Slavic Pack

[AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall]

So very recently I have been building a zoo that roughly takes the shape of a Mercator projection of the world and in doing so I noticed something: There are very, very few animals to represent Russia, particularly the part that juts into Eastern Europe. this is not for lack of animals there, or even animals that could be easy re-skins of existing models, so below is my list for eight animals that can fill the gap between Belarus and the Bering Strait:

Baikal seal
Caspian Sea wolf
Eurasian brown bear
Forest-steppe marmot
Muskox
Tundra swan
Saiga antelope
Caucasian parsley frog (Exhibit)

In addition to that, I would hope such a pack would include an Eastern European theme for building within the park. Preferably it would be a mix of medieval-style basillica buildings with intricate details like this:

And more sleek/modern/brutalist structures like this:

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

A slavic pack actually would be really cool, but i do not agree with the animal choices, which are either clones, very rare in captivity or not even from russia/eastern europe proper (hello musk ox).
But a 4+1 would be really great to represent that region with a slavic building theme.
My proposal would be:

• The wild boar, though and iconic to european and especally slavic culture
• The domestic chicken, as the rooster is quite often depicted in easter european imagery as well
• the Saiga as its dope as hell
• and the red fox as another culturally important animal and a preadator for this pack

This mix would add to many different areas, with both more and less fancy and rare animals and even an domestic one with the chicken

 

[Doran]

My choices:
1. Eurasian Brown Bear - Scientifically and logically impossible to chose any other carnivore over eurasian brown bear in pack about russian culture. This animal is literally embodient of russia, from being national animal to memes.
2. Saiga Antelope - unique looking ungulate that used to roam Europe up to carpathian mountains in recent history.
3. Central European Wild Boar - just a boar
4. Wisent - conservation success and keystone species, biggest european animal, currently being reintroduced across european russia.
5. Russian Tortoise - cool looking steppe critter, common in captivity, would add some flavor as eurasian exhibit

Scenery based obviously on russia + new plants from siberia and caspian sea surroundings (caucas and steppes)

 

[markun]

Somehow I don’t see anything Russian themed coming out anytime soon.

There was a rumour mentioned by @Doran that the conservation pack was originally going to be an Asia pack including Russian style building pieces. Given the fact that the release ultimately included three Asian habitat animals including Przewalski’s horse and Amur leopard it strikes me as being not completely implausible.

 

[Doran]

There was a rumour mentioned by @Doran that the conservation pack was originally going to be an Asia pack including Russian style building pieces. Given the fact that the release ultimately included three Asian habitat animals including Przewalski’s horse and Amur leopard it strikes me as being not completely implausible

Nah, looking back it was shi**y leak. Amur Leopard wasnt even mentioned.

 

[Leaf Productions]

Complete with new slavsquat behavior

 

[AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall]

My choices:
1. Eurasian Brown Bear - Scientifically and logically impossible to chose any other carnivore over eurasian brown bear in pack about russian culture. This animal is literally embodient of russia, from being national animal to memes.
2. Saiga Antelope - unique looking ungulate that used to roam Europe up to carpathian mountains in recent history.
3. Central European Wild Boar - just a boar
4. Wisent - conservation success and keystone species, biggest european animal, currently being reintroduced across european russia.
5. Russian Tortoise - cool looking steppe critter, common in captivity, would add some flavor as eurasian exhibit

Scenery based obviously on russia + new plants from siberia and caspian sea surroundings (caucas and steppes)

You definitely get me with the brown bear and Saiga inclusions. I could see boars or bison swapping in for Musk ox and caspian sea wolves... I feel like the swans should stay, for similar cultural reasons as the brown bear, Swan Lake and all. And Baikal seals are just neat