- Southern Tamandua - Another climbing xenarthran, but not creatively constrained by having a set layout in a giant box this time, these guys would make a great and versatile addition to tropical houses and are very different from the one anteater species we have.
- Patagonian Mara - Can never have enough caviomorphs, I would add both the mara and an agouti if I could but I definitely feel that Patagonia needs the representation more.
- Geoffroy's Spider Monkey - Ideally if we only get three South American primates I'd hope for each to fill a different "size niche", and of the larger monkeys I find a spider monkey much more interesting than any other potential choice (howler monkey, saki etc) given that they brachiate and just generally move unlike other monkeys.
- Golden Lion Tamarin - Filling out the small monkey niche (capuchin is medium), I probably prefer other tamarin species like the emperor and cotton-top personally but there's little question that this is the most iconic.
- South American Coati - Charismatic as ever, this is the last essential carnivoran for me after we got the fossa this year. Other South American carnivorans like the ocelot and spectacled bear don't have as strong of an appeal to me as they do to most other people but I fully expect them to appear in a pack like this if it were to come about.
- Greater Rhea - Regardless of how similar they are to the ratites we currently have, a rhea feels essential for fleshing out the more open regions of South America. I don't really have a preference between the lesser and greater rhea, both have their advantages and disadvantages, but greater is the more popular species and the one I expect them to go with.
- Red-legged Seriema - Either the poor man's secretary bird or the better secretary bird depending on who you ask, I'm definitely in the latter group. These raptor-clawed last living relatives of the terror birds are significantly more common in zoos, at least in Europe, and are one of the key missing species from South America's tropical and subtropical grasslands in my eyes. Not in the top 100 but they deserve to be.
- Exhibit animal isn't included here but could be any cool reptile or amphibian really - green anaconda, emerald tree boa, plumed basilisk, cane toad, mata-mata, etc etc. Prefer them over another sloth
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. There are 2 out of 5 animals from NA. The Red Fox is living across the whole northern Hemisphere plus Northern Africa. The Same could be said about Aquatic that it is a SA Pack 2.0. I mean when I compare it with the Twilight Pack.
Musk Ox, walrus, snow goose, sea otter and generic exhibit animal I can't think of.
