What's your top Mammal pick for each continent? (including Antarctica if you want)
What's your top Habitat Bird pick for each continent? (my personal rule of thumb is: Birds that would have a decent quality of life if their wings were amputated/clipped)
What's your top Exhibit Animal pick for each continent?
Mammals are hard. It's a contradiction in my own mind, because it comes down to a difference in what I personally desire and what I think the game actually needs. Nevertheless...
Africa: Hamadryas baboon, great white pelican*, Jackson's chameleon.
*Helmeted guineafowl is a close second but I'm still dubious about its feasibility due to the sheer tininess of the chicks.
Asia: Lion-tailed macaque*, Himalayan monal, Japanese fire-bellied newt.
*It came down to the macaque, blackbuck, or Sumatran tiger. The tiger is the one I really want, but the game needs monkeys more.
South America: Bolivian squirrel monkey, Darwin's rhea, emerald tree boa.
Central America: Geoffroy's spider monkey, American flamingo, Lake Titicaca frog.
Europe: Eurasian wildcat, white stork, scheltopusik.
Antarctica: Leopard seal*, gentoo penguin, no exhibit**.
*Rule of cool. **I'd pick the moon jelly if there was a special new exhibit to keep them in.
North America: North American porcupine*, roseate spoonbill, hellbender (the salamander).
*I genuinely do not care about North America, but I saw these guys at Edinburgh Zoo so I'd accept them as our last ever NA species.
Oceania: Tree kangaroo*, Cape Barren goose, tuatara.
*Again, don't really care one way or the other, but it's probably more important to the roster than the Australasian fur seal or the extinct thylacine, which are my other choices.
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