New 25 Essential Exhibit Animals Meta-Wishlist

Herptiles, creepy crawlies, and other such critters are an important component of real world zoos, which have unfortunately gotten the short end of the stick in-game. It's been quite a while since we've had an exhibit meta-wishlist or a new species officially added to the game. While Frontier has stopped providing exhibit animals in DLC packs, a meta-list can still help guide Frontier in choosing species for a hypothetical Planet Zoo 2 or an unlikely Exhibit Animal Pack.

Rules:
  1. You may pick up to 25 exhibit animals, can be less if you wish.
  2. Species should be in the spirit of those already in the game. So mammals and aquatic herptiles are allowed, while full-on flying birds or conventional aquarium animals are not unless we get an official exhibit animal from those groups.
  3. No extinct or fantasy species as always.
  4. Both walkthrough and classic exhibit animals are allowed.
  5. If you would like, you may optionally specify one animal as your mascot for an Exhibit Animal Pack.

This list is a temporary example and some species may be replaced before tallying.
  1. Australian Walking Stick
  2. Ball Python
  3. Black Mamba
  4. Blue Poison Dart Frog
  5. California Kingsnake
  6. Central Bearded Dragon
  7. Chinese Softshell Turtle
  8. Common Vampire Bat
  9. Crested Gecko
  10. Emerald Tree Boa
  11. Eyelash Pitviper - any species
  12. Frill-Necked Lizard
  13. Giant African Millipede
  14. Green Anaconda
  15. Japanese Giant Salamander
  16. Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle
  17. King Cobra (mascot) - any species
  18. Lake Titicaca Frog
  19. Leopard Gecko
  20. Madagascar Tomato Frog
  21. Orchid Mantis
  22. Panther Chameleon
  23. Plumed Basilisk
  24. Red-Eared Slider
  25. Reticulated Python

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  1. Black Mamba
  2. Emerald Tree Boa
  3. Spitting Cobra
  4. Indian Cobra
  5. Panther Chameleon
  6. Jackson's Chameleon
  7. Common Toad
  8. Cane Toad
  9. Malayan Horned Frog
  10. Hellbender
  11. Coral snake
  12. Mangrove Snake
  13. Leopard Gecko
  14. Painted Turtle
  15. Hamster
  16. Seahorse
  17. Red-bellied Piranha
  18. Clownfish
And probably more for Habitat or could use a bigger Exhibit
  1. Japanese Giant Salamander
  2. Chinese Giant Salamander
  3. Green Anaconda
  4. King Cobra
  5. Reticulated Python
  6. Burmese Python
  7. African Rock Python
That makes 25.
 
  1. Giant Girdled Lizard (VU)
  2. San Francisco Garter Snake (EN)
  3. Thorny Devil (LC)
  4. Pig-nosed Turtle (EN)
  5. Panther Chameleon (LC)
  6. Tokay Gecko (LC)
  7. Emerald Tree Boa (LC)
  8. European Hamster (CR)
  9. Chinese Crocodile Lizard (EN)
  10. Gaboon Viper (VU)
  11. Naked Mole-rat (LC)
  12. Black and Rufous Elephant Shrew (LC)
  13. Numbat (EN)
  14. Amazon Milk Frog (LC)
  15. Starry Night Toad (CR)
  16. Emperor Spotted Newt (VU)
  17. Peacock Tarantula (CR)
  18. Antilles Pinktoe Tarantula
  19. Hercules Beetle
  20. Blue Coral Snake (LC)
  21. Atlantic Mudskipper (LC)

And probably more for Habitat or could use a bigger Exhibit
  1. Alligator Snapping Turtle (EN)
  2. Chinese Giant Salamander (CR)
  3. Blue Iguana (EN)
 
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  1. Pygmy marmoset
  2. Norway lemming
  3. Four-toad jerboa
  4. Common vampire bat
  5. Tuatara
  6. European leaf-toed gecko
  7. Panther chameleon
  8. Marine iguana
  9. Plumed basilisk
  10. Thorny devil
  11. Frilled lizard
  12. Reticulated python
  13. King cobra
  14. Black mamba
  15. Inland taipan
  16. Yellow-bellied sea snake
  17. Chinese softshell turtle
  18. Dyeing poison dart frog
  19. Red bellied piranha
  20. Northern pike
  21. Spotfin lionfish
  22. Clownfish
  23. Seahorse
  24. Southern black widow
  25. Tasmanian giant freshwater crayfish
Having to limit myself to 25 options is killing me, but in the end I removed the green anaconda, aligator snapping turtle and giant salamanders because I think they would either need habitats or bigger exhibits (especially if you need to fit several of them in the same tank) and others that were redundant.
 
1. King Cobra
2. Panther Chameleon
3. Leopard Gecko
4. Mangrove Snake
5. Thorny Devil
6. Black Mamba
7. Five lined skink
8. Frilled Lizard
9. Chinese Mantis
10. Milk Snake
11. Atlas Moth
12. Lunar Moth
13. Leaf Insect sp.
14. Draco lizard sp.
15. Hellbender
16. Olm
17. Tuatara
18. Weta
19. Emerald Tree Boa
20. Tokay Gecko
21. Alligator Snapping Turtle
22. Fire bellied Toad
23. Naked Mole Rat
24. Leafcutter Ants
25. Mudskipper sp.
 
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