Planet Zoo: Grasslands Animal Pack arriving 13 December 🦋

DarthQuell

DarthQuell
NZFanatic said:
Oh sure, but that doesn't seem super likely, since we just got Grasslands (which effectively fits the bill of 'Drylands'). Cape or African crested porcupine would fit in a desert-themed DLC, though. Then again hopefully there will be a taxonomic change before Frontier gets to the animal and all three will be combined into one "Crested porcupine" species, which seems possible.
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True, true. And yeah, hoping that all the crested porcupines get placed inti 1 species
NZFanatic said:
On a separate note it's just occurred to me how weird I find it that the monarch butterfly is in the game. It's kind of the butterfly equivalent of getting a house sparrow. I know they're endangered/protected in their native range but monarchs are pretty much the only butterfly species I see constantly, to the point that they do not strike me as a zoo animal at all. 😅
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Makes sense. I see them every year in fall, along with swallowtails, so they seem "common" to me. Nonetheless, I kinda think it's cool to have native species in-game.
I also like the sulphur and the peacock butterflies, but they are on the lower end for me.
I guess I'd rank them the following way:

  1. Melaneus blue morpho - favorite butterfly
  2. Monarch butterfly - very nice coloration, endangered, local in my home
  3. Old World swallowtail - similar to above, except is it endangered? I had one on my desk for a couple weeks, but it finally broke so I had to toss the butterfly away
  4. European peacock butterfly - not bad coloration. In my opinion, kinda drab. But pretty
  5. Clouded sulphur - least favorite, but still nice
 

becks474

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Iben said:
I'm not sure what the definition of it was again. Like, it's not just "these animals can live together", because there are animals that have no bonus but can still be housed together, it needs to be a very specific thing in order for them to add it to interspecies enrichment.
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Yes, you just can put some species together even without the bonus. And to the later posts after yours. That can also be done if we should get an Indian Crested Porcupine instead of the Common Crested one (sure I understand the plants problematic if playing in Franchise).
 

ReptoMin

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NZFanatic said:
No, but it's still closer than the Indian. 😅
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I think Indian and (North) African Porcupines are on the same Level as Make-Pretend Cape Porcupines. If Frontier wants to be super Geo-Accurate they should go for Cape Porcupine, but these are much rarer in Zoos and the other 2 Species (Indian and North African) are probably mixed more so with Meerkats in Real Zoos than Cape because of Captive Presence, so it would make more sense to include these 2 over Cape in a Zoo Sim. Personally I root for Indian because they are the Most Common + the Lack of Western Asian Animals.
 

SalamAnders

SalamAnders
Iben said:
I'm not sure what the definition of it was again. Like, it's not just "these animals can live together", because there are animals that have no bonus but can still be housed together, it needs to be a very specific thing in order for them to add it to interspecies enrichment.
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There isn't really much logic in the interspecies system. The koala and red kangaroo enrich each other, which makes zero sense both from a real-life perspective and a gameplay perspective since their needs are too different to be housed together as far as I remember.
 

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
Watching Leaf's video first. Armadillos look genuinely incredible. The wallaby looks flawless in-game, as I suspected it would, making my initial hesitations 100% unfounded. Really good stuff. The blue wildebeest looks amazing, and I stand by this being a 10/10 necessary inclusion as I have done since it was announced. The caracal is stunning, and I was taken aback the first time I saw it do the ear flapping. And even the maned wolf looks amazing in motion. The video didn't focus too much on the hyena, so I couldn't tell if it's been adjusted yet or if perhaps it was never as much of an issue as the initial picture made it seem, so I'm still reserving judgment on it. Everything else is incredible, though. I think this is about to be the pack that dethrones the NA Animal Pack for me.
 

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
More than the emu not having interspecies enrichment with the kangaroos/wallabies, I'm perplexed about why guests can't enter their habitats. Like, whether or not they should be able to in an ideal world should be secondary to the fact that it's incredibly common in real zoos. Like, if guests can enter (going off memory here, because I don't see a list on the PZ wiki? maybe I should make one) penguins, pronghorns, and giant anteaters, for example, they should 100% be able to enter emu enclosures.
 

FoxyDee

FoxyDee
biggest_dreamer said:
More than the emu not having interspecies enrichment with the kangaroos/wallabies, I'm perplexed about why guests can't enter their habitats. Like, whether or not they should be able to in an ideal world should be secondary to the fact that it's incredibly common in real zoos. Like, if guests can enter (going off memory here, because I don't see a list on the PZ wiki? maybe I should make one) penguins, pronghorns, and giant anteaters, for example, they should 100% be able to enter emu enclosures.
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Agreed 100%. I thought emu walk-through were somewhat common in realf life, I dont know, it just feels like some of the Emu stats were copied from the Cassowary.
 

NZFanatic

NZFanatic
biggest_dreamer said:
More than the emu not having interspecies enrichment with the kangaroos/wallabies, I'm perplexed about why guests can't enter their habitats. Like, whether or not they should be able to in an ideal world should be secondary to the fact that it's incredibly common in real zoos. Like, if guests can enter (going off memory here, because I don't see a list on the PZ wiki? maybe I should make one) penguins, pronghorns, and giant anteaters, for example, they should 100% be able to enter emu enclosures.
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Did they seriously mess that up? And no interspecies bonus? Are you kidding? Come on Frontier, do better guys. They seem to get the walkthrough/interspecies information wrong with at least one animal per DLC.
 

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
The armadillo's range on Zoopedia seems outdated. These things have been expanding northward at a breakneck pace. As a kid, it was a novelty to see roadkill armadillos when traveling down to Florida. In 2009, I distinctly remember seeing my first roadkill armadillo at home in South Carolina. I can't quite tell if my location is even inside the red area on the map... I think I'm just outside it, actually. In 2016 or 2017, I had an armadillo in my back yard that was a massive ordeal to get rid of. I now see them as roadkill more commonly than every other non-opossum species combined, and lately this has extended further into North Carolina as well.

To be perfectly clear this is 100% a nitpick, and it's impossible to be precise about something like this where there's quite possibly no recent source maps to use (Wikipedia's stops at 2010). If anything it's just kind of neat that I've been witness to this northward armadillo expansion over the course of my own lifetime.
 
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