The Oceania Roster

[zoomaster1994]

Tasmanian devil, NI brown kiwi and the Goodfellows tree kangaroo have a decent to high chance of getting into the game.

Others animals, like the echidna is a nice little extra and as for the penguins and other animals; I feel like the rockhopper is more interesting. Colorful crest, fun animations and a throwback to ZT2. Perentie is cool, but not really required and there are more interesting reptiles, I think. I think we have plenty of kangaroos. The yellow-footed would be nice, but not really required I think.

But this is all my personal view on it though. I feel like we have the best possible aussie animals as of yet. but we must have the kiwi!

 

[Veah]

Apart from all those beautiful animals from Australia and New Zealand, I would love some animals from some other parts of Oceania like Polynesia or Micronesia.
With the current roster limitations, my 2 best options would be the kagu (flightless bird, maybe walkthrough?), some sea turtle (no true aquarium behaviours required), and one of New Caledonia gecko species (classical jungle exhibit).

 

[Pinguin]

Tasmanian Devil and Kiwi are a must I think. Maybe Short-beaked Echidna and Tree Kangaroo as bonus...

 

[Existentialist Knight]

I am honestly surprised how settled everybody is on that Tasmanian Devil, Kiwi and Tree kangorou are the absolute "must-haves", and constitute the majority for every proposed "islands DLC" roster.
The Oceanian roster was significantly improved this year, albeit with a focus on australia, and it received most of it's animals popular in international zoo collections. That's why I, personally, would actually favour some oddball type species, like the echidna (small animals are always welcome to me to fill up sections), the lace monitor (arboreal, thereby quite different from others - the emerald tree monitor would also be an interesting alternative) and the quoll (quite different from the other marsupials in the game).

 

[Captain Callum]

I am honestly surprised how settled everybody is on that Tasmanian Devil, Kiwi and Tree kangorou are the absolute "must-haves", and constitute the majority for every proposed "islands DLC" roster.

Well I am one of the few who hates the idea of such a heavy Oceania roster for an island dlc but yeah the majority seems to favour Oceania for some reason I guess. I would much rather places like Madagascar, sub Antarctica/arctic islands and Carribbean get love instead but
(Yes I know this is the Oceania thread, so likely walking on thin ice)

 

[Marvinb]

Well I am one of the few who hates the idea of such a heavy Oceania roster for an island dlc but yeah the majority seems to favour Oceania for some reason I guess. I would much rather places like Madagascar, sub Antarctica/arctic islands and Carribbean get love instead but
(Yes I know this is the Oceania thread, so likely walking on thin ice)

I think its not that everone whats a islands dlc to be oceania heavy specificly, its more that TD,TK, kiwi and fossa are the most popular animals that would suite a islands dlc, and 3 of them just happen to come from oceania

 

[abigenius]

I could also argue that the Eastern grey kangaroo has a much better chance of making it in than any of the top three species, since Frontier does love to make reskins/clones/insert-word-here.

Personally i don't think so, the "only" reskin we has was the Malayan tapir but since that we haven't received more resknis anymore, the "similar" animals always are very different to the existing counterpart or at least they have a different locomotion to the "original"

So it's a such lie say that frontier loves the reskins or even the clones

And finally, personally i don't have any problems with the "clones" because always they add variety and that is key to a zoo game IMO

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Ahem, cool animal allert that no one has mentioned yet:
An animal thats from one of the unrepresented oceanian archipelagos, thats both common in the EAZA, AZA and the pet trade, a new (habitat) taxa, arboreal, has a head body measure ment of 35 cm, 5 more then the largest meercats, 40 cm more tail, making the whole thing around 75 cm long on average, good bit larger then the largest around 54 cm long meercats and its hella cute.

The Solomon Islands Skink is found in 64 EAZA zoos, with atleast 10 big american zoos keeping them according to the first side of google if you google them and zoo, with the philadelphia zoo having a long history of breeding them.
Besides being cute and common in captivity, they are also herbivores and form circuli aka reptile social groups where the individuals frequently interact with each other, something quite rare among reptiles.
So yes i like them, very cute, more habitat lizards pls frontier thank you

 

[NZFanatic]

Personally i don't think so, the "only" reskin we has was the Malayan tapir but since that we haven't received more resknis anymore, the "similar" animals always are very different to the existing counterpart or at least they have a different locomotion to the "original"

So it's a such lie say that frontier loves the reskins or even the clones

And finally, personally i don't have any problems with the "clones" because always they add variety and that is key to a zoo game IMO

I don't think you understand what I'm talking about.

Every pack has animals that were built out of an existing rig with limited changes (Arctic wolf, polar bear, jaguar, dingo, dward caiman, and so on); this is what I'm referring to by "reskin/clone/insert-word-here". It's not a "lie" (that's unnecessarily charged language, by the way) to say Frontier loves these sorts of animals, because they represent the most economical option when creating new species. I mean, in the Grasslands Pack we got the blue wildebeest (black wildebeest), caracal (Eurasian lynx), red-necked wallaby (red kangaroo), emu (ostrich/cassowary), striped hyena (spotted hyena), and maned wolf (pick a canine); the only brand new rig we got was the armadillo.

That isn't a bad thing, nor did I even imply that it was; it's just a statement of fact. All these animals have differences from their 'base', including new animations in many cases, to varying degrees, but it's obviously less effort to start with an existing digital skeleton than to build a whole new one. That's why every pack is so heavy on these sorts of animals (and also why many animals that deserved a brand new rig, such as the orangutan, were built out of an unsuitable existing rig (for the orangutan, this was the gorilla/chimpanzee).

 

[BananaLeech]

I know this will come off as heresy but I find it odd that people put Tasmanian Devils on a higher pedestal than Echidnas. I’d consider them both as important.

 

[NZFanatic]

I know this will come off as heresy but I find it odd that people put Tasmanian Devils on a higher pedestal than Echidnas. I’d consider them both as important.

IMO "people" don't do anything. We all have our own reasons for wanting what we want. I put the Tasmanian devil higher than the echidna for one simple reason; I've never seen an echidna, but I can go down to my local zoo right now and see Tasmanian devils.

 

[Chuditch]

I know this will come off as heresy but I find it odd that people put Tasmanian Devils on a higher pedestal than Echidnas. I’d consider them both as important.

Echidnas have been rising on my wishlist and have recently surpassed the Goodfellow’s tree kangaroo in how much I want them, which means they’re now my 2nd most wanted animal, after the devil (which I place higher just because I personally like them a little more, although echidnas are also some of my favourite animals). I consider them to be the two most important missing habitat animals for building a realistic zoo set in Australia and I really hope we see both of them, although I only have much confidence in the devil.

 

[biggest_dreamer]

I know this will come off as heresy but I find it odd that people put Tasmanian Devils on a higher pedestal than Echidnas. I’d consider them both as important.

Preferences are preferences and that's fine, but I've also been a bit perplexed as to why the devil is such an overwhelming fave. It seems to me that echidnas are a bit more common in international collections, although neither of them are very common, certainly not enough so to justify the devil's popularity just on the basis of real zoo presence. And personally, I've just always found echidnas to be super neat, more so than devils. I would've expected them to be comparably popular at this stage, but that's obviously not the case. And I want to stress, I'm sure everyone has their reasons for liking the devil, and those reasons are by nature perfectly valid. It's just lost on me, is all.

Personally, my Oceania habitat species priority list would look like this:

1. Matschie's tree kangaroo
2. Short-beaked echidna
3. Black swan
4. grey kangaroo species
5. North Island brown kiwi
6. Southern hairy-nosed wombat
7. Tasmanian devil

Basically just prioritizing what I've personally seen, and prioritizing favorites among those. Kiwi beats out wombat for sheer novelty value.

 

[NachoB]

My list:

Must:

• Tasmanian Devil
• Kiwi
• Short beaked echidna
• Tree kangaroo
• Tuatara (E)

This are the ones that i need to make the Ocenian roster trully complete for the game.

Really want:

• Yellow footed rock wallaby
• Southern rockhopper penguin
• Quokka
• Little blue penguin
• Black swan
• Australian pelican
• Perentie
• Thorny devil (E)
• Mulga snake (E)
• Red bellied black snake (E)
• Inland taipan (E)
• Bearded dragon (E)
• Australian green tree frog (E)
• Sugar gliders (WE?)
• Frilled lizard
• Numbat
• Tiger quoll

Animals i can live without and really don't care about:

• Hairy nosed wombat
• Long beaked echidna
• Grey kangaroo

WE with birds like lorekeets would be nice.