If you could choose a single reptile, which one would be it?

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

We allready have this thread for birds, i like it and wanna hear about your reptile choices too.
My personal pick is the crocodile or papua monitor, a beautifull aboreal monitor from neuginea.
The main reasons are that an aboreal monitor from oceania would check multiple boxes and be quite unique, + the zoo in my hometown has one, the charismatic "Urmel"
I love Urmel, hes the best, about as old as me and i want to have his species in my zoo too

 

[paul78]

Reticulated Python with a green anaconda being a close second. It would be great to get the introduction of bigger exhibits like the ones featured above.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

wow especally the middle picture is amazing and impressive. such a beuatifull creature

 

[FoxyDee]

Emerald Tree Boa. I know it would be an exhibit animal, but I really like them. We need some more colours in our animal roster! (Please also bring us American Flamingos Frontier )

 

[Chuditch]

For me, it's gotta be the Perentie. They're such a spectacular lizard and I'd really love an Australian varanid in the game.

 

[ElectricMonk]

I should choose my study species, but it’s visually pretty boring and small. For a habitat animal, the coolest is marine iguana but it’s not really a zoo animal whereas alligator is pretty ubiquitous in US zoos. For exhibit it’s hard to go past frilled lizard but I thin I’d probably go leopard chameleon.

 

[yoav_r]

Nile Crocodile. They are very different from the salties and all my zoos feel like they are missing somethijg without it.

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

While I would love to see the iguanas be made into actual habitat animals I don't expect such a change would happen. In terms of actual new species for the game, rather than a repurposed exhibit animal, the American alligator is probably my top choice. Would love to be able to make an enclosure like the one below at Le Pal in France - a more temperate-tolerant reptile would be brilliant. It would also be important for them to be more tolerant of company than the current crocodilian species - the Le Pal enclosure has over twenty alligators in it and I'm sure there are enclosures elsewhere (particularly those crocodilian parks in the southern USA) with even more.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6uLYd2pdko

 

[macronecu]

American alligator.

 

[DarthQuell]

A local skink we have in Texas: the five-lined skink. Not huge, but the colors:

Full grown

Juvenile



Otherwise, my honorable mentions;

1. Panther chameleon
2. Emerald tree boa

 

[Orque41]

For me, I chose the Green Python. The first time I saw a Green Python was in a pet store and since I saw it I love them. In second position this is the Sea Cobra

 

[NZFanatic]

Gotta be the tuatara. They are the last members of their own family, not lizards. They're endemic to New Zealand. They would be an exhibit animal, but belonging to their own family of reptiles would make them super unique compared to others.

 

[nutrit]

The iconic Frilled lizard

 

[Firestar97]

Even though those Choices are all more awesome and we already have so many smaller Snakes, it might be interesting to see the Yellow-bellied sea snake in the Game (with yellow Color Mutation and a new Marine Exhibit Type that is completely filled with Saltwater)
Edit: OK, this Suggestion was a Fail. They seem to never live long in Captivity. But maybe we could get another kind of Sea Snake if this one is too unrealistic

 

[ElectricMonk]

Gotta be the tuatara. They are the last members of their own family, not lizards. They're endemic to New Zealand. They would be an exhibit animal, but belonging to their own family of reptiles would make them super unique compared to others.

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Dammit… I should’ve gone with that.

 

[Aotearoa]

Tuatara or American alligator for me.

 

[SanRazo618]

Any Sea Turtle, Tuatara, Marine Iguana, Snapping Turtle, Spurred Tortoise, and Alligator are my top wants for reptiles rn

 

[phraps]

I'll second the retic and green tree pythons above, they would be great.

But if I had to choose one reptile, probably the radiated tortoise. We don't have enough exhibit turtles; I think the diamondback terrapin is the only one? Plus more desert species is always welcome.

 

[MrHappy]

Royal Python I think! Not the largest of snakes but amazing nonetheless. I'd have these in the game as I have a real one at home.