Right now, there is only one animal in the game that has a compatibility with 5 biomes - the Cougar (all but aquatic and tundra) There's a good number of animals that have 4, though quite a bit less if you remove aquatic as a biome. What other animals would you like to see that would have a potential for at least 5 biomes, or existing game animals that might be able to be updated to fit that?
Potential for more and updated biome versatility in animals
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African Savannah Elephants do live in lots of Biomes despite their Name. They can live in Rainforests, Deserts, Swamps
Quote from the english Wikipedia Page:
The African bush elephant occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, and Angola. It moves between a variety of habitats, including subtropical and temperate forests, dry and seasonally flooded grasslands, and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land from sea level to mountain slopes. In Mali and Namibia, it also inhabits desert and semi-desert areas.[2]
Quote from the english Wikipedia Page:
The African bush elephant occurs in Sub-Saharan Africa including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Zambia, and Angola. It moves between a variety of habitats, including subtropical and temperate forests, dry and seasonally flooded grasslands, and woodlands, wetlands and agricultural land from sea level to mountain slopes. In Mali and Namibia, it also inhabits desert and semi-desert areas.[2]
The otter topic is difficult; the Eurasian and North American river otters are both very common zoo animals on their respective continents but, for obvious reasons, very rare outside them. The Asian small-clawed otter is common on both sides of the Atlantic and high on the meta-wishlist, so that's probably the best pick for a second otter species.
Thank you, you saved me from writing this ^^
Not another niché otter, please. And due to my location I see a lot of eurasian otters in zoos, but even here it's far more asian small clawed. And they can be kept in larger group, are more active and , as far as I know, need less space. All good arguments for the game. Much more interesting to watch.
In most of my area (northeast US) it's overwhelmingly NA river otters, especially in smaller zoos. My local zoo (the historic Philadelphia Zoo) is an exception though, as it's one of the few giant otter holders in the AZA (and by far the most successful breeder of them).
Getting back on track--a couple other animals would fulfill this, like the common racooon (all biomes except maybe tundra), the white stork (grassland, temperate, aquatic, maybe tropical/taiga), and white-nosed coati (grassland, temperate, tropical, desert)
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Are there red foxes that live in the tropics?
According to wikipedia - which of course isn't 100% reliable - they are widespread throughout all of Asia, just as one example, so I would assume that would include the tropics.
The suggestion of the Eurasian Otter is also a great one - and it does look like it would fit all 7 biomes. North American River Otter too, looks like it would fit all but desert and possibly not grassland (though I may be wrong on that last one). Of course, as noted, they don't appear very often in zoos outside of their homelands.
I'm thinking surely there's some kind of rabbit or hare species that would fit as well, but maybe not a specific species. Although looking at the Eastern Cottontail, it looks like might fit in all but Tundra and and Aquatic.
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You are totally right, but this thread is not to discuss which second otter is better but which animals could have 5 or more biomes, hence the mention to the Eurasian one.
In NA there are like 14 zoos that keep giant otters and 22 that keep asian Otters. (I manually counted on websites, because why not). As you said there is overwhelmingly big number of NA river otters.
Asian otter appears to be big zoo / rich country animal. (so most otters are anyway). You cant find much of them outside of US, western Europe, Australia, Japan.
Sure. The NA river otter could itself at least fulfill temperate, taiga, tundra, aquatic, and potentially grassland, as its range stretches from Alaska to Florida.
Actually, I believe (this is all anecdotal, so don't take my word for it) they are largely absent from Southeast Asia and the Indian subcontinent, and even when present in the latter it's mostly in grassland or desert areas.
The timber wolf seems like it was pretty clearly meant to represent specifically cold-weather dwelling subspecies/populations of Canis lupus, but if it is (as the Zoopedia claims) meant to represent all of Canis lupus, it should also have the Grassland (India, Spain), Desert (Arabia), and maybe even Tropical (India) tags.
Tundra no, but taiga yes
Except Desert