People, dlc discussion has become quite boring, people really are doing their best to present the samey repetetive pack idears, favoring everything with "....land" in its name so lets do something different.
I like new guinea, new guinea is the 2. Largest island on the planet after greenland and the mainlandmass of melanesia.
The island also is very diverse in habitat, featuring dense tropical rainforests, dry scrublands, lush savannahs, plentiful mangroves and wetlands, open alpine aereas and even icy glaciers, but sadly we wont see all of these ecosystems in our pack, as most new guinea animals in zoos are confined to its tropical rainforests and wetlands, as our 2 current inhabitants tje salt water crocodile and cassowary show as well.
But lets start, shall we?
1. A Treekangaroo
The must have inclusion and fanfavorite from the island, both matchies and goodfellows tree kangaroo would be wonderfull, both of them being equally good options.
Tree kangaroos are among the few animals that really would need frontiers help to be fully realised in the game, due to their very weird way to move around. Instead of normal walking, they just hop around like normal kangaroos, but because of their shorter limps they tend to have to put their front feet on the ground for stabilisation every few hops. They do the same on trees, where their arms/hands grasp around their climbing curface while they hop with their back legs to create momentum. It looks really whack and id encourage everybody to look it up!
There are currently a total of 13 EAZA zoos that hold them, 12 of them goodfellows, BUT this is one of the cases where it really doesnt mean much about the global presence as america specialised on matchies while europe specalised on goodfellows with oceania holding both and even more thar arnt held globally, so really both matchies and goodfellows are equally good and if we get one we can easily get the other aswell. Personally, i find the matchies to be cuter looking, but thats 100% a taste thing.
Matchies:
Goodfellows:
2. Victoria Crowned Pidgeon
Comeone, you guys knew this ones comming.
A main stay of any tropical house with free roaming animals, they are quite common with 91 EAZA zoos holding them, but 41 more hold their close relatives the Sheepmakers crowned pidgeons that look the same but with red chests and bellys, and 23 the western crowned pidgeons that just looks like the victorian.
Besides being a zoo staple, their color also would be a striking change of pace, as blue really is an unusual color for an animal with so far only the blue morphos and cassowary being actually blue if im not stupid.
Being the largest pidgeon currently living on this planet with around 74 cm long, theyd also fit greatly into planet zoos trend to pick the largest animals of its group so its easier to actually see them while playing.
Another asset that theyve got is their quite unique behaviour, as they usually travel in pairs along the ground, with most interestingly the males being at the same time quite allright with each other and only trying to intimidate each other in breeding season by puffing their chest and crest as they rise their wings and dash at each other, which would both be a wonderfull fight animation that wouldnt injure the animals while also being great if we actually get something like breeding seasons in the game one day.
They are also know to have melanistic individuals, which would be a great colormorh for the game.
Also something wikipedia found important enough to mention about them, they seem to really love figgs in captivity, use this information as you wish
3. Nicobar Pidgeon
Thought we were allready done with pidgeons?
Nope not when theirs a second very common and colorful pidgeon, that also has the advantage of being a more proficent and far spread flyer while still being feaseable as a ground habitat bird.
As our first non endemic species, the nicobar pidgeon is found all across indonesia, mostly living on the ofshore coasts of bigger islands like javaand borneo, with their most notable populations living on the nicobar islands and the phillipines, making them our first phillipino animal.
For why id want them, just look at them. These gorgeous birds are what happend if you stuffed a rainbow into a birds feathers and they look just as beautiful as you would imagine.
Their long hair like neck feathers also make them really standout even without the colors. While not endemic to new guinea, they really would help to represent the image of the island paradise full of colorfull birds the island has and their 109 holdings make them even more common in EAZA zoos then the victoria crowned pidgeon. For an animal i knew so little about before researching for this post, they quickly became my most wanted bird and even overshadowed the victorias crowned pidgeon in that regard.
They also are the closest living relative of the dodo, so there are fun options with the dodo statue there for theming.
4. Pig Nosed Turtle
So i have a riddle for you guys.
Imagine an animal that would be completly unique from anything in the game, would function well as a habitat animal while still being mostly aquatic, is very common in zoos with an active breeding and rereleasing program, would add to an underrepresented order of animals, has a funny nose and is in a taxon all by itself?
Dont have to pretend like this riddle was very solveable, but with the answer being the headline for this paragraph, you all know its the pig nosed turtle.
Living in the wetlands of southern new guinea and northern australia, these adorable little turtles are found in 81 EAZA zoos including many countrys with fewer zoos aswell that you dont often see pop up on zootierliste like taiwan, armenia, turkey or norway.
Also did i say little? With a carapace lenght of of 70-75 cm, these turtles are as large as the victoria crowned pidgeon, but unlike them, these turtles tend to be quite teritorial and agressive towards each other.
So we got the only "softshell" turtles that still have a leathery carapace and arnt just blob, while also being by far the most common of the larger turtles thats also not fully aquatic.
Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
5. Crocodile Monitor
New guinea is home to one of the largest lizards in the world, the Crocodile Monitor.
Its the largest arboreal monitor lizard with an exceptionally long tail, making some of them even compareable to komododragons in lenght, and is perhaps the monitor lizard with the most stamina. This stamina is mostly used to navigate the treetops of the southern wetlands and rainforests of new guinea, prefering the wet mangroves along the southern coasts. They are known to hang onto branches using their hindfeet and occasionally their tails in a prehensile grip, but mostly they use them as a counterballance while jumping and climbing from branch to branch.
While highly aboreal, they actually only rarly sleep in the treetops, prefering to sleep on the ground or even submerged in their aquatic habitat.
Another rather unique behaviour is that they rise up on their hind legs both to check out their surroundings and as a warning and intimidation for others.
Being the apex predator of new guinea, these monitors have a varied diet that mostly consists of fast moving prey like birds, small mammals and pretty much everything living on the island thats not called human or cassowary. Their even known to take down pigs and hunting dogs, with their largest recorded prey item being invasive but unspecified deer.
Aided for that status, they are not only among the most mobile monitors on the land, the water and the treetops, they also have unique adaptations like long fangs to catch their mobile small prey and a more intelligent hunting pattern, where instead of ambushing its prey from behind they tend to stalk their prey and anticipate its movement so that they can meet them headlong.
Their role as active predators also makes them a prominent presence in indiginous culture, where its seen as an evil spirit that climbs trees, walks on its hindlegs, spits fire and eats men, so arguably this guy deserves the title of dragon even more then their larger komodo cousins.
Sadly, eventhough they live long lifes, their captive presence could very well be on a timer as they are notoriously hard to breed, with only 4 clutches so far hatching successfully in captivity.
Hopefully this trend will one day be ended, but for know we dont know for sure.
6. Dusky Pardemelon
This might be the most unknown and least studied animal on the list, eventhough it has a proud 16 EAZA holdings to its name.
It was quite hard to get informations for, as my main source wikipedia only has 8 sentences about it, so i needed to get creative.
Their habitat are the tropical and suptropical rainforests, savannahs and scrublands of southern new guinea, where it lives a solitary life as a nocturnal small herbivore.
As a pardermelon it has quite a few differences to other macropods, most notably its small size of just up to 60 cm without the tail, being 30 cm short of the red necked wallaby.
Their tail is also particulary thicc and short with only very short and light hair, quite funny thinking back about exactly those complains being made for the red necked wallaby.
Besides their nocturnal lifestyle, its also worth noting that they only rarly hop, mostly moving on all fours through the thick brush instead, forming trails they often return to.
In the game, they would be quite nice for their odditiy as an even smaller macropod great for both nocturnal or tropical houses, aswell as mixed habitats with the pidgeons mentioned before.
They might be far from a must have, but they for sure would be neat.
7. Short Beaked Echidna
This pack has been and obviously partly is by definition quite the contained pack, as most animals from new guinea are endemic to it, but atleast in my opinion it would be nice that if possible most packs also have atleast one far reaching animal so that even if you dont plan on building for that area you could still find something for another and even if we allready got 2 nice options, how about we take out the allmighty all terrain adaptive power machiene that is the short beaked echidna.
This is the short beaked Echidnas range, if there was any doubt why this is propaply among the best animals to be added to our oceanian roster, im sure this will have erased it.
They live everywhere, from the temperate forests of tasmania, over the high and cold mountain peaks of the great dividing range, under the hot sun in the dry outback up to the warm and humid tropical rainforests and wetlands of northern australia and new guinea. It literally is australias most widespread animal.
Also they are just the cutest. For example did you know that they blow bubbles from their noses?
As a monotreme, they are among the wildest animals on the planet, and to just list some of their whack features, these creatures got:
Add to that their 17 holdings in the EAZA among their subspecies with a positive trend really just makes them even cooler as they are actually in captivity, which is rare for an oceanian animal this cool.
This deepdive into their whackyness was really fun and they might just have become my most wanted animal for PZ and among my favorite animals in general.
Also bubbles.
8. King Bird of Paradise
To end things of, what would a new guinea pack be without a bird of paradise?
Sadly, birds of paradise are very uncommon in captivity, with only the lesser and greater bird of paradise and their subspecies being relativly common, but im personally unsure about putting such large birds into the Walkthrough exhibits, but then i found one, one bird of paradise thats bred in captivity, had a rise in population latly through consistent breeding in walsrode in europe in the last years and fits the WE like a glove, the king bird of paradise with its currently 9 EAZA holdings, which might sounds small, but with 6 of them optaining breeding pairs from walsrode in just the last 5 years with 1-2 zoos gaining them per year, its quite likly that they will spread even further.
Im honest, i didnt knew about them before making this list, but the smallest bird of paradise has its strongsuits. Besides being a good fit for the WE, its striking red, green white and yellow colors would make them a beautiful addition to our new guinea colorpallete. They also are among the most widespread species of BOP as they live pretty much everywhere in the lowlands of new guinea and even on some of the surrounding islands. Their feathers are also among the most vividly colored of all the BOP, earning them the nickname of "living gem".
Personally, id totally understand and realise that in an unrealistic pack, this mayhaps be the most unrealistic choice, but due to the current restraints of the WE and the fact that it is among the only species of bird of paradise with a positive trend in captive numbers that do not rely on the confiscation of illegal imports, they are in atleast my opinion the most sensible choice, even if i blame no one for prefering the greater or lesser bird of paradise over them, who sadly had to skip this pack due to me simply being unsure how to handle them.
And thats my pack!
Im honest i had a lot of fun learning and researching for this thread, i love the island of new guinea and its unique fauna and while i know how unrealistic this pack would be, it sure as hell would be a sweet dream of mine.
I hope you guys had as much fun reading as i had writing this post and i would love to hear what you would like to see from new guinea, if youd keep all of my choices or if there even are animals that slipped through my research.
But while this pack might be unrealistic, i have high hopes to get atleast 2 more animals from new guinea in the form of one each in an island and a rainforest pack, with the question just being who to choose of these cuties?
My personal ranking for wants would be:
1. Short Beaked Echidna (they dont have to be in those packs though cause all terrain whacko pinecone could literally join in allmost any pack)
2. Matchies Tree Kangaroo (They might be the most unique rigging wise and are imo the cuter species)
3. Nicobar Pidgeon (rainbow bird with large range is a defenite yes)
4. Victoria Crowned Pidgeon (Blue Iconic Bird id build a big tropical house for it to free roam)
5. Pig Nosed Turtle (Props best bet for an aquarium habitat animal thats also would fit in well with the platypus and salty)
6. Crocodile Monitor (Precious most unique monitor to be added to the game)
7. King Bird of Paradise (Cool Bird, but WE drags it down, its just too unflexible so far)
8. Dusky Pardermelon (Would fill new niches and be visually unique, but its the animal i by far would replace for a better choice)
And some honorable mentions that didnt make the cut:
I like new guinea, new guinea is the 2. Largest island on the planet after greenland and the mainlandmass of melanesia.
The island also is very diverse in habitat, featuring dense tropical rainforests, dry scrublands, lush savannahs, plentiful mangroves and wetlands, open alpine aereas and even icy glaciers, but sadly we wont see all of these ecosystems in our pack, as most new guinea animals in zoos are confined to its tropical rainforests and wetlands, as our 2 current inhabitants tje salt water crocodile and cassowary show as well.
But lets start, shall we?
1. A Treekangaroo
The must have inclusion and fanfavorite from the island, both matchies and goodfellows tree kangaroo would be wonderfull, both of them being equally good options.
Tree kangaroos are among the few animals that really would need frontiers help to be fully realised in the game, due to their very weird way to move around. Instead of normal walking, they just hop around like normal kangaroos, but because of their shorter limps they tend to have to put their front feet on the ground for stabilisation every few hops. They do the same on trees, where their arms/hands grasp around their climbing curface while they hop with their back legs to create momentum. It looks really whack and id encourage everybody to look it up!
There are currently a total of 13 EAZA zoos that hold them, 12 of them goodfellows, BUT this is one of the cases where it really doesnt mean much about the global presence as america specialised on matchies while europe specalised on goodfellows with oceania holding both and even more thar arnt held globally, so really both matchies and goodfellows are equally good and if we get one we can easily get the other aswell. Personally, i find the matchies to be cuter looking, but thats 100% a taste thing.
Matchies:
Goodfellows:
2. Victoria Crowned Pidgeon
Comeone, you guys knew this ones comming.
A main stay of any tropical house with free roaming animals, they are quite common with 91 EAZA zoos holding them, but 41 more hold their close relatives the Sheepmakers crowned pidgeons that look the same but with red chests and bellys, and 23 the western crowned pidgeons that just looks like the victorian.
Besides being a zoo staple, their color also would be a striking change of pace, as blue really is an unusual color for an animal with so far only the blue morphos and cassowary being actually blue if im not stupid.
Being the largest pidgeon currently living on this planet with around 74 cm long, theyd also fit greatly into planet zoos trend to pick the largest animals of its group so its easier to actually see them while playing.
Another asset that theyve got is their quite unique behaviour, as they usually travel in pairs along the ground, with most interestingly the males being at the same time quite allright with each other and only trying to intimidate each other in breeding season by puffing their chest and crest as they rise their wings and dash at each other, which would both be a wonderfull fight animation that wouldnt injure the animals while also being great if we actually get something like breeding seasons in the game one day.
They are also know to have melanistic individuals, which would be a great colormorh for the game.
Also something wikipedia found important enough to mention about them, they seem to really love figgs in captivity, use this information as you wish
3. Nicobar Pidgeon
Thought we were allready done with pidgeons?
Nope not when theirs a second very common and colorful pidgeon, that also has the advantage of being a more proficent and far spread flyer while still being feaseable as a ground habitat bird.
As our first non endemic species, the nicobar pidgeon is found all across indonesia, mostly living on the ofshore coasts of bigger islands like javaand borneo, with their most notable populations living on the nicobar islands and the phillipines, making them our first phillipino animal.
For why id want them, just look at them. These gorgeous birds are what happend if you stuffed a rainbow into a birds feathers and they look just as beautiful as you would imagine.
Their long hair like neck feathers also make them really standout even without the colors. While not endemic to new guinea, they really would help to represent the image of the island paradise full of colorfull birds the island has and their 109 holdings make them even more common in EAZA zoos then the victoria crowned pidgeon. For an animal i knew so little about before researching for this post, they quickly became my most wanted bird and even overshadowed the victorias crowned pidgeon in that regard.
They also are the closest living relative of the dodo, so there are fun options with the dodo statue there for theming.
4. Pig Nosed Turtle
So i have a riddle for you guys.
Imagine an animal that would be completly unique from anything in the game, would function well as a habitat animal while still being mostly aquatic, is very common in zoos with an active breeding and rereleasing program, would add to an underrepresented order of animals, has a funny nose and is in a taxon all by itself?
Dont have to pretend like this riddle was very solveable, but with the answer being the headline for this paragraph, you all know its the pig nosed turtle.
Living in the wetlands of southern new guinea and northern australia, these adorable little turtles are found in 81 EAZA zoos including many countrys with fewer zoos aswell that you dont often see pop up on zootierliste like taiwan, armenia, turkey or norway.
Also did i say little? With a carapace lenght of of 70-75 cm, these turtles are as large as the victoria crowned pidgeon, but unlike them, these turtles tend to be quite teritorial and agressive towards each other.
So we got the only "softshell" turtles that still have a leathery carapace and arnt just blob, while also being by far the most common of the larger turtles thats also not fully aquatic.
Sounds like a sweet deal to me.
5. Crocodile Monitor
New guinea is home to one of the largest lizards in the world, the Crocodile Monitor.
Its the largest arboreal monitor lizard with an exceptionally long tail, making some of them even compareable to komododragons in lenght, and is perhaps the monitor lizard with the most stamina. This stamina is mostly used to navigate the treetops of the southern wetlands and rainforests of new guinea, prefering the wet mangroves along the southern coasts. They are known to hang onto branches using their hindfeet and occasionally their tails in a prehensile grip, but mostly they use them as a counterballance while jumping and climbing from branch to branch.
While highly aboreal, they actually only rarly sleep in the treetops, prefering to sleep on the ground or even submerged in their aquatic habitat.
Another rather unique behaviour is that they rise up on their hind legs both to check out their surroundings and as a warning and intimidation for others.
Being the apex predator of new guinea, these monitors have a varied diet that mostly consists of fast moving prey like birds, small mammals and pretty much everything living on the island thats not called human or cassowary. Their even known to take down pigs and hunting dogs, with their largest recorded prey item being invasive but unspecified deer.
Aided for that status, they are not only among the most mobile monitors on the land, the water and the treetops, they also have unique adaptations like long fangs to catch their mobile small prey and a more intelligent hunting pattern, where instead of ambushing its prey from behind they tend to stalk their prey and anticipate its movement so that they can meet them headlong.
Their role as active predators also makes them a prominent presence in indiginous culture, where its seen as an evil spirit that climbs trees, walks on its hindlegs, spits fire and eats men, so arguably this guy deserves the title of dragon even more then their larger komodo cousins.
Sadly, eventhough they live long lifes, their captive presence could very well be on a timer as they are notoriously hard to breed, with only 4 clutches so far hatching successfully in captivity.
Hopefully this trend will one day be ended, but for know we dont know for sure.
6. Dusky Pardemelon
This might be the most unknown and least studied animal on the list, eventhough it has a proud 16 EAZA holdings to its name.
It was quite hard to get informations for, as my main source wikipedia only has 8 sentences about it, so i needed to get creative.
Their habitat are the tropical and suptropical rainforests, savannahs and scrublands of southern new guinea, where it lives a solitary life as a nocturnal small herbivore.
As a pardermelon it has quite a few differences to other macropods, most notably its small size of just up to 60 cm without the tail, being 30 cm short of the red necked wallaby.
Their tail is also particulary thicc and short with only very short and light hair, quite funny thinking back about exactly those complains being made for the red necked wallaby.
Besides their nocturnal lifestyle, its also worth noting that they only rarly hop, mostly moving on all fours through the thick brush instead, forming trails they often return to.
In the game, they would be quite nice for their odditiy as an even smaller macropod great for both nocturnal or tropical houses, aswell as mixed habitats with the pidgeons mentioned before.
They might be far from a must have, but they for sure would be neat.
7. Short Beaked Echidna
This pack has been and obviously partly is by definition quite the contained pack, as most animals from new guinea are endemic to it, but atleast in my opinion it would be nice that if possible most packs also have atleast one far reaching animal so that even if you dont plan on building for that area you could still find something for another and even if we allready got 2 nice options, how about we take out the allmighty all terrain adaptive power machiene that is the short beaked echidna.
This is the short beaked Echidnas range, if there was any doubt why this is propaply among the best animals to be added to our oceanian roster, im sure this will have erased it.
They live everywhere, from the temperate forests of tasmania, over the high and cold mountain peaks of the great dividing range, under the hot sun in the dry outback up to the warm and humid tropical rainforests and wetlands of northern australia and new guinea. It literally is australias most widespread animal.
Also they are just the cutest. For example did you know that they blow bubbles from their noses?
As a monotreme, they are among the wildest animals on the planet, and to just list some of their whack features, these creatures got:
- Fur but lay eggs
- Spikes and can curl up into a ball
- They are the favored world of one of the worlds largest fleas
- They hibernate
- One of their main ways to optain water aside from their main prey of termites is by licking water droplets of flora
- They have one muscle spanning its entire body thats used to change their shape
- They have large claws with arms more mechanically efficient then us humans
- Its tounge is coverd in a sticky mucus, which not only catches insects but also can be blown into bubbles
- Due to a strong bloodflow, their tounge can stiff so much that it can penetrate wood
- its mouth cant open wider then 5 mm and its slender snout is shaped from the inside in a way to catch condensating water from its breath
- The tounge can move in and out so fast, its recorded to move more then 100 times a minute, thanks to a rubber like elasticity
- Its stomage is none acidic or really chemical in anyway, instead having tough walls that grind both insects and whatever else they slurp up into digestible powder
- Its cardiovascular system is most similar to a seal, allowing this terrestrial animal to mostly shut down its body and funnel its oxygen into its heart and brain, allowing it to tollerate high amounts of carbon dioxide and even being submerged in water. This whacko thing can swim and dive btw
- Its optic systems are a middleground of reptilian and mammal features
- It has the flattest lens of any animal, giving it the longest focal lenght, meaning this thing can look the farthest and see things the sharpest, BUT they dont have any muscles to distort the lence so their whole eye distorts to differ the lenght between lens and retina to adjust the focal lenght, making it in the end still kind of bad at seeing
- The whole snout has a layer of keratine on it, the same stuff that makes up your fingernails
- It has electroceptors, allowing it to detect electrical fields. These electroceptors are also the glands that produce the bubble mucus
- While the platypus is a smoothbrained stupid little thing, these guys have a large and heavily folded brain, with both its brain anatomy and animal testing with things like labyrinths, trapdoors, memory tests etc concluding that it is comparably smart to a rat or cat. For a comparison for how wild that is most marsupials are smooth and small brained with the most intelligent ones, the kangaroos and some other macropods, which while propaply smarter then expected due to recent studdies, still are on the lower end of brainpower amongst mammals. This ancient whacko hedgehog meanwhile is on the top end.
Add to that their 17 holdings in the EAZA among their subspecies with a positive trend really just makes them even cooler as they are actually in captivity, which is rare for an oceanian animal this cool.
This deepdive into their whackyness was really fun and they might just have become my most wanted animal for PZ and among my favorite animals in general.
Also bubbles.
8. King Bird of Paradise
To end things of, what would a new guinea pack be without a bird of paradise?
Sadly, birds of paradise are very uncommon in captivity, with only the lesser and greater bird of paradise and their subspecies being relativly common, but im personally unsure about putting such large birds into the Walkthrough exhibits, but then i found one, one bird of paradise thats bred in captivity, had a rise in population latly through consistent breeding in walsrode in europe in the last years and fits the WE like a glove, the king bird of paradise with its currently 9 EAZA holdings, which might sounds small, but with 6 of them optaining breeding pairs from walsrode in just the last 5 years with 1-2 zoos gaining them per year, its quite likly that they will spread even further.
Im honest, i didnt knew about them before making this list, but the smallest bird of paradise has its strongsuits. Besides being a good fit for the WE, its striking red, green white and yellow colors would make them a beautiful addition to our new guinea colorpallete. They also are among the most widespread species of BOP as they live pretty much everywhere in the lowlands of new guinea and even on some of the surrounding islands. Their feathers are also among the most vividly colored of all the BOP, earning them the nickname of "living gem".
Personally, id totally understand and realise that in an unrealistic pack, this mayhaps be the most unrealistic choice, but due to the current restraints of the WE and the fact that it is among the only species of bird of paradise with a positive trend in captive numbers that do not rely on the confiscation of illegal imports, they are in atleast my opinion the most sensible choice, even if i blame no one for prefering the greater or lesser bird of paradise over them, who sadly had to skip this pack due to me simply being unsure how to handle them.
And thats my pack!
Im honest i had a lot of fun learning and researching for this thread, i love the island of new guinea and its unique fauna and while i know how unrealistic this pack would be, it sure as hell would be a sweet dream of mine.
I hope you guys had as much fun reading as i had writing this post and i would love to hear what you would like to see from new guinea, if youd keep all of my choices or if there even are animals that slipped through my research.
But while this pack might be unrealistic, i have high hopes to get atleast 2 more animals from new guinea in the form of one each in an island and a rainforest pack, with the question just being who to choose of these cuties?
My personal ranking for wants would be:
1. Short Beaked Echidna (they dont have to be in those packs though cause all terrain whacko pinecone could literally join in allmost any pack)
2. Matchies Tree Kangaroo (They might be the most unique rigging wise and are imo the cuter species)
3. Nicobar Pidgeon (rainbow bird with large range is a defenite yes)
4. Victoria Crowned Pidgeon (Blue Iconic Bird id build a big tropical house for it to free roam)
5. Pig Nosed Turtle (Props best bet for an aquarium habitat animal thats also would fit in well with the platypus and salty)
6. Crocodile Monitor (Precious most unique monitor to be added to the game)
7. King Bird of Paradise (Cool Bird, but WE drags it down, its just too unflexible so far)
8. Dusky Pardermelon (Would fill new niches and be visually unique, but its the animal i by far would replace for a better choice)
And some honorable mentions that didnt make the cut:
- Electus Parrot (Beautiful, colorful and extreme Sexualdimorph, these parrots have both a far range and are plenty in captivity, but i cant see them currently in the WE)
- Greater, Lesser or Ragiana Bird of Paradise (All of them look stunning and once they start introducing larger aviary birds, one of those is a must. Id personally prefer the ragiana for its large range and being the most common and best doing bird of paradise in captivity, but all of them would be a good option)
- Green-naped pheasent Pidgeon (A beautiful groundbird found in captivity, but 3 pidgeons would be a bit much and the other 2 were both far more common and visually stunning. Still a neat animal though)
