Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
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The idea of walkthrough Bat exhibits also strikes me as a pretty significant health risk (they can harbour all sorts of diseases without showing symptoms. For Fruitbats, Hendra virus comes to mind), I would be surprised if that sort of thing exists much in the western world.
I don't know that it's a good sole type for flighted birds, not really being representative. They're also small and fast, so I'm not sure they benefit as much from colour/species variation if they're a blur a good chunk of the time. They're also dimorphic, though I would imagine that'd be ignored for all flighted birds, like it has for all exhibit species
It should be simple to animate, so I wouldn't be surprised if they went for it.
The only exception seems to be the Jamaican streamertails, though still only small groups (I'm guessing one male and a few females, as most Hummingbird males won't even tolerate females outside of breeding).
Bold of you to assume people care about realism outside zootierliste number taken out of context.
They have a bat walkthrough at Disney's Animal Kingdom
And in the rainforest at Franklin Park Zoo bats fly free overhead, I think the issue is more with the proximity.
That is true, but the potential for zoonotic diseases always exists. Even for our domestic farm animals we worry about zoonotics, sometimes things can go subclinical which can be worrying. We also worry for diseases jumping from the guests to the animals.
One good example is you can get tuberculosis from cows, which is another thing to worry about with the raw milk trend. Human guests can also give common colds and other diseases to the primates. So there is a certain balance to it.
Honestly for birds I was trying to think of a cool oddball we haven’t talked about much, and considering the shoebill is high on the list it made me think of African storks. Most people don’t want the shoebill due to its low captive presence (though it is a very popular meme animal so don’t be surprised if it gets in). So for a cool oddball substitute I bring you the saddle bill stork!
For my fellow New Englanders Franklin Park Zoo has them in the rainforest house.
For my fellow New Englanders Franklin Park Zoo has them in the rainforest house.
I would gladly take this
Well very interesting to read the conversation on Hummingbirds, didn't know they don't like to live in large groups but makes sense, so that leaves only 1 species for the Walkthrough Exhibit if we get an Americas Pack.
I would adore this stork.
You mean the Linnaeus' Two-Toed Sloth right? What's the parrot doing here?
Tbf i never really cared much about the realism thing. So is not an issue for me with the hummingbirds. I would actually love hummingbirds even more than macaws i think.
I just want Macaws to have really cool mixed enclosures. Like I want to make a section of my tropical house be just an open walkthrough rainforest area where you have Capybaras and Tortoises on the ground then look up and see Macaws and Sloths, straight out of South America itself. Hummingbirds can also do this, but they're so small they would be harder to find, meanwhile something as big and as bright as a macaw would work wonders.
These had been shared a while back, but man, these are adorable! Giving us basic versions of those signs would be amazing. It's also interesting seeing where some of the ideas for the signs started versus what we actually got when the DLC dropped.Not sure if this was already discussed, but I just discovered some concept art and looks like there was some unused animal signs in Southeast Asia pack. These would be so cool for realistic directions signs, too bad they were scrapped...
And some more unsued ones, I think only the monkey one was used? Such a shame, these are so cute.
And I will stand by this game having all sorts of fun stuff in it... But still, somehow, some very basic "modern" things are missing as far as scenery goes. A sign format like that would be so awesome!
Him and ground hornbill are my favorite bird oddballs.
And since the great part all of the most popular ground bird species are from Africa, shall we request a Birds Safari animal pack then? I would be really happy with it.
After quokka and many other species we’ve got I couldn’t care less about the captive presence
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Having macaws fly overhead while other animals meander about is cool but honestly... Implementing it in a way where they could interact with the other animals would be even better (and that's something I think a sequel would handle way better -- especially if they planned the game for it from the ground-up).
Bat walkthroughs are a pretty common feature at zoos the world over.