Multiple habitat viewpoints- do guests even use them?

[Nekno]

For a while I've wondered if guests that see an animal from a poor spot try to go to another viewing spot to see that animal better, like I would in a zoo, or do they just check the animal off their "want to see" list and just keep going, forever having that "you can't even tell it's a XYZ from here" for the rest of their visit. Does anyone know??

 

[Indoraptor27]

It always feels like they will watch the animals from the first spot they encounter, even if the view is terrible. It's a bit unfortunate, because if you make several viewpoints guests will visit the nearest one, meaning if the animals are near a different one, they will complain.

 

[Dinocanid]

I don't think guests will try multiple viewspots on an enclosure to see if the animal is at one of them. They just go to the first one they walk into and get mad or happy based on if the animal just so happens to be there.

However, I did notice that the guest standing positions can change slightly based on where an animal in relation to a viewpoint. IE: if an animal is to the left of a viewing area then the guests will gravitate towards the left

 

[Cocolori]

I've followed guests and they do move if their first view isn't great. They do seem to try to follow the animals BUT i think it might depend on the distance to another viewpoint - they won't go all the way round

 

[Jileha]

I follow guests arround sometimes. They do “explore” habitats at different points and when they find something worth looking at, they stay. I have also seen guest thoughts on the same habitat, first an orange “meh” and then a green super happy one. This might be because an animal moved to where they are standing, but I think different viewing spots are more likely.

 

[NZFanatic]

I've always noticed that guests gravitate to the 'closest' view of the animal even if it isn't the 'best' view. As an example I had guests trying to view hippos on land from an underwater viewing window, simply because the hippo was closer to the underwater viewing window than it was to the raised viewing platform at the other side of the habitat.

 

[craftymutt]

I actually had guests standing in a restaurant trying to look at a tortoise habitat 10m away through the window, while there was a path directly in front of them by the restaurant right up against the 1m high habitat boarder. Didn't keep track if they tried to get closer, but it was quite funny to see!

 

[Cocolori]

From what I've seen when they explore the habitat for a better view it is based on proximity of the animal not the 'best' view hence why they often don't use obvious viewing points.