Some suggestions on how to improve the Red Panda

[NegativeHeli]

The left picture is the Red Panda in Planet Zoo, and on the right is a real-life Red Panda. As you can see, the Red Panda is obviously too fat. It's one of my favourite animals and I hope it gets a slight remodel. Other than the face, it also needs to be programmed to spend more time in trees. In the game, it spends most of its time on the ground, which isn't how it is in real life. Red Pandas are mainly arboreal creatures.

I also suggest that there be a Red Panda with this colour variation, where their almost their whole face is white in colour. The image is there below, this is fairly common amongst Red Pandas.

@Jens Erik and @Eltanin Casciani I hope you bring up the Red Panda issue to the team, both the model and the behaviour can be improved and I hope to see that. In my opinion, the Red Panda is one of the animals that need the most fixes in the game. It's not an urgent issue that needs to be fixed immediately, but I hope to see some animals including this being fixed in the future. Thank you so much for your time spent reading this.

To everyone on the forum, please correct me if I'm wrong in any way.

 

[Karen F]

Nice colour variation indeed. I hadn't noticed they were too fat. However, they should make the bears more slim. The grizzly and Formosan bear are way too fat.

 

[SalamAnders]

I also suggest that there be a Red Panda with this colour variation, where their almost their whole face is white in colour.

It is not a color variation, there is talk about two different (sub)species of the red panda. The exact classification of it seems to be up for debate.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51632790 an article about it from last year.

Ailurus fulgens - Is the one we got in the game, also the one you will see in European Zoos
Ailurus styani - This is the typical more white faced one. Pretty sure this is the most commonly held one in America.

I think the fatness might be a result of them going for a winter fur look, but yes it might look better a bit more slim.

 

[NegativeHeli]

It is not a color variation, there is talk about two different (sub)species of the red panda. The exact classification of it seems to be up for debate.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51632790 an article about it from last year.

Ailurus fulgens - Is the one we got in the game, also the one you will see in European Zoos
Ailurus styani - This is the typical more white faced one. Pretty sure this is the most commonly held one in America.

I think the fatness might be a result of them going for a winter fur look, but yes it might look better a bit more slim.

Thanks for pointing this out, maybe the game could put "Chinese Red Panda" instead to avoid confusion? The in game one is the Chinese Red Panda

 

[XT]

Most of the arboreal animals in PZ spend way too much time on the ground. Dunno of they're ever going to adjust that, or if it's even possible.

 

[DarthQuell]

Honestly, I've watched the red pandas at the Houston Zoo, and they're always on the ground. I know in the wild they aren't, but maybe PZ is trying to recreate the fact that animals behavior changes when in captivity?