I think educators can hold the butterflies (unless I remember it wrong)
The sloth could/should have been an habitat animal
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I dont think so. You might be thinking of that one Animation where one lands on a guests finger in the WE
Yay that's one another person happy with the species! Team Three-Toed!!!
I also hope they can have babies but I'm doubtful. I really want to see their animations in action, something we won't be able to see with a picture. At any rate, they wont' be flooding the market at anything but Frontier prices since they'll be through the exhibit market - not confirmed but a logical conclusion. Which means we dont' even have to make space for them in the Habitat trade center.
Never tried this myself but it's not impossible: what about placing glass panels alongside the interior path? That way, you can create "2" sloth exhibits
Since it applies to this discussion, I'll link my thoughts on the issue here. Linked is a collection of my posts on why three-toed sloths can only be properly made as exhibit animals, while two-toed sloths can be made to fit into both systems. The links include video evidence, as well as my discussion and reasoning on the subject matter.
This is why I think getting the brown-throated sloth as an exhibit animal was our only viable option. However, if we get a second sloth down the line, which would eventually be a two-toed sloth, getting it as a habitat animal would be a pleasant surprise, as this would please both camps (team habitat sloth and team exhibit sloth) and wouldn't be very immersion breaking, since two-toed sloths can barely pass as habitat.
Seeing sloths fight due to overcrowding or incorrect ratio would be strangely non realistic
I'm totally fine with the sloth species and the fact it's a walkthrough exhibit animal. If you want a big habitat, just place a few of thos WE next to each other and fill em with sloths... I can't wait to create a bigger jungle house with a part butterfly garden, a sloth walkthrough and a bat cave! That's so cool ^^
My only problem with sloths in the box is that it should have been the birds' turn for that spot.
"Once a female sloth is in heat she will wait for the males to come to her. All male sloths in the area will move through the canopy towards the female, and if more than one male responds, they will fight over mating rights. Often the aim of a sloth fight is to knock the opponent out of the tree." - from sloth conservation website
Don't need a slow-mo recap for those fights.
In contrast to the two-toed sloth fights in the videos I posted, three-toed sloth fights would indeed be slow-mo, one of the many reasons why they need to be exhibit. Three-toed sloths are slow-mo even when they are being preyed upon.
The two groups are only distant relatives (not even in the same family) and their superficial resemblance is due to convergent evolution. To put it into perspective, a housecat and a lion is in the same family. This results in two and three-toed sloths being quite different behaviorally and anatomically.
I checked and educators can't hold bats, but they can hold butterflies (they are on their shoulders):
Hopefully they can hold a sloth too
Frontier got it right imo. I’ve yet to see a sloth as a open habitat animal. Unless you were to build a tropical house with a section dedicated a sloth it would be quite unrealistic to see such a lethargic animal in a open habitat. Zt2 comes to mind in a different way. They have modded some snakes with some great animations but I will admit putting them in a tropical house and watching them move nonstop was very unrealistic to see. Sloths and snakes are very much a like in they don’t waste energy if they don’t have to. Hence the reason frontier got both right. True some snake species are more active then some but they still spend a decent amount of time doing absolutely nothing.
....This gives me an ideaI checked and educators can't hold bats, but they can hold butterflies (they are on their shoulders):
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Hopefully they can hold a sloth too
The exhibit doesn't stop you from keeping them in an open enclosure as null option is a thing for walls and ceiling.
Just like a habitat doesn't stop you from building an enclosure with a roof over it.
Exhibits and habitats can be equally realistic when it comes to their functions as enclosures, no matter the animal.
It is only a question about in which system the animal will behave the most believable.
Indeed. Not a fan of large birds (birds of prey, macaws, etc.) in exhibits, but hummingbirds or small tropical songbirds would’ve been perfect for this pack.
And I still would’ve preferred the sloth as a habitat species. Honestly anything bigger than the prairie dog I’d prefer, for customization/creative liberties, to be habitat species. The exhibit boxes really limit what we can do with the creatures in them. Additionally, the complex climbing mechanics of this game would fit a sloth well tbh. Especially now that gibbons can brachiate underneath climbing pieces. Missed opportunity..
The devs could easily tweak the behaviour settings so that the animal spends a lot of it's day hanging from trees. Heck they could even add enrichment item posts specifically designed for the sloth to cling onto.
The issue with the sloth being an exhibit animal is that it will not interact with the environment we (the players) build for it. It's an unnecessary restriction for restrictions sake. If someone wanted to make a mangrove forest for instance and keep sloths in there you can't see them interact with the environment because the sloths don't even have swimming animations. Not only that, but if for some strange reason the players wanted to trap a sloth inside a restricted box they'd be more than free to if the animal was a habitat animal. The player can easily create a confinement chamber to keep habitat animals trapped within small spaces. There is no justification for the restrictive nature of the exhibit animals being enforced and put onto species that are larger than insects, spiders or frogs. Things like the Sloth and iguanas could have and should have been habitat animals.
I can see people wanting the sloth to be a habitat animal. I’m mainly referring to what you’d see in a real zoo. Sloths 98% of the time are never going to be a full fledged open habitat animal. I suppose a zoo could have a prop tree in a supervised habitat in a real zoo and I’m sure some zoos may do this for a couple hours once in awhile. In a open habitat with real trees what’s the zookeeper going to do climb the tree to get the sloth when the zoo closes every day because it sure isn’t coming to the keeper. Sloths barely move in captivity Im yet to see my local zoos sloth active. Same with the koala. In planet zoo the koala already moves way too much. My local zoo had koalas for the summer last year and it was the same if they were up they were only looking around. For realisms sake exhibits are ideal imo.