Did I hear (mildy questionable) trapping of herring gulls. I will get my revenge
The weirdest packages you can come up with
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Unrelated but that reminds me of the cutest thing a kid has ever asked me (I’m a tour guide): Do giraffes need to go to the hair dresser?
When I said they didn’t she was relieved and said that’s good because giraffes are so big, it would be way too hard for the hairdresser to reach its head
Wow, that sounds like a cool job (the tour guide sounds cool, tooUnrelated but that reminds me of the cutest thing a kid has ever asked me (I’m a tour guide): Do giraffes need to go to the hair dresser?
When I said they didn’t she was relieved and said that’s good because giraffes are so big, it would be way too hard for the hairdresser to reach its head
)...Oh man, imagine a zoo salon for the animals
...
I've had another idea - the Celestial Bodies Pack, with animals named after features in space or with these features incidentally in their name.
1. Moonrat - Despite looking like a white rat, it is actually a Southeast Asian spineless hedgehog. Instead of spines, it defends itself by producing a smell like rotting garlic. Although I don't think they are kept currently, they have been kept successfully in zoos in the past.
2. Sunbittern - A South American ground-dwelling bird, that lives in rainforests and habitats near water. It uses its wings, with large eye-spots, as a warning against rivals and predators. They can be kept in mixed exhibits with other smaller rainforest species such as monkeys, anteaters, sloths, agoutis, tortoises and other birds.
3. Burmese star tortoise - A critically endangered Asian tortoise that lives in dry forests and grasslands. They are kept in a number of zoos worldwide and are being successfully bred in captivity. They can live in outdoor enclosures.
4. Red giant flying squirrel - A cat-sized squirrel that can glide up to 150m; it could be possible to make them as a habitat animal, simply extending the jump distances between areas on a climbing frame and making them glide instead. They have been kept very recently, including in a walkthrough display at Singapore Night Safari.
Exhibit. Comet - A tropical coral reef fish from Southeast Asia, which is quite predatory and so can be kept by itself. They are one of the reef fish that is easiest to breed in captivity.
Scenery would include various sun, moon, stars and planets models and outlines, telescopes, small decorative pieces like notebooks and foliage would include plants with planets in their names, like the Venus flytrap and Neptune grass.
1. Moonrat - Despite looking like a white rat, it is actually a Southeast Asian spineless hedgehog. Instead of spines, it defends itself by producing a smell like rotting garlic. Although I don't think they are kept currently, they have been kept successfully in zoos in the past.
2. Sunbittern - A South American ground-dwelling bird, that lives in rainforests and habitats near water. It uses its wings, with large eye-spots, as a warning against rivals and predators. They can be kept in mixed exhibits with other smaller rainforest species such as monkeys, anteaters, sloths, agoutis, tortoises and other birds.
3. Burmese star tortoise - A critically endangered Asian tortoise that lives in dry forests and grasslands. They are kept in a number of zoos worldwide and are being successfully bred in captivity. They can live in outdoor enclosures.
4. Red giant flying squirrel - A cat-sized squirrel that can glide up to 150m; it could be possible to make them as a habitat animal, simply extending the jump distances between areas on a climbing frame and making them glide instead. They have been kept very recently, including in a walkthrough display at Singapore Night Safari.
Exhibit. Comet - A tropical coral reef fish from Southeast Asia, which is quite predatory and so can be kept by itself. They are one of the reef fish that is easiest to breed in captivity.
Scenery would include various sun, moon, stars and planets models and outlines, telescopes, small decorative pieces like notebooks and foliage would include plants with planets in their names, like the Venus flytrap and Neptune grass.
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Sorry if I'm being too curious but are you a tour guide in a zoo? That sounds like a dream job ! By the way, I discovered your YouTube videos not long ago and I'm really enjoying them, especially the cliffside zoo. Love your style. Very inspiring.Unrelated but that reminds me of the cutest thing a kid has ever asked me (I’m a tour guide): Do giraffes need to go to the hair dresser?
When I said they didn’t she was relieved and said that’s good because giraffes are so big, it would be way too hard for the hairdresser to reach its head
Another idea for an annoying pack:
Middle east pack WITHOUT a dromedary camel and baboon
1. golden jackal
2. Arabian leopard
3. any desert gazelle that is not kept in captivity
4. Arabian wolf
5. destert locust (Exhibit)
Jokes on you , that's still a great pack
Wow, that sounds like a cool job (the tour guide sounds cool, too
Oh man, imagine a zoo salon for the animals
There is this person that has a dog salon and posts tik toks of their washing and grooming sessions with different dogs - So I'm imagining it like "Hi guys, so today we gave a bath to Sarah, she's a 5 year old Grizzly bear and she's been the sweetest!"
Aww thank you very much!! Im glad you like them
And yes I work part time as a tour guide, since I'm in uni at the same time, and its such a cool job!! Although working with kids and (grumpy adult) customers of course has it's stressful moments, it's really all forgiven when you're one of the first to see new baby animals 
In german there are so many of those. Common names for animal species in german are really lazy there, Oftentimes they are just vague descriptions. Ill give you a little taste of them
Ant-bear = anteater
Ant-hedgehog = echidna
Lazy animal = sloth
Finger animal = aye aye
Belt animal = armadillo
Earth piglet = aardvark
Washing bear = raccoon
Stink animal = skunk
Glutton = wolverine
Flapping mouse = bat
River horse = hippo
Shield toad = turtle
Bill animal = platypus
Spiny pig = porcupine
And the rough Translation of the german name for meerkats is "little man of the earth/dirt"
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(now I wanted to do a weird pack too lol!)
Your animals still have the same old brownish-grey coat?! LAME! Let’s do a rainbow pack full of colourful options! I want my zoo to look like a paint bucket!
1. Mandarin Duck
2. Golden snub nosed monkey
Alternative: Golden Lion Tamarin
3. (Dwarf?) Rabbit
(so many coat variations!)
3. Mustang OR American paint horse
(same here and the pack needed a big one lol)
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4. Texas Longhorn
(Mustang Alternative(?))
5. Scarlet Ibis
Alternative 1: Little Blue Penguin
Alternative 2: Roseate Spoonbill
EX: Chameleon (the king of colors!)
EX alternatives: orchid mantis, any colorful crustacean (my personal fav: halloween moon crab), sea slugs, starfish
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WE: basically many many birds lol
Personal favorites + obvious picks: Keel-Billed Toucan, (scarlet) macaws, budgies, pink-necked green pigeon
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WE alternative: Chinese Moon Moth / Rose Maple Moth
Scenery:
Comes with a rainbow FX, new recolorable flowers and blooming trees. Adds a new overwhelmingly eclectic candy stall for your guest and a bouncy castle (as an easter egg, if you place it in a fox enclosure it'll jump on it too)
The new loading screen is a chameleon adjusting to the PZ logo
(((A super weird secret easter egg challenge to unlock a unicorn (just using the mustang as a base) just for s and giggles, nod to the weirdness of zoo tycoon 1 mermaid statue easter egg - I'm only half joking)))
Honorable mentions of course to the mandrill, flamingo, peacock and African wild dog, who’d obviously make the pack lol
Your animals still have the same old brownish-grey coat?! LAME! Let’s do a rainbow pack full of colourful options! I want my zoo to look like a paint bucket!
1. Mandarin Duck
2. Golden snub nosed monkey
Alternative: Golden Lion Tamarin
3. (Dwarf?) Rabbit
(so many coat variations!)
3. Mustang OR American paint horse
(same here and the pack needed a big one lol)
4. Texas Longhorn
(Mustang Alternative(?))
5. Scarlet Ibis
Alternative 1: Little Blue Penguin
Alternative 2: Roseate Spoonbill
EX: Chameleon (the king of colors!)
EX alternatives: orchid mantis, any colorful crustacean (my personal fav: halloween moon crab), sea slugs, starfish
WE: basically many many birds lol
Personal favorites + obvious picks: Keel-Billed Toucan, (scarlet) macaws, budgies, pink-necked green pigeon
WE alternative: Chinese Moon Moth / Rose Maple Moth
Scenery:
Comes with a rainbow FX, new recolorable flowers and blooming trees. Adds a new overwhelmingly eclectic candy stall for your guest and a bouncy castle (as an easter egg, if you place it in a fox enclosure it'll jump on it too
)The new loading screen is a chameleon adjusting to the PZ logo
(((A super weird secret easter egg challenge to unlock a unicorn (just using the mustang as a base) just for s and giggles, nod to the weirdness of zoo tycoon 1 mermaid statue easter egg - I'm only half joking)))
Honorable mentions of course to the mandrill, flamingo, peacock and African wild dog, who’d obviously make the pack lol
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In german there are so many of those. Common names for animal species in german are really lazy there, Oftentimes they are just vague descriptions. Ill give you a little taste of them
Ant-bear = anteater
Ant-hedgehog = echidna
Lazy animal = sloth
Finger animal = aye aye
Belt animal = armadillo
Earth piglet = aardvark
Washing bear = raccoon
Stink animal = skunk
Glutton = wolverine
Flapping mouse = bat
River horse = hippo
Shield toad = turtle
Bill animal = platypus
Spiny pig = porcupine
And the rough Translation of the german name for meerkats is "little man of the earth/dirt"
I think about this so often lol
Basically Germans make farm animals out of 50% of animals lol
I want to add:
sea cow = manatee
little sea pig = guinea pig
(cuddle animal = plushie
)Yeah and for some it really makes no sense like. Like sloths being lazy animals sure i can see that, but porcupine? A pig isnt really what comes to mind firstI think about this so often lol
Basically Germans make farm animals out of 50% of animals lol
I want to add:
sea cow = manatee
little sea pig = guinea pig
(cuddle animal = plushie
Same in Spanish. For example:In german there are so many of those. Common names for animal species in german are really lazy there, Oftentimes they are just vague descriptions. Ill give you a little taste of them
Ant-bear = anteater
Ant-hedgehog = echidna
Lazy animal = sloth
Finger animal = aye aye
Belt animal = armadillo
Earth piglet = aardvark
Washing bear = raccoon
Stink animal = skunk
Glutton = wolverine
Flapping mouse = bat
River horse = hippo
Shield toad = turtle
Bill animal = platypus
Spiny pig = porcupine
And the rough Translation of the german name for meerkats is "little man of the earth/dirt"
- Porcupine - puercoespin - spined pig
- Anteater - oso hormiguero - ant beat
- Sloth - perezoso - lazy
- Armadillo - armadillo - armored one
- Platypus - ornitorrinco - comes from Ornithorhynchus, which essentially means bird nose
- Meerkat - suricata - suricata genus name
Okay another one lol
Chonky pack for the roundest of bois
(How did I base this off a meme and got a pack that I’d actually be super happy about?!)
1. Walrus
2. Vietnamese Pot Bellied Big
3.Turkey
4. Musk Ox
Alternative 1: Yak
Alternative 2: Scottish Highland Cow
5. Pallas Cat
6. Manatee
(a bit of a wildcard lol)
7. Leatherback Sea Turtle
(pretty sure its not really kept in zoos, but just for the sake of it (human for scale lol))
Chinchilla (WE?)
Ex: Pufferfish
(no, I don't care that we don't have any other fish, he belongs here)
Free updates comes with big, puffy warm jackets for your guests so they stop showing up to the Tundra in a T-shirt lol
Chonky pack for the roundest of bois
(How did I base this off a meme and got a pack that I’d actually be super happy about?!)
1. Walrus
2. Vietnamese Pot Bellied Big
3.Turkey
4. Musk Ox
Alternative 1: Yak
Alternative 2: Scottish Highland Cow
5. Pallas Cat
6. Manatee
(a bit of a wildcard lol)
7. Leatherback Sea Turtle
(pretty sure its not really kept in zoos, but just for the sake of it (human for scale lol))
Chinchilla (WE?)
Ex: Pufferfish
(no, I don't care that we don't have any other fish, he belongs here)
Free updates comes with big, puffy warm jackets for your guests so they stop showing up to the Tundra in a T-shirt lol
Fun topic! Ok I give you the 'Fruity animal pack'. Not in a realistic format but this would really please so many players:
Edit: more exotics added to the fruit salad
- Cherry-crowned Mangabey
- Pademelon
- Reichenow's Orange-breasted Fig Parrot
- Kiwi
- Mandarin Duck
- Appleyard Duck
- Peach-faced Lovebird
- Banana Frog (E)
- Strawberry Poison Frog (E)
- Samango Monkey
- Coconut Crab
Edit: more exotics added to the fruit salad
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