What animals have you never used?
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I have never used the apes / monkeys except for the capuchin and lemurs (don't really count lemurs as monkeys to be honest).
And no prairiedog either, because it's super small. No king penguin. No koala. No meerkats either, strangely, because I do like them but again, they are super small.
And no prairiedog either, because it's super small. No king penguin. No koala. No meerkats either, strangely, because I do like them but again, they are super small.
I've never had the timber wolf in a zoo. I prefer the arctic wolf.
I think I've used all of them at least a couple of times, but I gave up on the Aldabra tortoise in my newer zoos. They never seem to work in my zoos, since they are so shy and take so long to get to a place to hide when they get stressed the protesters always show up. Some of the small antelope have been issues for me too, though at least they can hide better. I like to make African Savannah type habitats with a platform for guests to go out and be surrounded by the animals and face to face with the giraffes. I've seen these in real zoos, and the gazelles etc. seem to do okay, but in the game they are constantly stressed and hiding, no matter how I set things up.
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I’ve used every animal in my continent zoos. While understanding each species requirements and what they go well with and what not. Now that I have started to work on bigger zoos, here are the animals I have no intention on using.
Hippopotamus: making a habitat for them is way too hard. Once I readjust water and land requirements, something goes wrong. Guests complain about seeing them. Even though they aren’t diving they go underwater and I have underwater viewing for them and guests don’t pursue.
Not all savannah herbivores
Polar bears: even when they lowered the size requirements, I still think it is way too big, frustrating and guests aren’t happy.
Chimps: The ratio is annoying, says a few males can be added but they constantly fight making it unbearable.
Bonobo: nothing against them I just don’t have any interest.
Himalayan brown bear: less interested
Hippopotamus: making a habitat for them is way too hard. Once I readjust water and land requirements, something goes wrong. Guests complain about seeing them. Even though they aren’t diving they go underwater and I have underwater viewing for them and guests don’t pursue.
Not all savannah herbivores
Polar bears: even when they lowered the size requirements, I still think it is way too big, frustrating and guests aren’t happy.
Chimps: The ratio is annoying, says a few males can be added but they constantly fight making it unbearable.
Bonobo: nothing against them I just don’t have any interest.
Himalayan brown bear: less interested
WAIT REALLY?????
Yes I have an arctic fox for a profile picture but I'm still yet to actually build one a habitat
seriously? like really?Yes I have an arctic fox for a profile picture but I'm still yet to actually build one a habitat
Am I really the only person here who hasn't used the arctic fox, fine my next zoo will include the arctic fox
No shame in that
. I used them briefly but no plans to ever keep them again. I like the fennec Fox more.
- American alligator
- Arctic fox
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Bonobo
- Dingo
- Emu
- Maned wolf
- Moose
- Proboscis monkey
- Red-necked wallaby
- Scimitar-horned oryx
- Siamang
- Spectacled caiman
- Striped hyena
For exhibits, I've used them all except the snakes. I did use one snake, once, briefly because it was the only way to complete the Twilight career map, but I sold it as soon as that requirement got checked off.
Arctic Fox (plans but haven’t reached yet)
Maned Wolf (new)
Malayan Tapir (planned but they need fix)
Fennec Fox (plans but haven’t reached)
Caracal (new)
Striped Hyena (new)
Have plans to use them all. (Malayan Tapir waiting till they fix it though)
Maned Wolf (new)
Malayan Tapir (planned but they need fix)
Fennec Fox (plans but haven’t reached)
Caracal (new)
Striped Hyena (new)
Have plans to use them all. (Malayan Tapir waiting till they fix it though)
I will update this. While playing some PZ yesterday and building Longview Zoo, I used the Melaneus blue morpho, the monarch, cloudless sulphur, maned wolf.
Animals that I still haven't used yet:
- Emu
- Common wombat
- Red necked wallaby
- Blue wildebeest
- Striped hyena
- Caracal
- European peacock butterfly
- Old World swallowtail
But, I have a plan. After I finish Longview Zoo, imma open New Oasis Zoo, set in New Mexico. It's gonna feature all the above left out species except the butterflies and the wildebeest
I made a nice little arctic fox house habitat, for use in temperate or warmer zoos. It was very pretty, with an arctic tundra roof, but alas the little critters kept escaping through the glass and making my guests flee in terror. I did it again, from scratch, in a different zoo, and I had the same problem. Gridded paths partially surrounding an indoor arctic fox habitat simply doesn't work for some reason. I've had a similar issue with the caimen when I tried to do an exhibit like this for them (but in a nice, heated tropical reptile house). I don't really like tundra and taiga zoos (too cold for most critters), so I haven't done much with them since.No shame in that
There are a few other critters like this--constantly escaping, or even just registering as escaped when in the middle of their habitat. I have a problem with lemurs too, but I love them so much I put up with the occasional alarm bells that ring when they are still in their habitat.
Someone mentioned preferring pygmy hippos to hippos also. The pygmy hippos are so darned cute, and they take way less space. Trivia, they are less aquatic than their larger cousins, and they are rather nocturnal. Maybe they should be in the twilight zoo.
The in-game requirements for hippo space seem much greater proportionally than what one sees in real zoos, even really good ones.
They have a nice hippo habitat at the San Diego zoo w an underwater viewing window, but it doesn't seem to be as large as they have to be for the game. I did try a hippo habitat once. Spent a lot of time building a deck out over the pool with an enclosed area with stairs down to an underwater viewing area. I spent a lot of time making the hippo underwater area look realistic with water weeds and rocks and stuff. I finally filled it with water and plopped some hippos in, and I got not enough traversable water area. Evidently, since they "walk" on the bottom of their water habitat and don't swim they won't walk over rocks or weeds. At all.
I had to take most of it out and ended up with a bunch of bare mud that looked cruddy.
Maybe that should be its own thread: habitats you spent a bunch of time on and were proud of, but they didn't end up working at all for the animals or guests.
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I have used all animals at least once, but my game still gives me fake escape for climbing animals and therefore fleeing guests and some pricy tickets, so I do no longer use animals that need climbing. And the same for swimming animals. If the need deep water or a lot of water, they are not in my zoo. Exeptions is small puddles, as they don't have a swimming animation, that makes them escape inside their habitat.
I think I've used them all at least once, but there are some I hardly ever use. The bonobo is the one that springs to mind but I think there are a couple others.
