Odd Small Animal Behaviours

[coatifan]

For whatever reason, small animals are especially glitchy for me. Every once in a while, I'll experience one of these glitches:

• Animals (meerkats, prairie dogs) refuse to drink despite having a full, accessible water bowl, and are fully dehydrated
• Animals (meerkats, lemurs) get boxed for no reason and then need to be manually unboxed
• Animals (lemurs) refuse to eat while starving even when they have access to a full food tray.

Any tips to fix these? Or are they just glitches? These are some of my favorite species so I'd like to know.

 

[XT]

I haven't have those problems, except for boxing - which seems to be a widespread glitch possibly due to burrowing/climbing/swimming animations triggering a 'trapped' signal to the system which triggers the boxing.

 

[coatifan]

Interesting. I ended up just sending some of the problem animals to the trade center and it worked okay (except for the boxing). Perhaps it was a matter of group size?

 

[Karen F]

Sometimes animals just no longer detect the water supply. I had this happen in large enclosures with lots of animals, but also because of animals that got stuck on transportation (monorail/4x4...). Deleting the water supply (or something else in the enclosure) and undeleting should reset everything. I suppose the same goes for animals no longer detecting food supply..