Best candidates for a Nocturnal pack?
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I'm gonna guess you're from New Zealand?
It's interesting - most of the animals people come up with for nocturnal houses are animals that aren't actually fully nocturnal, or at least don't have to be, such as the porcupine or armadillo (both of which are frequently displayed in non-nocturnal habitats). I suppose that's part of the idea, though, since we aren't advocating for a new habitat type.
Any of these cheers!
I know you said nocturnal house...but leopards are technically nocturnal too, and I want them in the game. And the obvious pick is bats if they ever add flying mechanics.
- Tasmanian Devil (Oceania)
- Aye Aye (Africa)
- Eurasian Badger (Europe)
- Giant Armadillo (South America)
- Kiwi (Oceania)
I know you said nocturnal house...but leopards are technically nocturnal too, and I want them in the game. And the obvious pick is bats if they ever add flying mechanics.
- African Leopard
- Vampire Bat
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Australia and have been lucky enough to go to NZ many times - Rotarua was one of my favorite places ever. Although not nocturnal - we stayed in a Motel in Rotarua years back and out the back was a crystal clear running stream - like a babbling brook (being an aquarium addict - they stream was a dream of aquatic plants, sparkling water and bog plant edges ) - and there were huge Rainbow Trout just swimming only one and a half metres from the actual kitchen door. It was incredible - and the Glow worm caves and Kiwi's I saw there were so AMAZING.
And where I live in Australia - they built a Woolworth's shopping store right out and over the Platypus habitat in the bank of the local Creek/River.
Was so controversial but I have to say - they still live there and are thriving - you can stand at the town bridge and look down and often see the Platypus's - they are quite active sometimes during the day.
Rotorua. It's nice but it's a total tourist trap. The West Coast of the South Island is probably the less touristy way to experience NZ's natural wonders - tons of national parks around the alps, heaps of beautiful walking tracks, plenty of native bush, and a nice mix of native forest/alpine habitat and coastal habitat, which NZ is also famous for.
True - I still love it for being so different - when I went first, 32 (or more?) years ago - it still had charm, older buildings and was less touristy - I think it was why the Trout were so tame and non-scared of eager tourists. Think I would weep to see it now, but would love to travel again to The West Coast and see all of the amazing beauty of the place - NZ is just amazing - I'm in total awe of how magnificent it is.
Yeah, it can be if you go to the right places. I mean, I live in a city, and it's pretty much exactly like living in a city anywhere else in the world. I often worry about NZ's perception overseas as some kind of paradise. We get a lot of British tourists and immigrants who seem to have this perception of NZ from the 70's, where it was all small towns, unenforced rules, and empty roads, or that we're a universally friendly, "chilled out" place with no worries or stress and abundant nature. Truth is we aren't really at all different from any other western nation. Australia has its own natural wonders and beauty; the rainforests of the Northern Territory, Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef, and so on. Every country does.
Anyway, off-topic. I'm glad you found NZ beautiful, but I think "magnificent" is overselling it is what I mean.
True - but the natural beauty just slaps you in the face when you get out of the cities - and meanwhile in Aus - I'm really lucky to be able to walk down the end of my street and be on the edge of a mountain overlooking the Glasshouse Mountains, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. So I'm lucky I don't have to travel too far. NZ - has wow factor almost everywhere you look outside of the big smokes - I think the green has a lot to do with it - you have this amazing green and lushness with generic cities built in between. So I still love it
Two-toed sloth
Northern tamandua
Greater mouse-deer
Fossa
Tokay gecko (exhibit)
Northern tamandua
Greater mouse-deer
Fossa
Tokay gecko (exhibit)
Not really, though. NZ has been hugely deforested - most of the country is farmland. There's more forest in the North Island but a heap of it has still been cleared, and the South Island only has abundant native forests on the West Coast and in the Marlborough and Fiordland regions, and on Stewart Island (now that's a great place to go for native wildlife).
Some sort of large flying fox (rodriguez, large, or indian flying fox), vampire bat, smaller fruit bat (straw-colored flying fox?)
The third one should be the Egyptian fruit bat, it's the most common in zoos.
If I could pick three species of bat, I would choose (for variety of location, colour and diet):
- Livingstone's fruit bat: One of the world's largest fruit bats, a Critically Endangered species which mostly has black fur with bright orange eyes; they are a soaring species that is recommended for captive breeding and is kept in three European zoos.
- Australian ghost bat: These are Australia's biggest microbat, named for their ghostly pale grey fur; they are predators that feed on other vertebrates such as birds, mice and other bats. Although not kept anywhere outside Australia, these Vulnerable bats are kept in a number of Australian zoos.
- Greater bulldog bat: Slightly bigger than the ghost bat, these bright orange South American bats are best-known for trawling fish from the water - they are one of the biggest bats in the Americas and are kept in at least one US zoo (Omaha).
- Livingstone's fruit bat: One of the world's largest fruit bats, a Critically Endangered species which mostly has black fur with bright orange eyes; they are a soaring species that is recommended for captive breeding and is kept in three European zoos.
- Australian ghost bat: These are Australia's biggest microbat, named for their ghostly pale grey fur; they are predators that feed on other vertebrates such as birds, mice and other bats. Although not kept anywhere outside Australia, these Vulnerable bats are kept in a number of Australian zoos.
- Greater bulldog bat: Slightly bigger than the ghost bat, these bright orange South American bats are best-known for trawling fish from the water - they are one of the biggest bats in the Americas and are kept in at least one US zoo (Omaha).
No flying fox? I do love the ghost bat though
Edit: the Livingstone is a flying fox, nevermind. I do think a vampire takes the bulldog bat
- japanese giant salamander
- slow loris
- greater bilby
- fossa
- coconut crab