more mixed habitats? maybe hippos and flamingos?

Zakimals

Zakimals
what do you mean? like animals that can live together, i think most herbivores will be able to live with each other, i don't see why not.
Maybe some carnivores too, in Bristol, England they have wolves and bears in one habitat because they occupy different niches
 

VetGirl330

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I'd said Frontier is not going to put many limitations on which animals can live together beyond the obvious predator-prey interactions. They did after all have an exhibit in the demo housing pronghorns (North American) and springbok (African) together quite happily.
 

dannydanbo

dannydanbo
There is a Zoopedia floating around somewhere that, if you click on an animal, it will tell you which animals can live in one big habitat. The largest so far (based on the 50 animals we know about) is the African group.

African Buffalo
African Elephant
Giant Tortoise
Ostrich
Warthog
Mandrill
Nile Monitor
Plains Zebra
Giraffe
Sable Antelope
Springbok
Wildebeest
Okapi

are the ones that can live in one African habitat according to Zoopedia.

So far, South America is all exhibit animals with the exception of the Tapir and Galapagos Tortoise. Two animals does not a glorious habitat make. I'm hoping many more animals will be released with the game to fill out the other continents with more to see.
 

Barje

Barje
in beta i had sable antelope+giraffe+Buffalo and zebra+springbok. I am interested with flamingos&hippos same with pronghorn&bison or zebra&wildebeest
 

MsRedNebula

MsRedNebula
Even if they are strictly not allowed in the same enclosure, it would still be possible to do something with null fences where there's a steep cliff face in the water that the hippos can't climb, and the flamingos (if we get them, I hope we do!) can't descend. It would look like they're in the same enclosure, but it's technically two separate ones.
 

bamber

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dannydanbo said:
There is a Zoopedia floating around somewhere that, if you click on an animal, it will tell you which animals can live in one big habitat. The largest so far (based on the 50 animals we know about) is the African group.

African Buffalo
African Elephant
Giant Tortoise
Ostrich
Warthog
Mandrill
Nile Monitor
Plains Zebra
Giraffe
Sable Antelope
Springbok
Wildebeest
Okapi

are the ones that can live in one African habitat according to Zoopedia.

So far, South America is all exhibit animals with the exception of the Tapir and Galapagos Tortoise. Two animals does not a glorious habitat make. I'm hoping many more animals will be released with the game to fill out the other continents with more to see.
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|I would argue that Zoopedia doesn't tell you which animals live together. the screen is actually labelled "interspecies enrichment" so its animals thatenrich each other that may be different to animals that can live together

now habitat requirement may stop animals living together but I ASSUME that if habitat requirement are met you can put two items together but I would mix meat eaters and bambi type together. Also you may fin they negitavely enrich each other as well a scary antelope may not like a flamboyant peafowl

But my point is the animal enrich each other in the zoopedia list it doesn't say they can live together I doubt cats and dogs enrich each other but they can live together
 

dannydanbo

dannydanbo
@bamber The Zoopedia I found tells you, if you click anywhere in one animals line, which other animals can live safely together. In the wild, elephants, zebras, giraffes, warthogs, some of the antelope family and others, can share a large habitat as all are from the same continent and biome.
 

Swjosdotschka

Swjosdotschka
nightcat said:
Enrichment is not so much about if the animals are best friends or even like each other.
It's more about stimulation and adding something positive to their live. That could be something as simple as watching and smelling another animal.
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Yep. Enrichment isn't actually comfort and playtime, but more a symbioses. Most of the time it's kind of inherit by the species. Zebras and Wilderbeest for example eat the same type of gras, just different part of it. So they travel together in one big herd, which makes it easier to survive as more animals in the herd hear animals earlier. When kept together in the zoo, these animals are calmer, since it's how they live in the wild.

Cats and dogs can be great together, but if they feel better together depends on the individums and not on the species.

However, some Zoos work with animals in one habitat, that are not really found together in the wild. An example are Otters and Orangutans in Hagenbeck, a zoo in hamburg. Both species interact with each other, which helps fight boredom. Plus, Orangs are messy eaters and won't always eat their food from the ground. The otters kind of clean up after the apes. ^^ I guess Planet Zoo will also support these kinds of shared habitat, as the example peafowl and indian elephant shows. However, if species do or don't get along has to be programmed. So I assume if Zoopedia doesn't explicit say so, animals can't live together.
 

AlexVonHumbug

AlexVonHumbug
just to clarify, it was aleady implemented in the beta, that certain animal societies not only could be placed in the same enclosure, but also enrich each other. so its a feature already. I thought everybody knews this. ^^. In the beta the enrichable groups were already:
1) AfriEle/Zebra/Giraffe/AfriBuff/Springb/Wartho/Antel/Ostri;
2) IndiEle/Rhino/Peafowl;
3) AfriEle/Gemsbok
 
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Cynogale bennettii II

Cynogale bennettii II
I hope there is enough freedom in Planet Zoo to create some of the more unorthodox mixed exhibits that exist in real zoos. Lots of zoos mix brown bears with grey wolves, one place in America has mixed wolves with American bison and cheetahs have been mixed with a number of animals including both white and black rhinoceroses, giraffes, zebra and Galapagos tortoises.

I'm just hoping that certain animals won't just automatically kill each other and there will be some variance in how animals respond to each other (possibly age-related - animals may mix well as adults but if young are born to either species they could become aggressive).

The mixes I mentioned above are all included (many with pictures) in the links below:
Mixed-enclosures with bears: http://zoorope.hu/en-mixed-exhibit-ursidae/
Mixed-enclosures with cats and hyaenas: http://zoorope.hu/en-mixed-exhibit-felidae-hyaenidae/
Mixed-enclosures with dogs: http://zoorope.hu/en-mixed-exhibit-canidae/
The other carnivore groups (red pandas, seals and sea lions, civets, mongooses and mustelids) all also have pages on the link here: http://zoorope.hu/tarsaskifutok---mixed-species-exhibits/
 

Sirithiliel

Sirithiliel
i've always been uneasy about zoos mixing carnivore species that are rivals in the wild. While they might not fight, i can't imagine it's a enriching experience, but rather a stressful one

if anything, i think if they don't outright fight, it should lower their overall welfare due to the stress of a rival predator in the same exhibit. So that it's possible, but you have to deal with the negative side too

i know in some of those zoos, wolves have been killed by their bear habitat companions
 

nightcat

nightcat
As far as I have seen, it looks like carnivores will just kill all other animals.
I'm a bit disappointed about it, althought I wouldn't mind them excluding risky combinations like cheetah/zebra or bear/wolf.

Especially carnivores tend to get bored in zoos and profit a lot from enrichment. Mixed habitats are great for them, as long as it is safe for all animals involved.

@Swjosdotschka Zoopedia just tells you which animals get an enrichment bonus if they are combined. You can combine also a lot of the other animals. If they are not carnivores, they will be fine.
 
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