Nursing for Babies and Their Mothers

[GiornoPizza]

Hello, this is an idea I had a while ago and it sounds a bit weird from the title I know, but I promise it's not like that. In Zoo Tycoon 2 some animals have nursing with their mothers, notably Zebras and Quaggas can nurse to give their young "food." In Planet Zoo juvenile and newborn animals simply will eat from their habitat's food source, I think that it would add a lot of character and cute interactions for animals to nurse their young, if the species is known to do that. It doesn't need to bee adding udders to bovids or having a suckling animation, but I think if maternal animals could act as a kind of "food source" for their young with a unique interaction animation or something of the like, it would be a great addition. I know some animals already have animations for parents and young, but I think adding this in would give another level of realism and make the animals feel more alive with one another. For instance, a baby camel could run up to its mother and kind of rub its head against the mother's torso and that could satiate it's food needs.

 

[NZFanatic]

While I'm open to any and all additional inter-animal interactions (they're seriously lacking), I have to assume the reason this sort of thing was missed out was because there isn't any real consistency as to the ages of juvenile animals. Some come out as newborns, which yes, should be nursed, but others come out looking closer to subadults (like the sable antelope), at which point they would be on solid food. Still, though, as I said, any new animations to show that animals actually acknowledge each other would be a huge plus for me. I'm hoping we'll get some of the new group behaviours from JWE2 at some point as well.

 

[Moonfox]

Yes!!!! So much yes.

We need suckling mammals. It would be wonderful to see in game, and we’re missing so many social interactions as it is. I would love to see suckling patched in for all mammals, the babies look young enough to be milk fed in all species.

 

[Firestar97]

Nursing is definitely needed. But why should they implement it without a fitting Animation. That would be just ridiculous.
Also if Mammals will get Nutrition from it, they should also update the Penguin Feeding Animation to really satisfy the Chicks Hunger that way and also add feeding for the Flamingo