Yes, definitely! I was planning on having a group of maybe 3 or 4 adult alligators in an exhibit. That’s how they’re often seen in zoos, at least the ones I’ve seen. Oh well, it’s not the end of the world, but I’m sure is an easy tweak.
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To my knowledge, gators are solitary and territorial at norm. The only reason they are tolerant to one another is the food abundance and their sizes being not too intimidating. Should there be a big bull in the house, they'd scatter. But then again, having said that, crocs are indeed more aggro than gators.
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This is such a great suggestion and would align really well with some of the changes they've recently implemented in v1.7 (i.e., the kerbs and barriers).
Seeing as Frontier isn't afraid to include extremely thin and small items as we've seen from the Birch pack, I would love to see this trend of broken items go towards the other broken trees as well. In addition to this, I'd absolutely love some "single" versions of the plants we have ingame, like a single reed or cattail, or a single flower. It'd be amazing in particular for more detailed builds.
Also Tegidcam Hotkeys please <3
Also Tegidcam Hotkeys please <3
In Busch Gardens they keep like 10 huge gators together in a decent enclosure. No hostility amongst them
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Just looked at it and man...You've proved me wrong. Another new input, thank you~!
As always a fantastic list bearcat!
I would like 1, 2 maybe 3 city backgrounds for the maps.
Here in Germany (e.g.) it is common to have zoos within a city. Rarely that which are outside.
Therefore, I would be very happy to have multiple versions of city backgrounds.
Hannover
Köln
Berlin
Maybe you can add that to the whole landscape backgrounds, I know some more would find this cool.
I would like 1, 2 maybe 3 city backgrounds for the maps.
Here in Germany (e.g.) it is common to have zoos within a city. Rarely that which are outside.
Therefore, I would be very happy to have multiple versions of city backgrounds.
Hannover
Köln
Berlin
Maybe you can add that to the whole landscape backgrounds, I know some more would find this cool.
The most important suggestion I would have is not on the list yet:
Multiple habitat gates! Especially important for large habitats. This will allow much greater flexibility in habitat creation and park design, keepers can much more efficiently access their assigned habitats, and animals can use the entire habitat instead of dwelling near the section of the gate because that's where all the food and food enrichment is because otherwise the keepers have to walk too far...
Multiple habitat gates! Especially important for large habitats. This will allow much greater flexibility in habitat creation and park design, keepers can much more efficiently access their assigned habitats, and animals can use the entire habitat instead of dwelling near the section of the gate because that's where all the food and food enrichment is because otherwise the keepers have to walk too far...
Yes, and to add to that, reset research in Franchise mode.
+1
Also, not really a suggestion @Bearcat9948 , but there is no link to visual representation of the space requirements for the koala. I assume you wanted to link the thread you made comparing the in-game requirements with realistic requirements.
I like to request a different Market Place for Sandbox mode, it's sandbox mode so give us some control. let us adjust the Animals we want, like if we want an Albino then give us that option, it we want an animal with certain stats let us adjust it. Someone made a perfect graphical image of how this could be achived but I cant find the topic right now.
Not disputing this at all- just a question: do you know the sexes? Often large groups of female animals (sometimes male-only groups too) can be kept together without issues (IRL & in-game), it’s only if the sexes are mixed that an issue arises. I’ve not checked the gators in game but lots of SW crocs can be kept together without any issues.
I worked at a zoo for years, and volunteered around quite a few (modern) zoos through the years. You can have all the research and balamced diet you want, but animals are lazy (just like us). You can't force them to exercise, and it would be unethical to put them on food foraging trips, from which they get most food in nature.
I agree obesity is a sign something is wrong, but animals being chubby applies to almost all animals in zoos in general.
They are all male.
They say they don’t breed anymore because there is no conservation need here in Florida so they just take in nuisance animals that become too used to humans. They actually have 14 gators! The bachelor sizes in PZ are still solitary however so I wish atleast maybe those would be rectified. However, I’m still pretty sure we have mixed gender population Florida zoos they probably don’t breed them though or their juvenilles or sub adults
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Going to disagree with a couple of things.
EDIT: on the other had, the koala, based on its distribution, is not A ‘Queensland koala’ it’s just a koala. The Queensland populations (debatably) aren’t even a subspecies. References in the zoopedia to ‘Queensland koala’ should be changed to just ‘Koala’.
The ‘Timber wolf’ does not represent the whole species - its range excludes especially cold and warm adapted populations. Rather, it represents the generic temperate/taiga ecomorph of the grey wolf. Whilst I agree Timber Wolf is wrong - I don’t see it as a big deal at all. (Also, ‘Grey wolf’ would also be wrong since the in-game model does not represent the whole species). I would hate if the range was reduced and it was made NA only…. That would mean that. To get a Eurasian wolf we’d need a new animal which, to all intents and purposes, would have the same appearance and requirements as the current wolf. People complained the Arctic wolf was a reskin - imagine if they did this!
Central America is better (IMO) with SA than NA - whilst it is geographically and geopolitically NA, Biologically, it has far more in common with SA. Since this is a zoo game, I think that’s more important as a designator.
EDIT: on the other had, the koala, based on its distribution, is not A ‘Queensland koala’ it’s just a koala. The Queensland populations (debatably) aren’t even a subspecies. References in the zoopedia to ‘Queensland koala’ should be changed to just ‘Koala’.
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For clouded leopard, one of my most anticipated animal, I'm still upset with the glitchy climbs and slow motion jumps. Hopefully it gets fixed too....
Null gates: would behave the same as regular gates, but invisible. How's that sound? And I'm sorry if I missed this but: different heights for staff gates
Another thing: should gators have the tropical tag?
Because they're found in the Everglades, which is like a tropical biome. Mangrove trees and brackish water (never been, always wanted too).
@SanRazo618, you are the gator expert. What do you think?
Because they're found in the Everglades, which is like a tropical biome. Mangrove trees and brackish water (never been, always wanted too).
@SanRazo618, you are the gator expert. What do you think?
Phew, ok. Here goes:
Would love to update this, can you provide any more specifics? Did not see any mention of this in the patch notes.
Will add these later today
This has been brought up many times, including by myself, I just am very skeptical if it's possible.
Will try and find AZA care manuals and see what I can get from that. I have used AZA and EAZA care manuals to try and cross check errors with things like group or habitat space requirements
I will add this later
There is a map background for a city zoo already, so if they just let us choose which we want to use, you could use that in any biome. It's one of the campaign zoos IIRC.
I really, really dislike using generic terms for animals, like "Gray wolf", when there are vast differences even just between the North American animals from each other. An Italian wolf and a Rocky Mountain wolf are vastly different, yet the game treats them as the same. I'm actually going to change it and recommend it be renamed as the Rocky Mountain wolf, and have Europe removed altogether.
I'll have to check the koala distribution map later to confirm. As far as the Central America North/South debate, Frontier has sort of fixed this error by including all Central American animals in the North America Zoopedia filter. So, I take this as them somewhat recognizing they were incorrect in lumping it with South America, and am going to continue to recommend this change.
The very lower tip of Florida is considered to be tropical climate but not tropical rainforest, from what I understand, but someone else can weigh in on this.