Eurasia animals: requirements and thoughts

Hey everyone I’m sure you are all excited for our new dlc.
As always, I make these threads to talk about new animals for our dlc and what we can expect. Correct me if I’m wrong on any of these or share what you think their needs would be.
1. Wisents
Grassland, temperate, taiga
1-20. 1 male 19 females
Large sized habitat
Some foliage

2. Wolverines
Taiga, tundra
1-4
Small medium sized habitat
Lots of foliage

3. Wild boar
Taiga temperate
1-2
Medium sized habitat
Lots of foliage
Enrichment with wisents or fallow deer?

4. Saiga
Temperate
1-15
Large sized habitat
Some foliage
Enrichment bonus with P horses

5. Takin
Taiga
1-15 (not sure how their social structure works)
Medium sized habitat
Some foliage

6. Sloth bear
Temperate
1-2
Medium sized habitat
Lots of foliage

7. Mute swan
Temperate, tundra, aquatic
2-5
Small sized habitat
Some folaige
Guests can enter habitat

8. Herman’s tortoise
An animal I don’t know anything about
 
@Captain Callum are the wisent at HWP mixed with other species? Can't remember. This could give us an impression of what to expect.
  • Wisent
  • Red Deer
  • Przewalski Horse
We should expect interspecies enrichment with these at least, with Frontiers knowledge of the HWP, I will be disappointed if this isn't the case.
 
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Wolverines are solitary, it will be 1 male and 1 female.

I think wisent will be only temperate and taiga but not grasslands.

Wild boars can live in groups. 1 male several females. They also need grasslands biome.

I've seen wisent and boars in the same enclosure, so I hope they mutually enrich each other.
 
Sloth bear should 100% have grassland and tropical, more so than temperate even. Sloth bears don’t really live in the temperate forest belt as the Asiatic black bear takes over. But Planet Zoo’s temperate-tropical distinction in India is a little blurred so fair enough. Still, it will have both grassland and tropical.

Wild boar should also get grassland and tropical, for its range in India and Southeast Asia.
 
Wild boar should also get grassland and tropical, for its range in India and Southeast Asia.
Wild Boars are actually cool in that they live everywhere!
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Wisent is probably only temperate and taiga, not grassland. They are forest dwellers and have a different diet than American bison. Also lots of foliage tolerance, as they often live in dense forests.

Interspecies enrichment with red deer, wild boar, fallow deer, moose, przewalski horse.
 
Wisent is probably only temperate and taiga, not grassland. They are forest dwellers and have a different diet than American bison. Also lots of foliage tolerance, as they often live in dense forests.
While wisent can live in forests, all the most recent research I have read suggests they are essentially refugees in a forest environment - they live there because they were hunted out of grassland ecosystems. In proper closed-canopy forests like Bialowieza in Poland, the wisent only survive the winter because they are fed by humans whereas in more open and mixed habitats they can survive perfectly well by themselves.


So I would definitely include grassland as one of the three biomes for the wisent.
 
I would love to see the mute swan have enrichment with the greater flamingo. Swans and flamingos are kept together in plenty of zoos, and it's easy to find pictures of them coexisting in the wild on Google. I'm hoping this can be the start of the "all waterfowl can cohabitate" network.
 
While wisent can live in forests, all the most recent research I have read suggests they are essentially refugees in a forest environment - they live there because they were hunted out of grassland ecosystems. In proper closed-canopy forests like Bialowieza in Poland, the wisent only survive the winter because they are fed by humans whereas in more open and mixed habitats they can survive perfectly well by themselves.


So I would definitely include grassland as one of the three biomes for the wisent.
Thanks, very interesting!
 
Wolverine's going be solitary (so 1 male 1 female) as already pointed out, but will also most likely need a large habitat, not a medium one. One of the more unique things about them is the size of their ranges. So much so that even though the Wolverine population is not all that high in total number, they are still considered least concern simply because of the vastness of a single animal's range. It'll be interesting to see what biomes it gets, since there's been much discussion and polite disagreement about it. Tundra obviously, and I think Taiga is likely and even Temperate may be possible.
 
I think Wild Boar will also get Grassland and Tropical.


I think it is more likely for them to get a combination of Grassland and Desert just like the P. Horse.
Agree on grassland
Is there a native tropical population of wild boar or is it an invasive population?
Correct me if I’m wrong, doesn’t frontier only list animals in their native ranges rather then their invasive? Example the dromodary and red fox are not listed in Australia

That makes sense for the Saiga
 
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