Rank the Animal Packs

[AndyZoos]

5. Arid Animal Pack: The quality of the animals is fantastic across the board but the variety just doesn't do it for me. The porcupine and the sand cat are definitely standouts but the rest just... Doesn't add much to the game for me.

4. Southeast Asia Pack: The roster here is (mostly) fantastic and the animals are very well done. And honestly, major kudos to Frontier for listening to the community and shifting the binturong design last minute. This pack would have been #5 if that fix didn't happen. At the time, the binturong was my #1 wanted animal and if they flubbed it? I would've been crushed. But they nailed it in the end, TBH. The tapir could use a facelift and the proboscis monkey could have been replaced with a more aesthetically pleasing primate that's found more frequently found in zoos but... I'm still glad they're both in-game. This pack is one of the main reasons I find myself wishing that Frontier would add sings for older animals in-game using the new design/format. They're all nice but some of them just aren't very versatile...

3. North America Animal Pack: All of the animal picks here were incredibly sold. I didn't need the moose but I understand why it was added over a few other possible options (e.g., black bear, smaller deer species, black-footed ferret). This is the one pack that has signs I almost never use. The cartoony style is "fun," but it doesn't match any other content in the game and I mean... Why do the beaver and prairie dog look so mad?

2. Wetlands Animal Pack: Okay, now it's getting harder. This pack rules. It has what were three of my most-requested animals at the time (ASCO, capybara, and platpus), added a new gorgeous bird, and the nile lechwe is the "nobody asked for it but its so darn cute" pick of the pack. The newt is nice too. The water buffalo and the caiman are in the "fine, whatever" category but... They both look great and the other picks beyond make up for it. The signs and new enrichment items are also really, really great in this one!

1. Grasslands Animal Pack: This pack felt pretty similar to the wetlands pack in terms of quality. I was ecstatic about 7/8 of the habitat animals added (wildebeest wasn't the best choice, TBH). And the butterflies were a really versatile, fun addition (not as cool as the bats or the sloth, IMHO, but arguably have more general uses--and introduced a fun new guest interaction). Beyond that, the new items that we got with this one (the fine white mesh, super skinny/short poles) are really, really nice adds to the game!

 

[CharlieXGaming]

We now have 2 more animal packs, what’s everyone’s rankings now?

 

[NachoB]

We now have 2 more animal packs, what’s everyone’s rankings now?

1. North América
2. Grasslands ( i changed my mind, used to be Wetlands mostly because of capy, crane and platypus but the buffalo and lechwe are just there for me never done anything with them and there could've been so many other choices like another waterfowl, and i like the newt but the butterflies are 200% better, so Grasslands goes up and Wetlands goes down)
3. South East Asia
4. Wetlands
5. Eurasia
6. Arid





















-1000. Barnyard.

 

[Captain Callum]

We now have 2 more animal packs, what’s everyone’s rankings now?

1. Barnyard North America
2. Wetlands
3. Grasslands
4. Eurasia
5. Barnyard
6. Arid
7. South East Asia

 

[Chuditch]

1. Grasslands Animal Pack - I feel like I have less to say about Grasslands than most other animal packs, which is weird given it’s decidedly my favourite. It’s just peak
2. Wetlands Animal Pack - Probably the single most diverse roster of any pack we’ve ever had, including the only one to have at least one species from every class of terrestrial vertebrates. Really great mix of highly requested animals (capybara, platypus, otter) and more obscure yet inspired picks (lechwe, the water buffalo when you ignore the wild bit, and of course the crane). I even think the caiman is a very worthwhile addition
3. Southeast Asia Animal Pack - The first of the animal packs definitely had and still has its issues, but I can’t help but look back on it fondly. South-east Asia is one of my favourite parts of the world and I devote a section to it in the majority of my zoos, and the sun bear alone makes this pack a must have for me. If only they’d take the clouded leopard off the moon and actually make a Malayan tapir so the pack could truly shine
4. Arid Animal Pack - The quality of the animals in this pack is outstanding for the most part and it includes such heavy hitters as the dromedary camel and crested porcupine. However, its focus one a single continent makes it stick out like a sore thumb amongst the biome packs, and a roster heavily saturated by ungulates (none of which offer much we hadn’t seen before) only makes the pack feel less diverse
5. North America Animal Pack - I actually think the roster for this pack is near perfect, it’s just that very few of the species in this pack are useful for me personally (this being a personal ranking and all) given the rarity of North American species in my local zoos. Very well done, and thanks for the alligator (the one animal from the pack I do use, and use a lot)

My top 5 ranking hasn't changed... because unfortunately our latest two animal packs have also been my least favourite.

6. Eurasia Animal Pack - Similar to North America this is more just an issue of the pack having very little for me personally, but NA at least has the extremely useful alligator and, in my opinion, a more well-rounded roster, whilst Eurasia doesn't have any habitat species that are useful for me. The mute swan is a godsend and one of the most important animals added to the game in years, but it's not the particular waterfowl species I needed and so I use mods based off of it rather than the animal itself. I like the tortoise though they're cool.
7. Barnyard Animal Pack - It's fine enough ig, domestic animals just don't interest me much and the weird breed choices certainly didn't help. I like the alpaca and chicken.

 

[CharlieXGaming]

7. Arid Animal Pack - A pack that has incredible quality but a lack of good picks. It’s a good selection for realistic zoo rosters since ungulates make up a fair chunk of irl zoos, but putting them all in one pack was not a good idea. The pack lacks diversity - baboon, bird or a reptile could’ve helped. They could’ve put a couple of the ungulates in prior packs like Addax in Conservation or one in the Africa Pack and make room for more diverse picks in this pack. Porcupines great though.

6. SouthEast Asia Animal Pack - Some of the animals included are essential and zoo icons (clouded leopard, binturong, sun bear) and a couple others are nice additions as well (babirusa and the tapir) but none of them really stand out to me saying “you need to buy this pack cause it has this animal!” Other than the leopard. I also don’t normally like building for Asian species so I’m also kinda biased. Only reason it’s not in last place is because the tapir and leopard got fixed.

5. Barnyard Animal Pack - The actual concept for this pack is really strong, petting zoos are everywhere in irl zoos, so regardless of whatever wild animals we need, these animals are just as warranted. While the theme is strong there’s too many missing details in this pack and a couple weird choices. Obviously we could’ve got a duck or Guinea pig, but the breeds in the animals they did pick are even weirder omissions. Alpine goat instead dwarf, clone donkey instead of a pony or horse, the highland cattle being too small, etc. Maybe if it was 1 or 2 mistakes but all of these small details together bring down the pack for me.

4. Eurasia Animal Pack - Basically Arid pack but does what it’s supposed to, represent its region properly and with diversity. While Arid focuses mostly on ungulates, Eurasia includes a bird, pig, mustelid, bear, Asian Antelope, Buffalo and a new caprine. Even if it does have a few ungulates they are all atleast different and somewhat asked for, unlike Arid. The pack represents its region(s) fairly well and has amazing quality. Nothing extremely wrong with it.

3. Wetlands Animal Pack - Ah yes back when frontier could surprise us in a good way lol This pack has the most surprising picks, picks that none of us were expecting. However these picks unlike recent surprise picks, were really good. Capybara, ASCO, Crane, Platypus, even things like the Lechwe and Buffalo I appreciate because they’re very useful. A great pack overall - only flaw is the caiman because it’s useless to me when we already had one.

2. North America Animal Pack - Probably the best pack that represents its region. Frontier understood their assignment of showcasing NA in the best way possible. Didn’t need a scenery set, and the animal roster is perfect, hitting all the boxes with the Moose, Beaver, Cougar, and even unexpected ones like the gator. 10/10 pack and is a really good pack to get right off the bat for a new player.

1. Grasslands Animal Pack - Maybe a bit more of a controversial roster compared to NA because of the wildebeest, but I disagree I think the Wildebeest is a perfect addition in this pack - having 1 ungulate in a pack is fine and seeing how the theme was grasslands, a common ungulate biome especially in Africa, it works. Everything else is great, we had Wetlands earlier in the year giving us really good things we didn’t expect, and this pack giving us good things we did expect. Even the exhibit animal(s) are probably the best exhibit animals we had gotten - ever. Zero complaints.

 

[Aramar]

None of the animals packs are bad and it's hard to rank them, but here's my classification from "less good" to "more good"

5) Arid DLC: it has the best animal in game (porcupine) but it suffers from lack of diversity. You can build one habitat and put in it 6 of the 7 habitat animals.

4) South East Asia DLC: I like the animal choices, but none of them are essential to me. This is a good filler pack. The slow motion clouded leopard and the constant tapir complaints hurt this DLC.

3) Grasslands DLC: there's some nice variation in the shape, size and continents of the animals. The 5 butterflies were a nice surprise.

2) Wetlands DLC: includes very popular diving animals and a good representation of biomes and continents (even a tundra bird!). Adding a European exhibit animal was an unexpected but good choice.

1) North America DLC: perfection. The best DLC including standard packs. The animal roster is iconic and diverse, from a tiny desert rodent to a huge tundra deer. Diving, climbing and burrowing animals from basically all biomes.

My updated version:

7) Barnyard DLC: for me this is like the toilets: needed, but not exciting! This pack doesn't have an exhibit animal and while I like it, it ranks last.

6) Arid DLC: it has the best animal in game (porcupine) but it suffers from lack of diversity. You can build one habitat and put in it 6 of the 7 habitat animals.

5) South East Asia DLC: I like the animal choices, but none of them are essential to me. This is a good filler pack. The slow motion clouded leopard and the constant tapir complaints hurt this DLC.

4) Eurasia DLC: this dlc unexpectedly brought several of my most wanted animals for which I had already lost faith.

3) Grasslands DLC: there's some nice variation in the shape, size and continents of the animals. The 5 butterflies were a nice surprise.

2) Wetlands DLC: includes very popular diving animals and a good representation of biomes and continents (even a tundra bird!). Adding a European exhibit animal was an unexpected but good choice.

1) North America DLC: perfection. The best DLC including standard packs. The animal roster is iconic and diverse, from a tiny desert rodent to a huge tundra deer. Diving, climbing and burrowing animals from basically all biomes.

 

[Marvinb]

7. Arid: All of these animals are nice to have in a vaccum and definetly have a place in the game. Unfortunatley aside from the porcupine i didnt really get any of the animals i actually wanted from a deserty, scrublandy kind of theme.
The lack of diversity also really hurts my opinion of it, the majority of the animals are medium to large size ungulates, which are all pretty same-y to build for, and the fact that large desert hoofstock are pretty much the most boring animals to build for makes the lack of diversity even worse.
I did warm up to alot of the animals in this pack, but its not enought to raise it from being the lowest ranking animal pack for me.

6. SEA: Neat animals, especially now that the tapir as been reworked and the leopard has been fixed, and they do a great job of fleshing out the region. But there isnt anything here that i deem absolutely necessary to have, the only exception is ironicly enough the proboscis monkey. But thats more due the otherwise 100% lack of another large bodied, tailed monkey than the actual species.

5.Barnyard: I love that we got a petting zoo pack and the pieces are really nice, but the animal/breed choices were pretty odd at times and its what holds this alot lower than where it could have been . If it had a dwarf goat and kunekune/pot belly instead and a duck and/or rabbit in there somewhere it could have easily been in the top 5, but the way it turned out its only a middle to end of the road pack.
The fact that i was pretty fed up with ungulates ate this point made the lack of a duck and rabbit hurt even more, and doesnt help either.

4. North America: Its a near perfect pack for what its trying to be and i do wanna give it credit for that, unfortunately its just not a pack for me (for the most part). On the one hand there are the beaver, sea lion and prairie dog which were amazing and super usefull additions, but on the other hand there is the rest which i never use. Really high highs and low lows for me.

3. Eurasia: Decent pack to adress some of the underepresented regions of Eurasia, and the pack that made europe an actual region to build for. The swan is one of the best and most usefull additions they ever made and i enjoy most of the rest aswell. Bear and Saiga are something i dont really see myself using any time soon, so i really wish those were some of the many better (imo) options.

2. Grasslands: Awesome Pack, nice variety of animals, great global coverage and helped out some struggling regions at the time. Even the less requested animals of the pack were nice choices since the wildebeest and hyena kinda funtion as replacements for their pretty bad looking basegame counterparts.

1. Wetlands: I mean what can i say? Its where animal packs peaked. This is how an animal pack should be, AMAZING diversity in a taxonomic sense, but also in animal shapes and sizes, and global representation is decent aswell. Had alot of fan favorites and even the less requested ones offered something nice.
Really the only flaw i can name is that all the animals are bound to water to some extent, so you will have to incorporate a water feature for all of them. But i like building aquatic stuff, so this is more of a pro than a con for me personally.

 

[biggest_dreamer]

1. Grasslands
2. North America
3. Southeast Asia
4. Arid
5. Wetlands
6. Eurasia
7. Barnyard

no elaboration needed

 

[The_Riot22]

1. North America - about as perfect as animal representation for a continent can get.
2. Grasslands - only a half-step behind NA with terrific diversity and rep.
3. Arid - a bit controversial, but I actually like the animals in Arid a lot more than Wetlands. My main criticism is the animals are only from Africa instead of global.
4. Wetlands - a good, but not great, roster
5. Eurasia - haven't bought this one, but my criticism is similar to Arid, where I think the rep could have been better.
6. Barnyard - really want to rank this one higher, as a petting zoo style was very badly needed. But some of the choices bring this pack down.
7. SE Asia - Clouded Leopard is really the saving grace of this pack, but far as I know its still pretty buggy.

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

7. Arid: All of these animals are nice to have in a vaccum and definetly have a place in the game. Unfortunatley aside from the porcupine i didnt really get any of the animals i actually wanted from a deserty, scrublandy kind of theme.
The lack of diversity also really hurts my opinion of it, the majority of the animals are medium to large size ungulates, which are all pretty same-y to build for, and the fact that large desert hoofstock are pretty much the most boring animals to build for makes the lack of diversity even worse.
I did warm up to alot of the animals in this pack, but its not enought to raise it from being the lowest ranking animal pack for me.

6. SEA: Neat animals, especially now that the tapir as been reworked and the leopard has been fixed, and they do a great job of fleshing out the region. But there isnt anything here that i deem absolutely necessary to have, the only exception is ironicly enough the proboscis monkey. But thats more due the otherwise 100% lack of another large bodied, tailed monkey than the actual species.

5.Barnyard: I love that we got a petting zoo pack and the pieces are really nice, but the animal/breed choices were pretty odd at times and its what holds this alot lower than where it could have been . If it had a dwarf goat and kunekune/pot belly instead and a duck and/or rabbit in there somewhere it could have easily been in the top 5, but the way it turned out its only a middle to end of the road pack.
The fact that i was pretty fed up with ungulates ate this point made the lack of a duck and rabbit hurt even more, and doesnt help either.

4. North America: Its a near perfect pack for what its trying to be and i do wanna give it credit for that, unfortunately its just not a pack for me (for the most part). On the one hand there are the beaver, sea lion and prairie dog which were amazing and super usefull additions, but on the other hand there is the rest which i never use. Really high highs and low lows for me.

3. Eurasia: Decent pack to adress some of the underepresented regions of Eurasia, and the pack that made europe an actual region to build for. The swan is one of the best and most usefull additions they ever made and i enjoy most of the rest aswell. Bear and Saiga are something i dont really see myself using any time soon, so i really wish those were some of the many better (imo) options.

2. Grasslands: Awesome Pack, nice variety of animals, great global coverage and helped out some struggling regions at the time. Even the less requested animals of the pack were nice choices since the wildebeest and hyena kinda funtion as replacements for their pretty bad looking basegame counterparts.

1. Wetlands: I mean what can i say? Its where animal packs peaked. This is how an animal pack should be, AMAZING diversity in a taxonomic sense, but also in animal shapes and sizes, and global representation is decent aswell. Had alot of fan favorites and even the less requested ones offered something nice.
Really the only flaw i can name is that all the animals are bound to water to some extent, so you will have to incorporate a water feature for all of them. But i like building aquatic stuff, so this is more of a pro than a con for me personally.

I could write my own reasons but id just be parroting what Marvinb said, so + 1 to all of this

 

[Milurian]

Grassland 10/10
literally perfect covers almost every biome and continent only missing aquatic and antartica has a decent variety of animals and the most animals of any pack also butterflies are the best exhibit animal to date in terms of usability and impact on the game.

North America -9/10
did wonders for northamerican representation and added a seal lion maybe swap out the fox for a coyote or bird or something but that is honestly the packs weakest animal.

Wetlands - 9/10
Its a solid pack I just dont like wetlands so never get much use

Southeast Asia 8/10
the pack as a whole feels to niche because south east asia as a concept so we got a pack filled with almost exclusively tropical animals from the same region which dramatically reduces usability. The dhole was a weird choice since they picked the one subspecies that isnt tropical yet made it tropical probiscis monkey was fine but a weird choice and the babirusa should been anything else.

Eurasia 7/10
It was good pack all the animals excluding the sloth bear and tortoise really embodied the theming well the animals were good quality just wish there was more variety in them

Barnyard 5/10
animal choice was weird to say the least every animal had a better breed option available the donkey should of been a horse the cow should of been a regular version not mini and the alpine goat should of been a dwarf goat otherwise the scenery is great map sucks but the whole concept was good in my opinion it is the complete opposite of arid a well thought out theme and general roster but bad execution.

Arid 4/10
There is more to the term arid then north african desert and they didnt even pick a diverse set of north african animals a baboon, tortoise, desert monitor even something not traditionally desert like some grasslands or highlands animals like the rhea or aoudad would of made this pack feel like it was doing anyhting the animals were good but they fell flat because of a badly themed pack.

 

[Stygi]

1. Grasslands - pretty great choices except maybe the Hyena but great representation and coverage
2. North America - very good choices although it does entirely ignore the southern half of the continent
3. SEA - the pack has aged fairly well given the remasters several animals have gotten, mostly good choices but the Proboscis and Dhole are just ok
4. Wetlands - half of the choices were hits (Capybara, Otter, Crane, Platypus) the others were somewhat misses, we definitely could have gotten another wading bird
5. Eurasia - another half and half scenario (Wolverine, Takin, Swan, Boar) but with an overdose of ungulates, and quite a few of the animals don't fit like they feel the general theme
5. Arid - far too many ungulates, and just a total miss fire with the choices, the pack could have been global but even restricted to Africa animals like the Baboon, Crane and Secretary seemed like quite obvious inclusions
6. Barnyard - not a fan of domestics + some weird choices like the goat, also could have thrown those against petting zoos a bone with the mallard duck which feels like a missed opportunity

 

[caninesrock]

1. Southeast Asia b/c it includes:
Sun bear, Clouded leopard, Dhole, Binturong, and Giant leaf insect.
2. Grasslands b/c it includes:
Maned Wolf, Striped Hyena, and Caracal.
3. Twilight b/c it includes:
Red Fox, Raccoon, Striped Skunk, and Fruit Bats.
4. North America b/c it includes:
Arctic Fox, Cougar, and California Sea Lion.
5. Arctic b/c it includes:
Polar Bear and Arctic Wolf
6. Australia b/c it includes:
Dingo and Koala
7. Africa b/c it includes:
Fennec Fox and Meerkat
8. Aquatic b/c it includes:
Giant Otter and Grey Seal
9. Wetlands b/c it includes:
Small-clawed Otter, Capybara, Platypus, and Danube Crested Newt.
10. Eurasia b/c it includes:
Sloth Bear and Wolverine
11. Oceania b/c it includes:
Tasmanian Devil and Flying Foxes
12. South America b/c it has:
A jaguar and cool scenery.
13. Tropical b/c it has:
Fossa
14. Conservation b/c it has:
Amur Leopard and Axolotl
15. Europe b/c it has:
Eurasian Lynx and Fire Salamander
16. Barnyard (This was going to be 17 but then I realized I actually do like donkeys and sheep plus highland cows.)
17. Arid b/c it has:
Sand Cat as the only thing interesting in the entire pack.

 

[AlexSea]

7: Barnyard
Maybe I don't have a right to rank this pack at all, because I don't even own it. I have zero interest in domestic animals, and I understand it's entirely personal, but I'd also rank this pack last overall.
6: Arid
This pack should have been named the African Desert Animal Pack, because it has zero animals outside of Africa and the Middle East. Out of those animals we did get, there's some definite highlights like the African Crested Porcupine, but the lack of variety weighs it down for me.
5: Southeast Asia
They finally fixed the Malayan Tapir, so now I'm pretty comfortable with this ranking. Some excellent animals in this pack, and the only reason it's ranked where it is is because competition is so steep.
4: Eurasia
Frontier surprised me with this pack and actually made me excited to get more European animals, which is a feat in itself. The Wolverine, Takin, and Mute Swan are all great additions, and I almost wish we didn't get the Wisent because it shows how bad the American Bison looks in comparison.
3: Grasslands
This was the perfect opportunity to give us the Secretary Bird, but ignoring that, this pack's roster is superb. This pack gave us representation from almost every continent, including some animals from the oft-neglected South America and Australia.
2: Wetlands
This, right here, is the perfect example of why I love animal packs. The animal lineup is so diverse and interesting, and my only major complaint is that I wish we got a better exhibit animal. Seriously, the Danube Crested Newt is tiny, you can hardly see it.
1: North America
Before this pack North America hardly had any attention post-launch, but every single animal in this pack is wonderful. Each animal has so much love and care put into it, there isn't a bad pick in the roster, and even the American Bullfrog, which I was pretty skeptical of, quickly grew on me. For me, this is the best pack, I just wanted an Elk.

 

[TheDinoGuy]

17. Twilight Pack - This is a good pack in capturing the spirit of Halloween with its props and scenery, some good animal additions like the raccoon, wombat, striped skunk and Egyptian fruit bat which was awesome. But I was expecting more from this pack.

16. Arctic Pack - I have nothing against this pack. The roster is nice with the inclusion of polar bears and Dall sheep. Though one more animal would've been nice, but hey, a first time at something isn't always the best.

15. Arid Animal Pack - This is probably my least favorite animal pack. The roster is good, and I don't complain about the amount of ungulates as much as others. I like the inclusion of the crested porcupine, sand cat, Somali wild donkey, and desert horned viper, and I appreciate the inclusion of the addax and Dama gazelle since most of us are not familiar with those, I think.

14. Barnyard Pack - This was a pack I didn't expect. Farm animals don't interest me much, but I love the petting zoo encounters and the highland cattle since their calves are super adorable.

13. Tropical Pack - Good pack, good representation of plants and props from Southeast Asia, and some exciting additions to the animal roster like gibbons, fossa, red river hogs, and sloths.

12. South America Pack - While an improvement over the Arctic pack with some very cool animals, minus the llama, but something feels off.

11. Africa Pack - I think my deflation comes from thinking future packs would be all animal packs, but some good animal inclusions and representation of Middle East props and decorations.

10. Oceania Pack - Very nice to see more animals from this region including Tasmanian devils and kiwis. I was not expecting another bat species. I was thinking something else, but I welcome it.

9. Conservation Pack - A pack that came out of nowhere that started the livestream strategy the creators would do till the end of 2023 and some great animal inclusions like Przewalski's horse, the siamang, and the Amur leopard which blew my mind.

8. Europe Pack - I love the colorful, diverse props and decorations representing many countries in Europe, and some good animal inclusions like the Eurasian lynx, alpine ibex, European badger and fire salamander.

7. North America Pack - Granted, I'm from North America, and while it was exciting to see many diverse animals added, but it's not my favorite. I kind of wonder if that's how people from their home country feel like this when the Africa or South America Pack were out.

6. Grasslands Pack - This felt like an improvement over the Twilight Pack at the end of the year. Was very happy with the inclusion of the maned wolf, armadillos, wallabies, heck, five species of butterflies came out of nowhere. I felt like with bats and butterflies added, flying birds couldn't be far.

5. Australia Pack - A very good pack with colorful props, and some exciting animals. Honestly, I was expecting emus, but I'm good with cassowaries coming first.

4. Eurasia Pack - This was an interesting pack to end the year. The region had never crossed my mind, let alone never thought of looking more into the meaning of it. Anyway, some very cool and surprising animal inclusions from wolverines and sloth bears to takins to mute swans and Saiga antelope. The inclusion of the latter surprised me and had me realize that if any animal can be in captivity, then they might be included in the game. I won't find one here, but there are some in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

3. Aquatic Pack - This felt like a game-changer with the inclusion of swimming mechanics for the likes of penguins and otters. Very cool, and the exhibit animal then seemed a little more animated than others.

2. Southeast Asia Pack - Another game-changer with the concept of animal packs which was a big win for me. Loved many of the animals included from the sun bear, proboscis monkey, to the babirusa and the binturong, one of my favorite animals in general.

1. Wetlands Pack - The announcement teaser felt magical akin to the Prehistoric Marine Species Pack from Jurassic World Evolution 2. The inclusion of the capybara was one thing, but to have a platypus and red crowned crane added was a jaw-dropping moment. Was a bit iffy on the inclusion of the spectacled caiman since I thought we had enough crocodilians added, but a minor cringe.

 

[ScotiaMugdock]

7. Barnyard - some invaluable breeds like the Highland Cattle, Alpaca and Alpine goat but mostly animals that I never use…
6. Southeast Asia - some great animals that I honestly never really use. I did recently try to build a zoo with them but I found that I still can’t build a realistic section without 2 or 3 other packs.
5. Grasslands - some beautiful animals that slot easily into zoos. However, other than the Armadillo and Maned Wolf none of them feel that exciting, and my husband won’t tour a zoo with butterflies in them.
4. Arid - some excellent “oddballs” in the African crested porcupine and Sand cat. Despite some of the criticism, I find lots of the ungulates useful for filler and alternative African sections. Wished there was a more global outlook with at least a couple of Americas/Oceania species or even an Arabian exclusive animal.
3. Eurasia - several essential species like the Wisent, wild boar, hermann’s tortoise, mute swan, wolverine and takin.
2. North America - comes with some very useful species like the Cougar, American beaver, Black-tailed prairie dog and Arctic fox. These are useful for South American and Eurasian sections of zoos, plus actually cold-climate animals! Even the less useful species (e.g. American alligator) are regionally important and allow regional options.
1. Wetlands - contains the Capybara and Asian small-clawed otter which are two of the most important DLC animals for creating realistic (or even plausible) zoos. A very geographically diverse selection and mostly captures the diversity of wetlands with birds, reptiles and hoofed mammals!

 

[synthetase]

1. Grasslands -Striped Hyena was one of my most wanted animals! Maned Wolf is beautiful. Blue Wildebeest is a classic African mammal. Wallaby, Caracal and Armadillo are good small animals to fill in. The butterflies are beautiful as well!
2. North America -Love the adorable Arctic Fox! Introduces many traditional zoo animals. As well as animals that are thrilling to see in the wild.
3. Arid -I like how niche some of the animals are. I didn't expect Dama gazelle for example. Sand Cat is awesome addition!
4. South East Asia -same as Arid. Love the Dhole, Babirusa and Binturong
5. Wetlands -still good, but the only animal I really am excited about is the Lechwe. Capybara should have been in the South America pack imo. Although its great to have a crane.

1. Grasslands -see above
2. North America -See above
3. Southeast Asia -See above. Note: IDK why I put arid above this one when this one has Dhole/other animals I like a little better on average than what's in Arid.
4. Arid -See above
5. Barnyard -I think it was inevitable. Domestics aren't exciting though. Still it has to be high ish for the Domestic Sheep. I love Sheep because of their Biblical significance, their fluffiness, the lambs' happiness etc... I was grateful Frontier included a sheep breed. Hill Radnor is niche but it looks somewhat generic with its whiteish fur and its typical build!
6. Eurasia -The only animal I am excited about was the Sloth Bear. They are my mom's favorite zoo animal. I think they are much cooler than Lechwe hence this pack is ranked a bit better.
7. Wetlands -see above.

 

[Annie_konik]

For me:
1. Grassland (Maned Wolf, butterflies, wallaby, emu, caracal, armadillo, and an upgraded gnu, perfect)
2. Eurasia (YAY for Wisent, wolverine, swan, takin, small tortoises, and sloth bear)
3. Arid (Porcupine, Wild Ass, black rhino, and camel)
4. North America (Arctic fox, Moose, beaver, cougar)
5. Southeast Asia (Tapir, clouded leopard, binturong, leaf insect)
6. Wetlands (I really like the crane and Nile lechwe, capybaras are also cute)
7. Barnyard (still a lovely pack, especially the alpacas and donkeys; some breed choices could be better)

 

[Pteronura]

Almost perfect:
1. Grassland (gave us the maned wolf plus the 2 most common Australian species in zoos)
2. North America (all solid picks, would have been 1 if the sea lion male would have been larger than the females)

Really good:
3. Eurasia (pretty solid, but too carnivore/hoofstock heavy to be Tier 1)
4. South-east Asia (post-tapir and binturong fix) (includes 4 of my personal favorites; babirussa, clouded leopard, sun bear, binturong)
5. Wetlands (some really good ones (otter, crane, capybara) some meh (lechwe, buffalo, caiman))

Alright:
6. Arid (too hoofstock heavy. sand cat looks kinda weird. porcupine is amazing but not enough to rank it higher)
7. Barnyard (wrong breeds chosen, highland cattle too small)

For me the 2 top and 2 bottom ones were easy. I could swap around the 3 in the middle at any given time.
South-east Asia pack would be ranked bottom if they didn't fix the babirussa and tapir.