywhere I would use a regular hippo because the space requirements aren't so outrageous.
Arctic - Reindeer. Almost every zoo has them, but usually I'm pretending that they're elk.
South America - white-headed capuchin. Small monkee!
Australia - Cassowary. Birb!
Southeast Asia - North Sulawesi babirusa. A great, small, filler animal.
Africa - meerkat. Love em.
North America - Moose. I know they're not common in some places, but where I am EVERY zoo has a moose, often as their starter animal, so not having them was weird.
Europe - European fallow deer. A very beautiful ungulate. The lynx is close those. I adore small cats.
Wetlands - Red crowned crane. Birb!
Conservation - Prezwalski's wild horse. I veey clearly remember seeing these in a zoo as a young child on ny first trip to a zoo. I remember the sign sauing that they were extinct in the wild and how few were in captivity and being sad about it, and it makes me so happy when I read about how much better they'e doing now.