Of course the same can be said for any number of animals from Australia (and especially New Zealand).
Fact of the matter is, neither European or North American animals are exceedingly common outside of their home ranges, and when they are, it's usually a 'swap' (European wildlife appears in North American zoos, and North American wildlife appears in European zoos). Meanwhile the rest of us are shorted, and we don't even ask for all that much.
But that aint important for this thread, is it?
The thread is if north america and europe are close to being finished, which objectivly isnt true.
And while i agree that SA and oceania both got the short end of the stick abd need the most attention going forward, that doesnt make certain european and north american species less essential for the game.
Africa is great, even if fan favorites are missing, same for asia.
North america is quite good now with missing key species for great like the ABB, a bird, the NA porcupine and something for the south like a collared peccary.
Meanwhile europe is bordering finally having a decent representation with only one really essential species missing to cover the bases, south america just kind of sucks and oceania barely passed the line of being able to have a oceanian area that hasnt exactly the same animals as the next guy.
Of the 6 continents, we got a clear cut between those that do pretty good and those that struggle, so why does it so often boil down to europe and north america being blamed for the poor south american and oceanian rosters?
North america has struggled itself and finally became quite good with just a few animals that people agree on missing and europe has a history of for some reason being the black sheep of the continents and needing to be defended for any addition.
Thats just not fun and while i understand the frustration with the state of oceania and south america it annoys me to all end that people blame the two mainly temperate continents for it.
Be it that "they only exist in zoos there", which is like yeah but roughly half of all zoos on the planet are in europe, 309 zoos are in germany alone, thats more then in all of oceania.
Like yeah i get and agree that every zoos should get their local animals, but why is the fact that something is only common in europe a bad thing when thats half of all zoos?
Why do people have to defend their wants for more european and north american animals in a thread about exactly that?
I know that im just ranting by now and that this is obviously not just a reaction to that comment or mr nz, whose opinion o very much respect alot, but to this whole weird mindset that preveils in these forums that the fact that NA got a great coverage and europe a decent one is a reason to critic the game instead of praise.
Its like why?
Why are people so insisting that those two continents that make up a clear majority of all zoos on this planet are not deservant of having their fauna featured in the game?
Ofcourse i also wish for more sa and oceanian animals, but why is wishing for a wild boar as an essential for your local zoo controversial but not for the kiwi?
Why cant we just wish for both and leave people alone about literally just stating that they want animals common in their zoos, what a shocker.
Its like really, take it in.
Wild boar and kiwi are both the 3. Animal of their taxa, come primarly from an underrepresented continent, are both mostly kept in their native range and arnt that common outside of it, are both visually unique and are considerd essential for their local zoos.
Why is one controversial and the other isnt?
And why is it the one thats kept in over 363 zoos instead of the one kept in 12 +7 EAZA zoos outside its native range?
Im not hating on the kiwi, but pls somebody explain to me why its kiwi yay and wild boar controversial when the wild boar objectivly adds more to the game from an unbiased perspective.
It represents 3 continents instead of one island, is in more then 300 more zoos, actually allready has species to go along with in the game instead of being pretty much a one off and lacks nothing in uniqueness.
I really really hope that mr nz will get his kiwi and tuatara, if i was in charge of animal choice i would atleast try to sneak in a little blue penguin aswell, but i hope this example showed why all this anti europe + na talk is just so annoying to me.
Im all for discussion and critic of idears, but can we pls just get rid of this unnessecary bias and just not go "Ah another na/european animal! Are you happy now? Can we finally not have more na and europe animals? How dare they to include more na/europe animals?!" Every single time that one gets added to the game?
Its just so tiring literally having to defend every single addition to those continents and it can really kill the joy about the game.
Thanks you all for comming to my ted talk/rant, no hard feelings to any person, you are all great people with good opinions i just really needed to get this out of my system
