New 25 essential habitat animals META-WISHLIST
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Hmm... more like Australia than Oceania really...
Well, yeah, but I'm saying "Oceania" because I think a more encompassing pack is more likely than a second Australia Pack.
Yeah... I dunno... looking at the meta list and the options... sounds more like an Australia Pack 2 in everything but name...
You misunderstand me - I'm not talking about the list itself, but the fact that it's more likely that Frontier will make an "Oceania Pack" rather than an "Australia Pack 2".
Erm... yeah... I get that... but how different from an Australia Pack 2 would it actually be? I mean, among the most popular choices are Tasmanian Devil, Emu, Platypus, Wombat and Bennett's Wallaby... that's five Australian animals right there...
They don't only pull from the top of the list. If they approach the region again, which is already unlikely, it's a safe bet that they might touch on New Zealand as well.
Gosh I hope so, KIWIS PLEASE
Pshh, tasmanian devils and bennetts wallaby are not australian, but tasmanian, just saying
Pretty sure Tasmania counts as Australia... it's a state of Australia after all and located right off the coast...
But do political borders have anything to do with animal "borders"?
Or do you want to tell me that every animal and plant from new caledonia should be considerd french?
Tasmania as an island has a unique ecosystem and vastly different biomes to australia, so it should be considerd different, especally when australia is a landmass seperate from tasmania
Or do you want to tell me that every animal and plant from new caledonia should be considerd french?
Tasmania as an island has a unique ecosystem and vastly different biomes to australia, so it should be considerd different, especally when australia is a landmass seperate from tasmania
Not really - the main difference between Tasmania and the mainland is that some animals wiped out on the mainland survive(d) in Tassie (devils & tassie tigers) whilst some others aren’t in Tasmania due to it being too cold back in the last glacial maximum (~12,000 years ago) when it was connected to the mainland, or having been wiped out in tassie after Europeans arrived (e.g., emus) or before that by indigenous Australians. On the whole, there’s not much ecological difference between Tasmania (where I lived until a year ago) and the south eastern part of the mainland (where I grew up and live now). Tasmania is 100% a part of Australia. A better comparison the France vs New Caledonia is Europe vs Britain… the separation from the mainland for Britain is ~ 6500 years, for Tasmania its ~8000 years.
Tassie devils went extinct on mainland Australia less than 7000 years ago.
Are you going to tell me Japan, Sri Lanka and the islands of South East Asia aren't Asia? The United Kingdom isn't Europe? Madagascar isn't Africa?
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Madagascar isn’t a great example - it’s been separated from India (it’s parent continent) for about 88,000,000 years (compared to <10,000 years for each of the other islands, including Tasmania) and does form a very distinctive ecological/evolutionary region. It’s been separated from Africa for ~150,000,000 years.
Exactly. As I've maintained since 2019, the kiwi and tuatara together would be enough representation for New Zealand in this game IMO.
1. Tasmanian Devil
2. Emu
3. Short beaked echidna
4. Common wombat
5. Armadillo
6. Dromedary camel
7. Secretary bird
8. Perentie monitor
9. Australian Freshwater crocodile
10. Musk ox
11. Desert tortoise
12. Walrus
13. Asian small clawed otter
14. Dik-dik
15. Lar Gibbon
16. Kiwi bird
17. Maned wolf
18. Fossa
19. Two toed sloth
20. Goodfellows Tree kangaroo
2. Emu
3. Short beaked echidna
4. Common wombat
5. Armadillo
6. Dromedary camel
7. Secretary bird
8. Perentie monitor
9. Australian Freshwater crocodile
10. Musk ox
11. Desert tortoise
12. Walrus
13. Asian small clawed otter
14. Dik-dik
15. Lar Gibbon
16. Kiwi bird
17. Maned wolf
18. Fossa
19. Two toed sloth
20. Goodfellows Tree kangaroo
Following this thread from the beginning, but I had never submitted my wishlist
To contribute to make a more competitive list, I haven't chosen animals which are already in the top 15 or have less than 5 votes, and skipped exhibit animals (like giant salamander, as they have their own meta-wishlist topic):
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Red Deer
- Secretary Bird
- Red River Hog
- Walrus
- South American Coati
- Takin
- Iberian Lynx
- Shoebill
- Golden Lion Tamarin
- Coquerel’s Sifaka
- Gaur
- Saiga
- Collared Peccary
- Mute Swan
- Sea Otter
- Blackbuck
- Pallas's Cat
- Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby
- Reeve's Muntjac
All 10 added! We've reached 200 participants!
Wonderful! This calls for a celebratory Dromedary scenery item!
