New 25 essential habitat animals META-WISHLIST

1. Kiwi
2. Kakapo (worlds only flightless parrot)
3. Crowned Pigeon (spend a lot of time on the ground, so would work the same as peacocks & flamingos in game)
4. Tree Kangaroo (any at this point)
5. Long Beaked Echidna
6. Fiordland Crested Penguin
7. Tiger Quoll
8. Steamer duck
9. Little Penguin
10. Secretarybird (again would work similar to peacocks or flamingos given it is mostly terrestrial)
11. Przewalski's horse
12. Platypus
13. Tuatara
14. Caracal
15. Fishing Cat
16. Takin
17. Walrus
18. Fossa
19. Serval
20. Genet
21. Saiga antelope
22. Yellow-Throated Marten
23. Gerenuk
24. Addax
25. Maned wolf
 
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  1. Amur Leopard
  2. Sumatran Tiger
  3. Pallas Cat
  4. Capybara
  5. Northern Rockhopper Penguin
  6. Przewalski's Horse
  7. Scimitar-horned Oryx
  8. Crested Porcupine
  9. Asian Small-clawed Otter
  10. Serval
  11. Fishing Cat
  12. Common Wombat
  13. Goodfellow's Tree Kangaroo
  14. Platypus
  15. Short-beaked Echidna
  16. Maned Wolf
  17. Black Howler Monkey
  18. Emu
  19. Bush Dog
  20. Tasmanian Devil
  21. Wolverine
  22. Ocelot
  23. Siamang
  24. Grey Crowned Crane
  25. Fossa
 
1. Yellow-Throated Marten
2. Przewalski's Horse
3. Giant Armadillo
4. African Crested Porcupine
5. Barbary Macaque
6. Black Howler Monkey
7. Lar Gibbon
8. Guinea Baboon
9. Indri
10. Tasmanian Devil
11. Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
12. Amur Leopard
13. Visayan Warty Pig
14. Raccoon
15. Somali Wild Donkey
16. Red Fox
17. Gaur
18. Common Wombat
19. Blackbuck
20. Fossa
21. Caracal
22. Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pig
23. Markhor
24. Spectacled Bear
25. Capybara
 
After roughly half a year, and following the requests made by numerous forum users, I'm setting up this thread in order to start another 'Essential animals meta-wishlist' where I record users' animals wishlists and put them all together on a meta-wishlist. Given that we've gotten 3 DLCs since I started the previous thread; this time around I ask you all to please post a list of just 25 habitat animals.

The more people participating, the bigger the sample size will be so better conclusions can be drawn. I’m writting down every user who posts their list in order to avoid having repetitions. I intend to keep this updated as much as I can. Last update: 17th March, 2022

The spirit and basic rules of the thread will be similar to those of the first one. Which means:
  • For the sake of keeping the same wishlist structure, I ask you to post your 25 essential habitat animals that you’d like to see in the game. Lists with anything above 25 animals will be discarded.
  • Exhibit animals will be omitted from the main meta-wishlist. Exhibit animals include arthropods, amphibians, snakes, other small reptiles (< iguanas), small fish and mouse-size mammals.
  • Flying birds and bats usually housed in aviaries will be omitted from the main meta-wishlist. Flying aviary birds include birds of prey, parrots, Columbiformes (pigeons), Passeriformes (small birds), Charadriiformes (gulls) and so on. Mainly ground-dwelling or semi-aquatic birds (mainly Waterfowl, Galliformes, Ratites, Pelecaniformes, Cranes, Penguins, etc.) will be added to the list.
  • Extinct species will not be considered.
  • As a general rule of thumb, animal species is the preferred category for animal submissions. Subspecies from already in-game animals are also accepted. Subspecies from animals that are not in-game will automatically be allocated to the superior species category. Specific domestic animals breeds are also accepted.
  • To simplify data collection, those answers that include several species in one slot (eg.: 1. Sloth) will be automatically treated as a single animal and added to the most requested species inside that generic animal group (eg. in this case: Brown-Throated Three-Toed Sloth). This obviously leads to an underestimation of the total key requested animals.

1. Dama Gazelle
2. Arabian Sand Gazelle
3. Chinkara
4. Erlanger's Gazelle
5. Dorcas Gazelle
6. Mountain Gazelle
7. Rhim Gazelle
8. Speke's Gazelle
9. Goitered Gazelle
10. Tibetan Gazelle
11. Arabian Gazelle
12. Cuvier's Gazelle
13. Heuglin's Gazelle
14. Red-fronted Gazelle
15. Mongalla Gazelle
16. Red Gazelle
17. Grant's Gazelle
18. Soemmerring's Gazelle
19. Przewalski's Gazelle
20. Mongolian Gazelle
21. Oribi
22. Steenbok
23. Cape Grysbok
24. Sharpe's Grysbok
25. Beira

Here is the META-WISHLIST:
RankAnimalVotes% people voting for this animal
1​
Capybara
257​
67.10​
2​
Leopard (Amur: 113; African: 52; Persian: 6; Indian: 4; Sri Lankan: 2; Arabian: 1; indifferent: 37)
215​
56.14​
3​
Przewalski's Horse
174​
45.43​
4​
Tasmanian Devil
173​
45.17​
5​
Maned Wolf
158​
41.25​
6​
African Crested Porcupine
153​
39.95​
7​
Lar Gibbon
145​
37.86​
8​
Emu
136​
35.51​
9​
Platypus
129​
33.68​
10​
Red River Hog
118​
30.81​
11​
Wolverine
115​
30.03​
12​
Common Wombat
112​
29.24​
Fossa
112​
29.24​
14​
Secretary Bird
110​
28.72​
15​
Asian Small-clawed Otter
105​
27.42​
Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
105​
27.42​
17​
Brown-Throated Three-Toed Sloth
103​
26.89​
Hamadryas Baboon
103​
26.89​
19​
Walrus
98​
25.59​
20​
Musk Ox
96​
25.07​
21​
South American Coati
93​
24.28​
22​
Black Howler Monkey
88​
22.98​
23​
Red Fox
86​
22.45​
24​
Red Deer
85​
22.19​
25​
Dromedary
79​
20.63​
West Indian Manatee
79​
20.63​
27​
Caracal
76​
19.84​
Takin
76​
19.84​
29​
Grey Crowned Crane
70​
18.28​
30​
Golden Lion Tamarin
69​
18.02​
31​
Serval
68​
17.75​
32​
North Island Brown Kiwi
67​
17.49​
Ocelot
67​
17.49​
34​
Markhor
66​
17.23​
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
66​
17.23​
36​
Shoebill
64​
16.71​
Spectacled Bear
64​
16.71​
38​
Bennett’s Wallaby
62​
16.19​
39​
Raccoon
62​
16.19​
40​
Honey Badger
57​
14.88​
Saiga
57​
14.88​
42​
Gelada Baboon
51​
13.32​
43​
Black Rhino
48​
12.53​
North American Black Bear
48​
12.53​
45​
Coquerel’s Sifaka
47​
12.27​
Nine-Banded Armadillo
47​
12.27​
47​
Short-Beaked Echidna
45​
11.75​
Siamang
45​
11.75​
Wild Boar
45​
11.75​
50​
Addax
44​
11.49​
51​
Blackbuck
43​
11.23​
Great White Pelican
43​
11.23​
Greater Rhea
43​
11.23​
Iberian Lynx
43​
11.23​
Mantled Guereza
43​
11.23​
56​
Greater Kudu
41​
10.70​
Patagonian Mara
41​
10.70​
Sea Otter
41​
10.70​
59​
Gaur
39​
10.18​
60​
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
38​
9.92​
Nile Crocodile
38​
9.92​
Striped Hyena
38​
9.92​
63​
Bush Dog
36​
9.40​
Collared Peccary
36​
9.40​
65​
Geoffroy’s Spider Monkey
33​
8.62​
Kirk's Dik-Dik
33​
8.62​
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
33​
8.62​
Mute Swan
33​
8.62​
69​
Sloth Bear
32​
8.36​
Somali Wild Donkey
32​
8.36​
71​
Alligator Snapping Turtle
31​
8.09​
Southern Tamandua
31​
8.09​
73​
Elk/Wapiti
30​
7.83​
74​
Guianan Squirrel Monkey
28​
7.31​
Helmeted Guineafowl
28​
7.31​
Pallas's Cat
28​
7.31​
Red Crowned Crane
28​
7.31​
78​
Pere David’s Deer
27​
7.05​
79​
Bighorn Sheep
26​
6.79​
80​
Fishing Cat
24​
6.27​
Gerenuk
24​
6.27​
Marabou Stork
24​
6.27​
83​
Raccoon Dog/Tanuki
23​
6.01​
Sumatran Rhino
23​
6.01​
85​
Aye-Aye
22​
5.74​
Green Sea Turtle
22​
5.74​
Little Blue Penguin
22​
5.74​
Mountain Goat
22​
5.74​
89​
Striped Skunk
21​
5.48​
Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby
21​
5.48​
91​
Chinese Giant Salamander
20​
5.22​
Giant Armadillo
20​
5.22​
Giant Eland
20​
5.22​
Rock Hyrax
20​
5.22​
Southern Ground Hornbill
20​
5.22​
Southern Rockhopper Penguin
20​
5.22​
97​
Aardwolf
19​
4.96​
White-nosed Coati
19​
4.96​
99​
African Civet
18​
4.70​
Eastern Wild Turkey
18​
4.70​
European Bison/Wisent
18​
4.70​
102​
Olive Baboon
17​
4.44​
103​
Bottlenose Dolphin
16​
4.18​
Chamois
16​
4.18​
Elephant Seal
16​
4.18​
Kinkajou
16​
4.18​
Nilgai
16​
4.18​
Quokka
16​
4.18​
109​
Kakapo
15​
3.92​
110​
Atlantic Puffin
14​
3.66​
De Brazza’s Monkey
14​
3.66​
Golden Snub Nosed Monkey
14​
3.66​
Japanese Serow
14​
3.66​
Leopard Seal
14​
3.66​
Lion Tailed Macaque
14​
3.66​
Wild Yak
14​
3.66​
117​
Blue Wildebeest
13​
3.39​
Harbor Seal
13​
3.39​
Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon
13​
3.39​
Reeve's Muntjac
13​
3.39​
Watusi Cattle
13​
3.39​
White-tailed Deer
13​
3.39​
123​
Arabian Oryx
12​
3.13​
Coyote
12​
3.13​
Impala
12​
3.13​
Mandarin Duck
12​
3.13​
North American River Otter
12​
3.13​
Nubian Ibex
12​
3.13​
Onager
12​
3.13​
Scarlet Ibis
12​
3.13​
131​
Asiatic Lion
11​
2.87​
Black Caiman
11​
2.87​
Cape Porcupine
11​
2.87​
Grevy's Zebra
11​
2.87​
Masai Giraffe
11​
2.87​
Nigerian Dwarf Goat
11​
2.87​
Numbat
11​
2.87​
Roseate Spoonbill
11​
2.87​
Sika Deer
11​
2.87​
Three-Banded Armadillo
11​
2.87​
141​
African Spurred Tortoise
10​
2.61​
Black Backed Jackal
10​
2.61​
Bobcat
10​
2.61​
Cotton-top Tamarin
10​
2.61​
European Hare
10​
2.61​
Indian Crested Porcupine
10​
2.61​
North American Porcupine
10​
2.61​
Tiger Quoll
10​
2.61​
149​
Alpine Marmot
9​
2.35​
Black-Capped Squirrel Monkey
9​
2.35​
Colombian/Venezuelan Red Howler Monkey
9​
2.35​
Emperor Tamarin
9​
2.35​
Eurasian Otter
9​
2.35​
François' Langur
9​
2.35​
Javan Banteng
9​
2.35​
Perentie
9​
2.35​
Red Wolf
9​
2.35​
Sumatran Tiger
9​
2.35​
Wild cat (Scottish: 4; European: 3; African 1; indifferent: 1)
9​
2.35​
160​
Amazon River Dolphin
8​
2.09​
Azara's Agouti
8​
2.09​
Bat-Eared Fox
8​
2.09​
Black Headed Spider Monkey
8​
2.09​
Brazilian Porcupine
8​
2.09​
Cownose Ray
8​
2.09​
Dama Gazelle
8​
2.09​
Golden Pheasant
8​
2.09​
Sand Cat
8​
2.09​
Sandhill Crane
8​
2.09​
Southern Pudu
8​
2.09​
Vicuña
8​
2.09​
White-Faced Saki
8​
2.09​
Yellow Throated Marten
8​
2.09​
174​
Australian Pelican
7​
1.83​
Bald Uakari
7​
1.83​
Beluga
7​
1.83​
Black Swan
7​
1.83​
Brushtail Possum
7​
1.83​
Coconut Crab
7​
1.83​
Emperor Penguin
7​
1.83​
Eurasian Red Squirrel
7​
1.83​
European Pine Marten
7​
1.83​
Marine Iguana
7​
1.83​
Red-Shanked Douc
7​
1.83​
Southern Hairy Nosed Wombat
7​
1.83​
Vervet Monkey
7​
1.83​
White Stork
7​
1.83​
Whooping Crane
7​
1.83​
189​
American Flamingo
6​
1.57​
Axis Deer
6​
1.57​
Barbary Macaque
6​
1.57​
Black-Footed Ferret
6​
1.57​
Blue-eyed Black Lemur
6​
1.57​
Brown Hyena
6​
1.57​
Dalmatian Pelican
6​
1.57​
Ethiopian Wolf
6​
1.57​
Eurasian Beaver
6​
1.57​
False Gharial/Tomistoma
6​
1.57​
Guanaco
6​
1.57​
Japanese Giant Salamander
6​
1.57​
Klipspringer
6​
1.57​
Lowland Paca
6​
1.57​
Saola
6​
1.57​
Slow Loris
6​
1.57​
Victorian Crowned Pigeon
6​
1.57​
Visayan Warty Pig
6​
1.57​
207​
Bontebok
5​
1.31​
Common Eland
5​
1.31​
Common Genet
5​
1.31​
Eastern Grey Kangaroo
5​
1.31​
Himalayan Monal
5​
1.31​
Indian Giant Squirrel
5​
1.31​
Lowland Anoa
5​
1.31​
Mallard
5​
1.31​
Manta Ray (any)
5​
1.31​
Miniature Donkey
5​
1.31​
Ocellated Turkey
5​
1.31​
Papua Monitor
5​
1.31​
Patas Monkey
5​
1.31​
Ring Tailed Mongoose
5​
1.31​
Ringtail
5​
1.31​
Siberian Musk Deer
5​
1.31​
Steller Sea Lion
5​
1.31​
Takahē
5​
1.31​
Vietnamese Pot-bellied Pig
5​
1.31​
Virginia Opossum
5​
1.31​
Waterbuck
5​
1.31​
Western Capercaillie
5​
1.31​
229​
Abyssinian Ground Hornbill
4​
1.04​
African Forest Buffalo
4​
1.04​
Alpaca
4​
1.04​
Aoudad
4​
1.04​
Blue-footed Booby
4​
1.04​
Chinese Alligator
4​
1.04​
Common Marmoset
4​
1.04​
Diana Monkey
4​
1.04​
European Rabbit
4​
1.04​
Gray Fox
4​
1.04​
Greater Bilby
4​
1.04​
Greater Roadrunner
4​
1.04​
Hawaiian Monk Seal
4​
1.04​
Highland Cattle
4​
1.04​
Indri Lemur
4​
1.04​
Lady Amherst's Pheasant
4​
1.04​
Orca
4​
1.04​
Rhinoceros Iguana
4​
1.04​
Sarus Crane
4​
1.04​
South African Springhare
4​
1.04​
Superb Lyrebird
4​
1.04​
Tiger Shark
4​
1.04​
251​
African Forest Elephant
3​
0.78​
Arapaima
3​
0.78​
Asian Water Monitor
3​
0.78​
Australian Freshwater Crocodile
3​
0.78​
Baudet du Poitou Donkey
3​
0.78​
Black Crested Gibbon
3​
0.78​
Blue Duiker
3​
0.78​
Borneo Elephant
3​
0.78​
Chinchilla (any)
3​
0.78​
Coypu
3​
0.78​
Darwin's Rhea
3​
0.78​
Demoiselle Crane
3​
0.78​
Dwarf Mongoose
3​
0.78​
East Javan Langur
3​
0.78​
Eurasian Brown Bear
3​
0.78​
European Mink
3​
0.78​
Giant Forest Hog
3​
0.78​
Greater Mouse-Deer
3​
0.78​
Greater Prairie Chicken
3​
0.78​
Grey Heron
3​
0.78​
Ground Pangolin
3​
0.78​
Hanuman Gray Langur
3​
0.78​
Hoffman's Two-Toed Sloth
3​
0.78​
Iberian Ibex
3​
0.78​
Javan Rhino
3​
0.78​
Leatherback Turtle
3​
0.78​
Margay
3​
0.78​
New Zealand Fur Seal
3​
0.78​
Northern Tamandua
3​
0.78​
Owston's Palm Civet
3​
0.78​
Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth
3​
0.78​
Red Hartebeest
3​
0.78​
Red-Faced Spider Monkey
3​
0.78​
Ribbon Seal
3​
0.78​
Roloway Monkey
3​
0.78​
Rusty Spotted Cat
3​
0.78​
Saddle Billed Stork
3​
0.78​
Silky Anteater
3​
0.78​
Silvery Gibbon
3​
0.78​
Silvery Lutung
3​
0.78​
Sitatunga
3​
0.78​
Six-banded Armadillo
3​
0.78​
Tayra
3​
0.78​
Trumpeter Swan
3​
0.78​
Tufted Deer
3​
0.78​
Water Buffalo
3​
0.78​
Zebu
3​
0.78​
298​
Adelie Penguin
2​
0.52​
American Pygmy Goat
2​
0.52​
Argentine Tegu
2​
0.52​
Baikal Seal
2​
0.52​
Banded Mongoose
2​
0.52​
Barasingha
2​
0.52​
Bar-Headed Goose
2​
0.52​
Black Crested Macaque
2​
0.52​
Black Grouse
2​
0.52​
Blacktip Reef Shark
2​
0.52​
Brown Fur Seal
2​
0.52​
Brown Howler Monkey
2​
0.52​
Brown Pelican
2​
0.52​
Bull Shark
2​
0.52​
Burrowing Owl
2​
0.52​
Canadian Lynx
2​
0.52​
Chacma Baboon
2​
0.52​
Common Crane
2​
0.52​
Common Pheasant
2​
0.52​
Crowned Lemur
2​
0.52​
Cuban Crocodile
2​
0.52​
Desert Tortoise
2​
0.52​
Dugong
2​
0.52​
Dutch Rabbit
2​
0.52​
Gentoo Penguin
2​
0.52​
Giant Pacific Octopus
2​
0.52​
Golden Jackal
2​
0.52​
Greater Bamboo Lemur
2​
0.52​
Guinea Baboon
2​
0.52​
Guinea Pig
2​
0.52​
Hampshire Pig
2​
0.52​
Harbor Porpoise
2​
0.52​
Hawaiian Goose
2​
0.52​
Himalayan Tahr
2​
0.52​
Jaguarundi
2​
0.52​
Java Mouse-Deer
2​
0.52​
Kodkod
2​
0.52​
Konik Horse
2​
0.52​
Lace Monitor
2​
0.52​
Lesser Bushbaby (any)
2​
0.52​
Long-Tailed Goral
2​
0.52​
Malayan Tiger
2​
0.52​
Marbled Polecat
2​
0.52​
Merino Sheep
2​
0.52​
Mexican Wolf
2​
0.52​
Mouflon
2​
0.52​
Mule Deer
2​
0.52​
Muscovy Duck
2​
0.52​
Northern Rockhopper Penguin
2​
0.52​
Northern-helmeted Curassow
2​
0.52​
Ocean Sunfish
2​
0.52​
Persian Fallow Deer
2​
0.52​
Red Forest Duiker
2​
0.52​
Red Junglefowl
2​
0.52​
Red Lechwe
2​
0.52​
Rhesus Macaque
2​
0.52​
Ringtail Possum
2​
0.52​
Roe Deer
2​
0.52​
Sable
2​
0.52​
South American Sea Lion
2​
0.52​
South American Tapir
2​
0.52​
Spotted-Necked Otter
2​
0.52​
Tibetan Antelope/Chiru
2​
0.52​
Tibetan Fox
2​
0.52​
Topi (Common Tsessebe)
2​
0.52​
Vaquita
2​
0.52​
Vulturine Guineafowl
2​
0.52​
Walia Ibex
2​
0.52​
Water Deer
2​
0.52​
Weasel (any)
2​
0.52​
Western Long-Beaked Echidna
2​
0.52​
Whale Shark
2​
0.52​
White-Bellied Spider Monkey
2​
0.52​
Wood Duck
2​
0.52​
Yellow Eyed Penguin
2​
0.52​
Yellow-Backed Duiker
2​
0.52​
Yellow-Cheeked Gibbon
2​
0.52​
Zebra Duiker
2​
0.52​
376​
Gray-Bellied Night Monkey
1​
0.26​
African Brush-tailed Porcupine
1​
0.26​
African Clawless Otter
1​
0.26​
African Dwarf Crocodile
1​
0.26​
African Pygmy Goose
1​
0.26​
African Softshell Turtle
1​
0.26​
Allen's Swamp Monkey
1​
0.26​
Alligator Gar
1​
0.26​
Amazonian Manatee
1​
0.26​
American Badger
1​
0.26​
American Mink
1​
0.26​
American White Pelican
1​
0.26​
Andean Flamingo
1​
0.26​
Andean Mountain Cat
1​
0.26​
Arabian Wolf
1​
0.26​
Arctic Hare
1​
0.26​
Arrau Turtle
1​
0.26​
Asian Giant Softshell Turtle
1​
0.26​
Asian Golden Cat
1​
0.26​
Asian Leopard Cat
1​
0.26​
Asian Palm Civet
1​
0.26​
Australian Lungfish
1​
0.26​
Australian Sea Lion
1​
0.26​
Back-Throated Monitor
1​
0.26​
Bactrian Deer
1​
0.26​
Banded Palm Civet
1​
0.26​
Bennett's Tree Kangaroo
1​
0.26​
Big Hairy Armadillo
1​
0.26​
Black Crested Mangabey
1​
0.26​
Black Crowned Crane
1​
0.26​
Black Heron
1​
0.26​
Black Lemur
1​
0.26​
Black Stork
1​
0.26​
Black-Footed Cat
1​
0.26​
Blue Shark
1​
0.26​
Bornean Bearded Pig
1​
0.26​
Brolga
1​
0.26​
Brown Spider Monkey
1​
0.26​
Bushbuck
1​
0.26​
Cabot’s Tragopan
1​
0.26​
Canada Goose
1​
0.26​
Chacoan Peccary
1​
0.26​
Chilean Flamingo
1​
0.26​
Chuckwalla (any)
1​
0.26​
Colugo (any)
1​
0.26​
Comb Duck
1​
0.26​
Common Brown Lemur
1​
0.26​
Congo Clawless Otter
1​
0.26​
Corsac Fox
1​
0.26​
Corsican Hare
1​
0.26​
Crab-eating Fox
1​
0.26​
Crab-eating Macaque
1​
0.26​
Crested Partridge
1​
0.26​
Crested Seriema
1​
0.26​
Crowned Sifaka
1​
0.26​
Culpeo
1​
0.26​
Darwin's Fox
1​
0.26​
Delacour's Langur
1​
0.26​
Diademed Sifaka
1​
0.26​
Domestic Goose
1​
0.26​
Domestic Turkey
1​
0.26​
Dusky Pademelon
1​
0.26​
Dwarf Rabbit
1​
0.26​
Eastern Quoll
1​
0.26​
Eld's Deer
1​
0.26​
Electric Eel (any)
1​
0.26​
European Polecat
1​
0.26​
Fat-tailed Dwarf Lemur
1​
0.26​
Ferret
1​
0.26​
Fiordland Penguin
1​
0.26​
Fisher
1​
0.26​
Flemish Giant Rabbit
1​
0.26​
Four-horned Antelope
1​
0.26​
Geoffroy's Cat
1​
0.26​
German Moorland Sheep
1​
0.26​
Giant Asian Pond Turtle
1​
0.26​
Giant Crab (any)
1​
0.26​
Giant Ibis
1​
0.26​
Giant Pangolin
1​
0.26​
Golden-Bellied Mangabey
1​
0.26​
Goliath Heron
1​
0.26​
Gray Mouse Lemur
1​
0.26​
Great Argus Pheasant
1​
0.26​
Great Blue Heron
1​
0.26​
Great Bustard
1​
0.26​
Great Egret
1​
0.26​
Great Hornbill
1​
0.26​
Greater Sage Grouse
1​
0.26​
Green Peafowl
1​
0.26​
Grizzled Giant Squirrel
1​
0.26​
Grizzled Tree Kangaroo
1​
0.26​
Grouper (any)
1​
0.26​
Guatemalan Black Howler Monkey
1​
0.26​
Hamerkop
1​
0.26​
Hamlyn's Monkey
1​
0.26​
Hammerhead Shark
1​
0.26​
Harp Seal
1​
0.26​
Hawksbill Sea Turtle
1​
0.26​
Heck Cattle
1​
0.26​
Hedgehog (any)
1​
0.26​
Holstein Frieisian Cattle
1​
0.26​
Hooded Seal
1​
0.26​
Horned Guan
1​
0.26​
Humboldt Penguin
1​
0.26​
Iberian Pig
1​
0.26​
Ili Pika
1​
0.26​
Indian Muntjac
1​
0.26​
Indian Narrow-Headed Shoftshell Turtle
1​
0.26​
Indian Runner Duck
1​
0.26​
Italian Grey Wolf
1​
0.26​
Jabiru Stork
1​
0.26​
Jackrabbit (any)
1​
0.26​
Jentink's Duiker
1​
0.26​
Kagu
1​
0.26​
Kiang
1​
0.26​
Kleinmann's tortoise
1​
0.26​
Kodiak Bear
1​
0.26​
Kori Bustard
1​
0.26​
Kunekune Pig
1​
0.26​
Large Bamboo Rat
1​
0.26​
Leopard Tortoise
1​
0.26​
Lesser Kudu
1​
0.26​
Little Spotted Kiwi
1​
0.26​
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
1​
0.26​
Longhorn Cattle
1​
0.26​
Macaroni Penguin
1​
0.26​
Malayan Civet
1​
0.26​
Malayan Porcupine
1​
0.26​
Mantled Howler Monkey
1​
0.26​
Marsh Deer
1​
0.26​
Masked Palm Civet
1​
0.26​
Merten's Water Monitor
1​
0.26​
Mexican Spider Monkey
1​
0.26​
Mongoose Lemur
1​
0.26​
Mountain Anoa
1​
0.26​
Mountain Gazelle
1​
0.26​
Mountain Hare
1​
0.26​
Nile Lechwe
1​
0.26​
Northern Bald Ibis
1​
0.26​
Northern Hairy Nosed Wombat
1​
0.26​
Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat
1​
0.26​
Northern White Rhino
1​
0.26​
Olinguito
1​
0.26​
Orinoco Agouti
1​
0.26​
Orinoco Crocodile
1​
0.26​
Orinoco Goose
1​
0.26​
Pacarana
1​
0.26​
Pacific Loon
1​
0.26​
Painted Terrapin
1​
0.26​
Palawan Peacock-Pheasant
1​
0.26​
Pale-throated Sloth
1​
0.26​
Pampas Cat
1​
0.26​
Parson's Chameleon
1​
0.26​
Philippine Crocodile
1​
0.26​
Pileated Gibbon
1​
0.26​
Pink-Backed Pelican
1​
0.26​
Pinta Island Tortoise
1​
0.26​
Plymouth Rock Chicken
1​
0.26​
Prehensive-Tailed Porcupine
1​
0.26​
Przewalski's Gazelle
1​
0.26​
Radiated Tortoise
1​
0.26​
Rakali
1​
0.26​
Red Grouse
1​
0.26​
Red-bellied Piranha
1​
0.26​
Red-Footed Tortoise
1​
0.26​
Red-Fronted Lemur
1​
0.26​
Reeve's Pheasant
1​
0.26​
Rothschild's Giraffe
1​
0.26​
Sambar Deer
1​
0.26​
Savannah Monitor
1​
0.26​
Screaming Hairy Armadillo
1​
0.26​
Shetland Sheep
1​
0.26​
Siberian Crane
1​
0.26​
Siberian Ibex
1​
0.26​
Side-Striped Jackal
1​
0.26​
Snowshoe Hare
1​
0.26​
Soemmerring's gazelle
1​
0.26​
Southwest African Lion
1​
0.26​
Spotted Cuscus
1​
0.26​
Steamer Duck (any)
1​
0.26​
Striped Polecat
1​
0.26​
Sulawesi Bear Cuscus
1​
0.26​
Sunda Pangolin
1​
0.26​
Swamp Wallaby
1​
0.26​
Swamp Wallaby
1​
0.26​
Swift Fox
1​
0.26​
Tammar Wallaby
1​
0.26​
Tapanuli Orangutan
1​
0.26​
Taruca
1​
0.26​
Temminck's Tragopan
1​
0.26​
Tibetan Blue Bear
1​
0.26​
Tibetan Macaque
1​
0.26​
Tufted Duck
1​
0.26​
Verreaux's Sifaka
1​
0.26​
Visayan Spotted Deer
1​
0.26​
West African Slender-snouted Crocodile
1​
0.26​
Western Finncattle
1​
0.26​
Western Woolly Lemur
1​
0.26​
Whale (any)
1​
0.26​
White Shark
1​
0.26​
White Tailed Mongoose
1​
0.26​
White-Faced Whistling Duck
1​
0.26​
White-Headed Lemur
1​
0.26​
White-Lipped Peccary
1​
0.26​
White-Naped Crane
1​
0.26​
Wolf's Mona Monkey
1​
0.26​
Wool Pig (Mangalica?)
1​
0.26​
Woolly Monkey (any)
1​
0.26​
Woolly Opossum (any)
1​
0.26​
Yellow Mongoose
1​
0.26​
...586Yellow-Bellied Marmot
1​
0.26​
RankAnimalVotes
1​
Caprid (not Musk ox)
261​
2​
Capybara
257​
3​
Small feline (not leopard nor lynx)
253​
4​
Equid
238​
5​
Piggys
219​
6​
Leopard (Amur: 79; African: 40; Persian: 4; Indian: 2; Sri Lankan: 2; indifferent: 25)
215​
7​
Big African Antelope (not gazelle, gerenuk nor duiker)
210​
8​
Gibbon
209​
9​
Porcupine
193​
10​
Baboon
175​
11​
Ratites
175​
12​
Wolverine/Badger
173​
13​
Tasmanian Devil
173​
14​
Otter
171​
15​
(Big) Deer
160​
16​
Maned Wolf
158​
17​
Bear
149​
18​
Sloth
147​
19​
Tree Kangaroo
140​
20​
Platypus
129​
21​
Crane
126​
22​
Wombat
120​
23​
Coati
112​
24​
Fossa
112​
25​
Secretary Bird
110​
26​
Fox
104​
27​
Howler monkey
101​
28​
Walrus
98​
29​
Camelid
97​
30​
Musk Ox
96​
31​
Galliformes
92​
32​
Tamarin & Marmoset
92​
33​
Wallaby
85​
34​
Armadillo
83​
35​
Manatee
80​
36​
Rhino
75​
37​
Pelican
60​
38​
Lynx
55​

As you can see, a total of 586 animals have been considered 'essential' by at least one forum user.

TL;DR: Post your 25 essential habitat animals wishlist here. I will record each wishlist and add it to the Meta-list. Aviary and exhibit animals won’t be taken into consideration.

#Important note: Everyone who has submitted an initial list with 20 animals is allowed to vote for 5 additional animals now!#

PS: Check darthquell's and Reptomin's new thread for Essential exhibit animals, Spiderhawk's thread for Essential aviary animals and yoav's thread for Essential fully aquatic animals!
1. Bush Dog
2. Any Takin
3. Bottlenosed Dolphin
4. Coyote
5. Fossa
6. Capybara
7. Amazon River Dolphin
8. Maned Wolf
9. Tasmanian Devil
10. Coati
11. Falanouc
12. Aardwolf
13. ANY SORT OF PETTING ZOO ANIMALS!!!
14. Pronghorn
15. Caracal
16. African Civet
17. Manatee
18. Asian Small Clawed Otter
19. Saiga
20. Pallas Cat
21. Tanuki
22. Japanese Serow
23. Tibetan Fox
24. Spotted Cuscus
25. Genet
 
1. Dromedary Camel
2. Black Rhino
3. Wolverine
4. Squirrel Monkey
5. Howler Monkey
6. White Cheeked Gibbon
7. Przewalski's Horse
8. Leopard (either African or Amur, idc)
9. Capybara
10. Marabou Stork
11. American Black Bear
12. Sifaka
13. Sitatunga
14. Takin
15. Tasmanian Devil
16. Small-Clawed Otter
17. Two-toed Sloth
18. Addra Gazelle
19. Perentie
20. Addax
21. Yellow-Backed Duiker
22. Rockhopper Penguin
23. Little Blue Penguin
24. Francois Langur
25. Colobus Monkey
 
1. capybara
2. Caribbean manatee
3. black rhino (hook lipped rhinoceros)
4. masai giraffe
5. North American raccoon
6. collared peccary
7. prezwalski horse
8. sitatunga
9. addax
10. roanantilope (any new oryx for that matter)
11. kordofan giraffe
12. mangrove crabs
13. grevy zebra
14. black crested mangabey
15. African river hog
16. Banteng
17. Bush dog
18. Marabou stork
19. jellyfish
20. baboon
21. alligator snapping turtle
22. Kirk’s Dikdik
23. African clawless otter
24. blesbok
25. any sloth species
 
The first few choices are admittedly biased:
  1. Chacoan peccary
  2. Hamadryas baboon
  3. Gray crowned crane
  4. Lar gibbon
  5. Southern ground hornbill
  6. Yellow-backed duiker
  7. Dromedary camel
  8. Highland cattle
  9. American pygmy goat
  10. Rocky Mountain elk
  11. Any leopard, preferrably an Amur leopard
  12. Capybara
  13. Tasmanian devil
  14. Przewalski's horse
  15. Striped hyena
  16. Coquerel’s sifaka
  17. Fossa
  18. Aye-aye
  19. Secretary bird
  20. Platypus
  21. Common wombat
  22. Muskox
  23. Lion-tailed macaque
  24. Black howler monkey
  25. Temminck's tragopan
 
Pleased to see that all of my top 10 are still in the over all top 20, and 13 of my updated top 20 are in the overall top 20. But wow those other 7 are.....all...over..the..place.
 
1. Przewalski Horse
2. Leopard (Any)
3. Blackbuck
4. Gaur
5.Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
6. Musk Ox
7. Saiga Antelope
8. Secretary Bird
9. Tasmanian Devil
10. Coati
11. Kudu
12. Eland
13. Nile Crocodile
14. Black Howler Monkey
15. Hamandryas Baboon
16. Colobus monkey
17. Gibbons (any)
18. Scimitar Horned Oryx
19. Addax
20. Wolverine
21. Crane (preferably African Crowned or Red Crowned, idc just make it colorful)
22. Caracal
23. Red River Hog
24. Sika Deer
25. Walrus
 
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hello coming in with my own meta list

1.Przewalski's Horse
2.Capybara
3.Platypus
4.Saiga (either)
5.Shoebill Stork
6.African Crested Porcupine
7.Maned Wolf
8.Fossa
9.Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
10.HoneyBadger
11.Somali Wild Donkey
12.Tanuki
13.Secretary Bird
14.Konik Horse
15.Kiang
16.Hoolock Gibbon (or any gibbon highest on list)
17.Japanese Red Crested Crane
18.Adelie Penguin
19.Chineese giant Salamander
20.striped hyena
21.Nilgai
22.Leopard Seal
23.Onager
24.Leopard (any)
25.Japanese Serow
 
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1. Bush Dog
2. Any Takin
3. Bottlenosed Dolphin
4. Coyote
5. Fossa
6. Capybara
7. Amazon River Dolphin
8. Maned Wolf
9. Tasmanian Devil
10. Coati
11. Falanouc
12. Aardwolf
13. ANY SORT OF PETTING ZOO ANIMALS!!!
14. Pronghorn
15. Caracal
16. African Civet
17. Manatee
18. Asian Small Clawed Otter
19. Saiga
20. Pallas Cat
21. Tanuki
22. Japanese Serow
23. Tibetan Fox
24. Spotted Cuscus
25. Genet
Pronghorn is already in PZ. Feel free to add a different animal.
 
Additional 5:
  1. Black-footed ferret
  2. Cloud rat
  3. Striped skunk
  4. Caracal
  5. Tamandua

1. Bush Dog
2. Any Takin
3. Bottlenosed Dolphin
4. Coyote
5. Fossa
6. Capybara
7. Amazon River Dolphin
8. Maned Wolf
9. Tasmanian Devil
10. Coati
11. Falanouc
12. Aardwolf
13. ANY SORT OF PETTING ZOO ANIMALS!!!
14. Pronghorn
15. Caracal
16. African Civet
17. Manatee
18. Asian Small Clawed Otter
19. Saiga
20. Pallas Cat
21. Tanuki
22. Japanese Serow
23. Tibetan Fox
24. Spotted Cuscus
25. Genet

1. Dromedary Camel
2. Black Rhino
3. Wolverine
4. Squirrel Monkey
5. Howler Monkey
6. White Cheeked Gibbon
7. Przewalski's Horse
8. Leopard (either African or Amur, idc)
9. Capybara
10. Marabou Stork
11. American Black Bear
12. Sifaka
13. Sitatunga
14. Takin
15. Tasmanian Devil
16. Small-Clawed Otter
17. Two-toed Sloth
18. Addra Gazelle
19. Perentie
20. Addax
21. Yellow-Backed Duiker
22. Rockhopper Penguin
23. Little Blue Penguin
24. Francois Langur
25. Colobus Monkey

1. capybara
2. Caribbean manatee
3. black rhino (hook lipped rhinoceros)
4. masai giraffe
5. North American raccoon
6. collared peccary
7. prezwalski horse
8. sitatunga
9. addax
10. roanantilope (any new oryx for that matter)
11. kordofan giraffe
12. mangrove crabs
13. grevy zebra
14. black crested mangabey
15. African river hog
16. Banteng
17. Bush dog
18. Marabou stork
19. jellyfish
20. baboon
21. alligator snapping turtle
22. Kirk’s Dikdik
23. African clawless otter
24. blesbok
25. any sloth species

The first few choices are admittedly biased:
  1. Chacoan peccary
  2. Hamadryas baboon
  3. Gray crowned crane
  4. Lar gibbon
  5. Southern ground hornbill
  6. Yellow-backed duiker
  7. Dromedary camel
  8. Highland cattle
  9. American pygmy goat
  10. Rocky Mountain elk
  11. Any leopard, preferrably an Amur leopard
  12. Capybara
  13. Tasmanian devil
  14. Przewalski's horse
  15. Striped hyena
  16. Coquerel’s sifaka
  17. Fossa
  18. Aye-aye
  19. Secretary bird
  20. Platypus
  21. Common wombat
  22. Muskox
  23. Lion-tailed macaque
  24. Black howler monkey
  25. Temminck's tragopan

1. Przewalski Horse
2. Leopard (Any)
3. Blackbuck
4. Gaur
5.Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
6. Musk Ox
7. Saiga Antelope
8. Secretary Bird
9. Tasmanian Devil
10. Coati
11. Kudu
12. Eland
13. Nile Crocodile
14. Black Howler Monkey
15. Hamandryas Baboon
16. Colobus monkey
17. Gibbons (any)
18. Scimitar Horned Oryx
19. Addax
20. Wolverine
21. Crane (preferably African Crowned or Red Crowned, idc just make it colorful)
22. Caracal
23. Red River Hog
24. Sika Deer
25. Walrus

hello coming in with my own meta list

1.Przewalski's Horse
2.Capybara
3.Platypus
4.Saiga (either)
5.Shoebill Stork
6.African Crested Porcupine
7.Maned Wolf
8.Fossa
9.Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo
10.HoneyBadger
11.Somali Wild Donkey
12.Tanuki
13.Secretary Bird
14.Konik Horse
15.Kiang
16.Hoolock Gibbon (or any gibbon highest on list)
17.Japanese Red Crested Crane
18.Adelie Penguin
19.Chineese giant Salamander
20.striped hyena
21.Nilgai
22.Leopard Seal
23.Onager
24.Leopard (any)
25.Japanese Serow

1. Striped Hyena
2. Sloth bear
3. Coati
4. Lion tailed macaque
5. Gibbon
6. Blackbuck
7. Przewalski Horse
8. Red River Hog
9. Pere David's deer
10. Black Howler Monkey
11. Spider monkey
12. Armadillo
13. Serval
14. Spectacled bear
15. Maned wolf
16. Mantled Guereza
17. Somali wild donkey
18. Gerenuk
19. Addax
20. Giant eland
21. Manatee
22. Takin
23. Shoebill
24. Scimitar oryx
25. NA porcupine
All added!
 
1. Gelada baboon
2. Ethiopian wolf
3. Indian leopard
4. Gaur
5. Markhor
6. Himalayan monal
7. North island brown kiwi
8. Platypus
9. Bennett Wallaby
10. West indian manatee
11. Lar gibbon
12. Caracal
13. Serval
14. Pallas´ cat
15. Wolverine
16. Walrus
17. Nilgai
18. Impala
19. Verraux sifaka
20. Brown throated three toed sloth
21. Black howler monkey
23. South american coati
24. Golden lion tamarin
25 Sea otter
 
1. Raccoon
2. Crested Porcupine
3. Nine-banded Armadillo
4. Matschies Tree Kangaroo
5. Manatee
6. Collared Peccary
7. Common Wombat
8. Patagonian Mara
9. Red River Hog
10. Skunk
11. Coati
12. Roseate Spoonbill
13. Elephant Seal
14. Walrus
15. Tasmanian Devil
16. Short-Beaked Echidna
17. Kiwi
18. Sloth
19. Musk Ox
20. Tamandua
21. Shoebill
22. Emu
23. Wolverine
24. Przewalski Wildhorse
25. Fossa
 
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