Problems with a) Animal having no space, and b) No one tending the enclosure even with workzones assigned - and how I fixed it

[Vanice]

I found that workzones sometimes get cleared. I had some set up with keepers assigned to them, one day my bears started starving. I hired new stuff, as long as people tended my bears, as their OG keepers were standing in front of the hut, not moving.
After checking my workzones I realized that I still had my workzone "Bears", but the habitat was not included in it anymore, without me doing anything to their enclosure.

Another thing I came across was having all my (again) bears are getting in a bad mood, because there is no space. I realized it was a bush I placed right next to the enclosures entrance, when they were brought back they spawned in that bush, were able to wander around, but still claimed their space was too limited.

I don't know if issue one corresponds with that second one, but oh well.
Just wanted to let you know if someone has that problem as well.

 

[Caponeal]

it's good when you finish or modify an habitat to look at the "hot map" with H and the animal select to see if he can reach all the habitat

 

[Vanice]

That's true, but that was the problem - because it was considered blue in that area.

 

[stridecolossus]

I tend to name each habitat because I'm anal that way, and sometimes I've noticed after heavily modifying a barrier that the game seems to 'forget' about the original habitat and replaces it with a new one (giving it a default name such as Habitat 42), the original gets removed from the workzone obviously leading to problems for the animals. Not sure if it's a bug as such but something to watch out for.

 

[foureyes85]

When I played the final mission in the campaign I named all exhibits and later found out that all names had reverted back to Exhibit 48 etc. ... sigh. I don't know when this occurred.