The "Big Six" animal requests -difficult choices as the wraps up

[bird-watcher-91]

The shoebill is at the top of my habitat bird wishlist. How would you feel about that?

I've only seen one pair of shoebills in my life at Zoo Tampa, and they were in a large aviary with black-bellied whistling-ducks, Cape teals, and African spoonbills. I wanted to show a picture I took of their wings out. They're the only zoo in the US that has had success hatching and raising them.

When I think of habitat birds, I often associate it with birds that are either flightless or whose wings are either regularly clips or pinioned (like waterfowls, flamingos, cranes, storks, pelicans, the secretarybird, and ground-hornbills). In the two zoos here in the US (the other being Dallas World Aquarium) that keep shoebills, they gave their own aviaries and their flight feathers and wings are left intact.

I would want to see the shoebill in the game as an aviary bird, not as a habitat animal because they are so rare and a valuable asset to not give them the usual (and rather inhumane) treatment of pinioning them like other large species.

Whenever they can rig flying in the game, it will be much cooler to see any of the existing birds in flight.

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

We have been getting a lot of obscure animals in every DLC. If you don't know what the secretary bird or the coati are (or even the baboon) then it is no different for You for things like the binturong, dhole, siamang, dama gazelle, dwarf caiman, lechwe, maned wolf, fossa, babirusa, quokka, water monitor, saiga, etc.

Fortunally one of the strong points of the game is making animals known for the general audience.

What i mean to say is that not being a big name hasn't stop Frontier from making packs with them and even featuring them as the cover flagship animal.

and these six have been in the top of the metawishlist for a long time.

Makes sense, but you simply can't pick what you don't know, so there is that, too.

 

[SuzieSky]

The first two are practically tied for me. I have a hard time imagining the game complete without them.

1. Tree Kangaroo: When I was first going through the meta-wishlist to see which animals were popular, I looked up this one because I didn't know what it was. As soon as I saw it, I really wanted to see them. I've never seen one in real life, but they would be a very neat addition to the game.
2. Coati: I've seen them in real life. They would be very useful for SA sections, makes me want to put it in first. I would love to see them, but the tree kangaroo is probably my personal favorite option? I don't know.
3. Hamadryas Baboon: They kind of scare me, but baboons are an ABC animal. An arid primate would be something different to build for.
4. Secretary Bird: They're a nice option for an African bird, but there are some other good ones.
5. Walrus: Ever since I heard how they trim their tusks in captivity, I haven't wanted them as much. They're a good ABC animal though.
6. Musk Ox: They're a cool thing for the tundra, which doesn't have much else to offer. They would boost the usefullness of the arctic wolf a bit.