Influences from Zoos

ajmcspursfan

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With only a few days before the game launches and the amount of options we will have I have been thinking about current zoo exhibits I like and maybe trying to recreate them in-game at some point!

I would love to attempt recreating 'Edge Of Africa' at Colchester Zoo or The Elephant exhibit at Whipsnade.

Do others have possible exhibits they would try to recreate?

Apologies if this is the wrong place!
 

Serpentis Ictis

Serpentis Ictis
I love the idea of creating the lake and boat ride from Longleat, a couple of sea lions, hippos, Gorilla Island.... train runs along the bank.

Not sure I could create Longleat House though, maybe the maze!
 

Moonfox

Moonfox
So many!! I have a whole Pinterest board and three albums in my phone filled with inspo pics. I want to take the best I’ve seen and combine them, so I’ve been redrawing them in a sketchbook and my whiteboard.

Valencia Bioparc has some great enclosure designs that I want to use for some African species. I’m going to build back of house areas inspired by the zoos I’ve worked at. I’d love to use Taronga Zoo’s marine precinct designs if we ever get penguins and sea lions, and their Asian Precinct was amazing when it was brand new.

Melbourne Zoo and Taronga both have some really cool guest areas themed like the marketplaces of Southeast Asia, so I’d love to make my own in game.
 
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Greekgods

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Not really an exhibit in real life, but I’m thinking of having a building inspired on the royal greenhouse of laeken and incorporate exhibits for the tortoises, peafowls and ring tailed lemur in it. Thought maybe I’ll drop the lemurs if I can’t find a good place for them. Also possibly a castle nearby to have either my staff facilities in or shops. Or maybe both if I can. I also need to figure out if I can add the train station to it.
 

markun

markun
It’s hard in some ways to completely replicate a real zoo due to the (possible? probable?) lack of aviaries and mesh covered enclosures and also smaller animals.

I get inspired by bits and pieces of all kinds of zoos but Dublin Zoo seems relatively doable as it’s focussed mainly on mammals in open enclosures. Perth Zoo (minus the Australian bit which I guess could be ‘under construction’) is another one and Aalborg Zoo has potential too.
 

ajmcspursfan

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I'm loving hearing all the possibilities that we can get from actual zoos. If people want some inspiration then I recommend a website called 'zoochat' it has loads of user taken photos from zoos all over the world
 

Snufkin

Snufkin
I've been watching some videos on YouTube of real life zoo tours. In The Loop has quite a few which have both great animal shots and some evaluation of the enclosures which I like. I don't think it would really be fun for me personally to recreate whole exhibits faithfully but I do have a few notepad pages full of ideas for my PZ zoos. For example, I liked the way Miami Zoo has a lot of ways for guests to "enter" enclosures in little perspex tunnels and so on. I would like to create a guest tunnel through an exhibit using the glass pieces as a ceiling so that the animals can walk across it.
 
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