Ocean Park is a place I'd consider a good mix of both, you have the entrance area with a huge aquarium, Pandas, red Pandas and a few other bits, the only thing near this is a carousel which is pretty far from the animals in the entrance area, then you either take the train through the mountain, or a chairlift over the mountain to the main theme park area, which they have more aquariums and also more enclosures about, there's a big building with thick walls thats freezing inside with penguins, sealions and other animals (its very quite too, I don't think they'd be disturbed in there) the park is on a cliff side, and other animals are either higher up/lower on the mountain, its nice.
Have Frontier confirmed that, thats what they're focusing on? I think when you throw animals into the mix when you're making a series with a similar name, you're going to need to take into consideration that people are going to want to make real life parks, whether its zoo's with a few rides, or theme parks with a few animals, or a lot of animals.
What I'm getting from a lot of the responses in this thread is that people think myself and Coasterlover don't like Planet Zoo, or think that we don't like what we've seen so far from the game, which isn't the case. When I've criticized Planet Coaster in the past, I've been told I'm wrong, or that the person doesn't notice the issue I'm having (smooth coasters) or that I shouldn't play the game I "hate" which sucks because I love Planet Coaster, I wouldn't have 578 hours in game if I didn't like it. If people don't criticize these games and give feedback and go on pretending everything is fine, then that means there's never any room for improvement, or bug fixes etc, then you get certain publishers like Atari blaming "Trolls" for the way their awful game turned out.
I'm not saying throw rides into the game, I'm saying I want to make real life parks in future, much like others have made real life parks in Planet Coaster, much like Frontier have done re-creating real life coasters, Also the whole "animal welfare" whats that got to do with whether theme parks should be part of Zoo's or not? if anything, that'd be more in depth simulation for people because people would have to be smart and place rides away from animals, it's like saying "Don't a certain animal in game because this animal doesn't like that animal and this game is about animal welfare"