Unpopular Animal You Really Want

My favorit is this dude, haha 😅

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Golden headed lion
 
Inspired by @NZFanatic's Unpopular Pack You'd Buy thread, what's an animal that you absolutely love and want in the game but it likely would be looked down on.

I personally have 3:

  • Red fox - personally, I like the gray fox better, but I feel like the red is more likely. The issue, though, is that many don't want another canine, let alone another fox, but personally, I'd welcome the rusty red dog with its innumerable color variations (especially the silver fox mutation)
  • Coquerel's sifaka - while very, very different than the 3 "true" lemurs we have in-game, and moving completely different, I'm sure many players will say "NO" to a 4th lemurs. Also my favorite primate
  • Greater rhea - Maybe controversial, but I do like rheas, 1 because it'll flesh out SA, 2 because my paternal family is from Argentina. Unfortunately, the fiasco we had with the cassowary (which I love the animal, by the way), if we got this, especially before the emu (if we get an emu), then this animal will probably be hated
Honestly for me I would love the South China Tiger with the chance of being born as a Maltese Mutation!
But other than that...
1. Red-Rumped Agouti's
2. Northern Tamandua
3. Yellow Spotted Monitor!
 
Cetaceans! I know people don’t want them for a multitude of reasons but I really think it would be cool to build for them and see frontiers version of them
 
The golden lion tamarin is a rare splash of color between the primates, which makes it and the also quite colorful lar gibbons much more desireable compared to other black, grey and white monkeys.
Atleast thats how i see it
That's why i want things like the golden snub nosed monkey, golden pheasant and mandarin duck, over something like a baboon, a turkey or a mallard duck (even though the last one kind of colorful as well but not as visually striking as a mandarin).

The other primates i want are unique in someway despite not being colorful: the howler monkey (vocalizations, SA rep), spider monkey (locomotion, hiperprehensile tail), mantled guereza (the mantle, african tropical monkey since we have none), gelada baboon (lives in mountains, colder climate, more interesting looking than the hamadryas imo), red flanked douc (weird looks, color, more asian primates) and lion tailed macaque (unique look, finally will give us an Indian primate).

Some are in my wishlist, some aren't, but mainly because of other priorities.
 
That's why i want things like the golden snub nosed monkey, golden pheasant and mandarin duck, over something like a baboon, a turkey or a mallard duck (even though the last one kind of colorful as well but not as visually striking as a mandarin).

The other primates i want are unique in someway despite not being colorful: the howler monkey (vocalizations, SA rep), spider monkey (locomotion, hiperprehensile tail), mantled guereza (the mantle, african tropical monkey since we have none), gelada baboon (lives in mountains, colder climate, more interesting looking than the hamadryas imo), red flanked douc (weird looks, color, more asian primates) and lion tailed macaque (unique look, finally will give us an Indian primate).

Some are in my wishlist, some aren't, but mainly because of other priorities.
Golden Snub Nosed Monkey! YES!
 
Just found out that there is actually a zoo in Indonesia that keeps otter civets - one of the oddest-looking of all carnivores - magnificently bedecked in the whisker department, with a body shape quite unlike any other civet and said to catch prey by lunging from the water like a crocodile (which is why its eyes, ears and nose are all at the top of the head). Although I think its arrival in the game would be incredibly unlikely, I would still love to see them.

 
Habitat:

Nocturnal Curassow
Egyptian Goose
Ader's Duiker
Grey Rhebok
Four-Horned Antelope
Java Peafowl
Suni
Northern Giant Cloud Rat
Green Junglefowl
Wattled Brushturkey
Germain's Peacock-Pheasant
Clark's Grebe
Yellow-Bellied Weasel
Blue Korhaan

Exhibit:

Electric Blue Gecko
Red Tegu
Bearded Pygmy Chameleon
Rough-Scaled Bush Viper
Malaysian Horned Frog
Malagsy Leaf-Nosed Snake

Aviary:

Black Baza
Red Fan Parrot
Livingstone's Turaco
Bannerman's Turaco
Purple-Crested Turaco
Subdesert Mesite
Blue-Headed Quail Dove
Lesser Yellow-Headed Vulture
Horned Parakeet
 
I want the Siberian Weasel, also known as Kolonok or its much cooler german name of fire weasel.
Just take a look at it and you know why it has this pretty badass name, as its coat ranges from orange to gold.
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My first post here was about how much id love the european polecat in the game, so it isnt surprising that this little golden fellow stole my heart.
With 17 EAZA holdings and a steady growth in the European Zoo population, these guys will hopefully become even more common in the EAZA.

They also have quite the large range, across most if eastern and northern asia in fact, an area currently lacking small animals.
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TDLR I love myself some Weasel, Polecat or any small mustelid
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Horseshoe crabs! 😍
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Also the Giant Pacific Isopod!!
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Japanese Giant Salamander!!
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I realized that these would be only possible if we had aquariums but oh well I am still hopeful.
 
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