I think “ABC” animals for both zoos and more general pop culture are largely the same. Not all of them are megafauna (though most definitely tend to be). There are plenty of people that known about and go out of their way at the zoo to see macaws, capybaras, meerkats, sloths, otters, etc. and all these are smaller species. What qualifies a species as “ABC” is how ingrained it is into larger human culture. Is it one of the first species you think of when asked What starts with this letter?
DLC18 discussion and predictions
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I hope that's what happens but I am betting on a Highlands Pack or maybe a Old World Pack
Out of boredom, here's how I'd do things:
- Fall/Winter 2024 - Highlands (or whatever it's called) animal pack
- Palla's cat
- Hamadryas baboon
- Markhor
- Spectacled bear
- Aoudad
- Golden pheasant
- L'Hoerst monkey
- Jackson's chameleon (E)
- Early 2025 (let's say January/February) - Neotropics pack
- Black howler monkey
- Scarlet ibis
- Greater rhea
- Patagonian mara
- Hoffman's two-toed sloth (WE)
- May 2025 - Zookeeper Collection animal pack
- Geoffrey's spider monkey
- American black bear (sorry, bear haters)
- Great white pelican
- Any tree kangaroo
- Victoria crowned pigeon
- Grey langur
- Any duck
- King cobra (E)
I would love thi- WHERES THE HYRAX!!!!!!
Ok I swear national zookeeper day already happened
I always thought "ABC" animals were supposed to be animals everyone knows, like how everyone (who speaks a language using the Latin alphabet or a similar script) should know their ABC's. Like your lions, tigers, bears, wolves, elephants. And this list of animals changes, like how capybaras are becoming more well known with laymen outside Latin America. Not sure of any animals that have become less popular with the general public (like with dinosaurs, Allosaurus was way more popular before Tyrannosaurus was well known).
Less popular? Mematic animals after a while. Less well known? Probably not. Once an animal is popular enough to be put in toddlers' books it's an ABC animal to me.
The Zookeeper pack could be tweaked a bit, maybe a secretary bird or a crane for the pigeon, and the langur for something else. Not dissing the animals, but Frontier adding two primates AND two birds in one pack? Outrageous!!!
More like less likely to be your average Joe's favorite animal
They will give it to us for free. That way you don't even pay for it, Mr. Hyrax!
Who knows. We did get 2 rodents 1 pack and 2 birds another. Jus' sayin'
My forecasting indicates 2 primates but no birds, though it's naturally subject to be wrong.
Just like how you wanted all dictionary animals to be real so your way of doing it is African Spurred Tortoise as WTE
"want" and "predict" are very different verbs. If I said what I wanted, the outlook would be very different.
Oh forgot we did get the little penguin alongside the kiwi, always forget one of the animals for each pack
Watch it be the 3 we already know and the rest are all birds
Is national zookeeper day not in the third week of July though? I saw a bunch of zoos post about it in that time. Or was a week not enough and they need an extra day lol?
That was National Zookeeper Week, International Zookeeper Day is on Friday.