I wondered what animals that are in most zoos are still missing from the game. I found that zooinstitutes has a list of the most common zoo animals, so I thought I'd suggest a pack idea to bring some of the missing ones into the game.
- Brown-nosed coati
- Mandarin duck
- East African crowned crane
- African spurred tortoise
- Inland bearded lizard
Directly taking
this list and removing flying birds and animals already in the game, you'd get:
African spurred tortoise
Mandarin duck
Black swan
Golden pheasant
Silver pheasant
Helmeted guineafowl
White stork
Red-eared slider (exhibit)
Literally six birds and two chelonians, which should tell you something about PZ's representation problem. If you combine bird "slots" to only have one ground fowl, one waterfowl, and one wading bird, and also remove the slider (which is just as often found in outdoor ponds as in tanks, if not more) you'd get something like:
African spurred tortoise
Mandarin duck
Golden pheasant
White stork
Patagonian mara
Cotton-top tamarin
South American coati
Central bearded dragon (exhibit)
Which is a much more reasonable list, but from Frontier's perspective would still lack a star animal that would appeal to people other than core zoo nerds. Note, again, that the list consists almost entirely of birds and South American mammals.
