Has anyone ever acknowledged the weird naming situation with the North Sulawesi Babirusa?

Baboolian

Baboolian
Ever since SE Asia pack came out its annoyed me how even though they themselves referred to the animal several times by its proper name AND its proper scientific name is used in the zoopedia, the name for the animal in game is simply "Babirusa". I guess they forgot that the genus was split like 19 years ago. I just find it weird for a game about the importance of conservation and how cool animals are etc that they'd misname an entire species like that. I know the same can be said for the dhole too but honestly that's not really a problem since the Ussuri Dhole is just a population of Dhole while this is an entire species.


and yes I know this exact statement has probably been said like 5,000 times lol I just wanted to get it off my chest.

Edit: I was not expecting this response from all you guys! tysm :)
 
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sympatrick

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Baboolian said:
Ever since SE Asia pack came out its annoyed me how even though they themselves referred to the animal several times by its proper name AND its proper scientific name is used in the zoopedia, the name for the animal in game is simply "Babirusa". I guess they forgot that the genus was split like 19 years ago. I just find it weird for a game about the importance of conservation and how cool animals are etc that they'd misname an entire species like that. I know the same can be said for the dhole too but honestly that's not really a problem since the Ussuri Dhole is just a population of Dhole while this is an entire species.


and yes I know this exact statement has probably been said like 5,000 times lol I just wanted to get it off my chest.
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Currently there are only two animals in the game with full species status suffering from this kind of discrimination. One of them is the North Sulawesi babirusa and the other is the African bush elephant. I hope both of them get addressed asap.
 

-LUCA-

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This needs to be fixed. It's like the babirusa and elephant are using the naming method of another game. It is so inconsistent with the rest of the roster. From "Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey" to this is pretty strange. I mean the capuchin is its own species too, so it makes sense for it to have the full name, but it's weird for the babirusa and savannah/bush elephant. What's weirder is the word monkey isn't even necessary in the name of the capuchin. Capuchin already means monkey. It's like saying "Japanese macaque monkey". They need to remove "monkey" from the capuchin and add full names to the North Sulawesi babirusa and African bush elephant.
 

DrBurrito

DrBurrito
deinonychus110 said:
Would you also want to specify the dhole subspecies, its the Ussuri dhole since most other animals are specified except for the bongo
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The dhole in the game is actually specified as the Ussuri dhole (Cuon alpinus alpinus), but species in the game that are represented by only one member (e.g. American bison, African buffalo, koala, diamondback terrapin) use species names instead subspecific names, but you can still see the full names in the Zoopedia. The game uses common names for subspecies only when a species is represented by multiple subspecies/subpopulations in the game (e.g. the two tigers and brown bears).

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Edit: One exception seems to be the West African lion, which is why I think it is best renamed as lion, with the specification "West African" only displaying in the Zoopedia description section like other species with subspecific distinction that are represented with only one member (e.g. African buffalo, American bison, koala, diamondback terrapin). This change would also be in-line with its distribution map, which includes every lion population, including the Indian subpopulation.

Edit 2: This also applies to the great apes and Formosan black bear. So I guess it is a matter of choice when it comes to singular representation of species. However, the other point still stands: Some species represented by one subspecies/subpopulation in the game may use generic common names (e.g. buffalo, bison, koala and terrapin) but will have subspecies representation in their Zoopedia description and scientific names; therefore naming of the dhole is consistent.
 
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Francesca Falcini said:
Hey all!
Just wanted you to know that the developers are aware of this problem, and it's being looked into!
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Thank you! Can you also please look into the redundancy in the name of the capuchin? For the short colloquial version of filters "capuchin monkey" is fine, but the long full version of the name should end with capuchin: "Colombian White-Faced Capuchin", instead of monkey. Saying "Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey" is no different than saying "Japanese Macaque Monkey". It is basically the animal with the longest name, but the redundant or repeat word "monkey" is not helping.

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Firestar97

Firestar97
Francesca Falcini said:
Hey all!
Just wanted you to know that the developers are aware of this problem, and it's being looked into!
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There's also the Problem with the Colombian white faced Capuchin Monkey (at least in the German Version) that its Enrichment Filter is just named Capuchin Monkey which can make it hard to find Enrichment for them.
Also there's still that Face Bug happening with them. Wouldn't be that bad if it would only happen rarely but it happens often when they sit
 

yoav_r

yoav_r
Baboolian said:
Ever since SE Asia pack came out its annoyed me how even though they themselves referred to the animal several times by its proper name AND its proper scientific name is used in the zoopedia, the name for the animal in game is simply "Babirusa". I guess they forgot that the genus was split like 19 years ago. I just find it weird for a game about the importance of conservation and how cool animals are etc that they'd misname an entire species like that. I know the same can be said for the dhole too but honestly that's not really a problem since the Ussuri Dhole is just a population of Dhole while this is an entire species.


and yes I know this exact statement has probably been said like 5,000 times lol I just wanted to get it off my chest.
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I'd also like for the formosan black bear to be generalized to asiatic black bear. The specificity is weird.
 

sympatrick

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yoav_r said:
I'd also like for the formosan black bear to be generalized to asiatic black bear. The specificity is weird.
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Urufu1997 said:
There's also the Problem with the Colombian white faced Capuchin Monkey (at least in the German Version) that its Enrichment Filter is just named Capuchin Monkey which can make it hard to find Enrichment for them.
Also there's still that Face Bug happening with them. Wouldn't be that bad if it would only happen rarely but it happens often when they sit
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I think it's fine as is, just a design choice. I would be fine with either. The others are actual accuracy related issues.
 
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