What did you do in Planet Zoo today?

[Firestar97]

Usually reindeers are kept away from long grass, because they easily get all kinds of diseases from tick bites, if they are in zoos just a bit further south than their natural range. If I remember right. Nice enclosure by the way!

Thanks for the important Information. I'll take this into Consideration when I build my next Reindeer Enclosure.
Another Reindeer Funfact: They need to eat Lichen to stay healthy. Because of that I'll always place Reindeer Lichen in their Feeding Trough

 

[NZFanatic]

I was finally able to get some stuff done today, and not a moment too soon with the new pack dropping on Wednesday (since I'm a day ahead of just about everyone else, I won't get it until the morning of the 9th). Banged out an entrance, administration building, food court and toilet block (basically an entrance plaza). Tonight I'm going to do the staff facilities (I tend to do a big quarantine warehouse and a medical centre) and then a wolf habitat (using the timber wolf as the Eurasian wolf) and then I should be ready to implement some of the new features of the Aquatic Pack.

 

[Fini]

Today I build the area for the Warthogs. It feel so empty, maybe i add another species

Spoiler: Warthogs

 

[Swjosdotschka]

I have hit a terrible creative block.

I feel ya. Was like that for me for weeks. I blame my other creative hobbies, 2020 stress and my dammed "World of sielence" in Unity, that I didn't know how to sort.
My block seemed to loosen after I saw the seal and now I lay down a plan of where which animal will go again.

Maybe it was a change of perspective or the fact that I have something else to do now, instead of only things I need to do but am not looking forward to.

Edit: Parallel posting, took me forever to hit send. Glad your block lifted as well @NZFanatic

 

[Lea_G]

Today I build the area for the Warthogs. It feel so empty, maybe i add another species

They go well together with many of the savannah animals, I like to keep them with aardvarks. You might also add some water, maybe? They like to swim and that looks really cute.

I kind of finished my Australian area with kangaroos, koalas and cassowaries. On the large platform above the kangaroos, I want to install the new education feature soon.

I was then wondering how to connect this area with the other "loose end" of the zoo. And i decided that the small panda will work just fine! Although I don't know yet how to make the rest of the path (on the left) interesting for the visitors. Hopefully, I can finish the habitat this evening.

Edit: Well, I considered this to be a "smaller" habitat. Not quite! I really underestimated how vast this are is, and how tiny the pandas are. I added three

 

[Emma20]

I made a new habitat for Japanese Macaques. I'm really happy with it, I think it looks awesome but I haven't added the macaques yet so hopefully they will like it too...

 

[iloveyourzoos]

Cleared a lot of animals out of my existing zoos, so that I won't get overcrowding notifications (and to build up credits so I can adopt penguins, seals, otters, and caimans)
Then got the number of animals in my trade center down from way over 50 that had been in there, to 30 now, with another 5 that I'm still trying to sell -- a jaguar and 4 somewhat older (but still fertile) siberian tigers. (Again, in preparation for an adopting spree for the new dlc).
Laid the basic ground work for Splashzone Aquatic Park in preparation for Tuesday. Starts with a massive lake area (because: Water!), and got in nile monitors, jaguars, red eyed tree frogs, and a drink stand to give the guests something to do while I build the main attractions around the new stuff.
Probably built it a little faster than I should have, and so the financial balance isn't too great yet. But I wanted to have something in place in preparation for Tuesday, and knew that I might not have much time to play tomorrow.
Currently the monitors and jaguars share opposite ends of a rather large entrance lake, so I'll have to see if that will still work with the new water temperature regulators.
Will definitely be putting otters and caimans in close the jaguars. Right now I think the otters may share the lake (with appropriate barriers, of course), but I'll have to see their requirement once we get those.

 

[random goat]

@markun, @Fini, @Lea_G I really like your creations.

That reindeer habitat is lovely and very realistic.

 

[Fini]

@markun, @Fini, @Lea_G I really like your creations.

Awwww! Thank you so much, i really really like your work. You build absolutly realistic stuff! (save some screens from you on my desktop for inspiration!)

Today, after work, i will add a little river with a pool for the warthogs, thank you @Lea_G for the inspiration. And maybe, i add flamingos there, if its fit. (wish we have more birds)
I think about the Aadvark too, but they are Night animals and fit better in a Nighthouse

It looks so much better now ❤ ...but i wish the water would be muddier for the Warthogs

Spoiler: Aunt Edit

 

[random goat]

That looks brilliant. For muddier water I guess you'll have to avoid placing water treatment plants nearby (plus turning welfare off to avoid sanitation problems).

Today I finished the entrance of my zoo - Reserva Biológica Alquife-. The entrance area and the corrugated building in the backstage area are the latest additions to the zoo (the old entrance is somewhere else). So what I'm showing is really the latest expansion, which was possible to achieve after a significant influx of money thanks to the zoo's great success and reputation in a number of conservation programs. The rest of the zoo is on the low-budget profile.

Red rocks are reminiscent of the iron mining activities that were historically done in the area until not too long ago.

Just past the entrance, there is a pond which should display the Spanish pond turtle and a couple of duck species. Flamingoes are taking their spots in this case.

Spoiler:

 

[GGG2021]

Preparing entrances for the Aquatic DLC extravaganza's - Just playing really

Hi Random goat - your first picture above is so cool - you have created an amazing area and love the castle! It reminds me of desert areas in Iran, or other suitably dry environ's - hope to see more . . .

[Secret message to Frontier - please include more transport options - like these . . . ]

And refurb with more interior

 

[iloveyourzoos]

Flamingos to the Rescue!

As predicted, I built my dlc prep zoo, Splashzone Aquatic Park, a little too quickly and a little too spread out at the entrance. I was losing money big time, couldn't get guests to stay, and couldn't build anything to fix it while in the red with just nile monitors, jaguars and red eyed tree frogs. Finally got just enough money to hit pause and build a very, very basic flamingo habitat, and imported some flamingos from my other franchise zoo.

The guests went wild! I started making cash and was able to expand the flamingo exhibit into something respectable. (still may expand it more later, once I see the requirements of the new animals and have a fuller layout). Now the zoo is financially secure enough that I can start adding aquatic pack animals tomorrow when I'm done with work. Will probably start with otters first, as I think they might fit nicely across from the jaguars. Do plan to add hippos, crocodiles & pypmy hippos eventually (in addition to the new dlc animals), but will wait a bit since I think at least some of these might be expensive.

 

[DrAkula87]

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I love these mural/diorama kinda things! So creative! This actually gives me some ideas for my own zoo. ^^

 

[GGG2021]

I just stole all the aquatic looking things in the construction folder and painted a hectic aquatic looking mural - was really fun and aquatically liberating. It will be a walk-through wet your appetite type area before going to see a seal, observe and otter, par-ooze a penguin - or cuddle a Caiman (perhaps not).

Wrong biome for this zoo though - as I had fun inside building - it was snowing outside - did not seem right - have to blueprint the building and then transport it to a tropical themed biome for Aquatic expansion - T-minus 30 minutes I'm hoping.

 

[markun]

Not much time to play until the end of the week but I did take a moment to add some seals to their enclosure.

 

[NZFanatic]

Well...I ended up building a bison habitat. Not what I expected to do what with the new pack out and everything, but that's where I ended up.

Since it's a new zoo I don't want the aquatics to be front-and-centre. I'm planning a sort of hilly area for wolves/bears, so if all goes to plan the different elevations should lend themselves to underwater viewing for the seals/penguins. I'll no doubt add otters to a South American area and probably keep the caiman for a rebuilt Living Fossils house (not sure if I'll bother doing underwater viewing for the otters, though - it's a frustrating process, but we'll see).

 

[Firestar97]

I've started to build a completely new Zoo which will hopefully someday be the Home to way more European Animals. Currently there is a Enclosure with Wolves, a Ibex Mountain where maybe some Dall Sheep will live until we get a Europe DLC, a Enclosure with Herbert the Mini Wild Boar (even though some People claim that he is really a Warthog) and a Enclosure with Grey Seals (where I have a Problem with the Water Depth for some Reason) and a Exhibit with Diamondback Terrapin. I want the whole Zoo to be surrounded by a Forest

 

[markun]

I ended up staying up late to play with the new pieces. I think the new font is amazing and really useful.

This was just playing around with blueprints (this one from SimplySavannah) and the letters but I think I am going to build a full zoo around it, partly as a remake of a zoo I originally made in ZT2, especially because I am happy with it and I really struggle with entrances at the moment.

 

[iloveyourzoos]

Got up early to download the update and dlc while I was getting ready for work. (Sadly, my boss doesn't recognize Planet Zoo Holidays!)

Came home from work ready to play and did some fairly basic habitats for caiman, otters, penguins and the turtle. Will definitely be building each of them a more elaborate "pretty" habitat in the future, but just wanted to get them in the game to see how their mechanics worked and watch them a little bit. I did get all of them to dive, and even had 2 baby otters in the process. Held off on getting any seals until tomorrow because they were a bit more expensive. All the ones for conservation credits were going at or near 10,000 during the hours that I was playing, which I suppose I could have afforded, but I didn't want to blow all my credits in one place. There were some cash ones from Frontier, but I hadn't built up enough of a surplus in this new franchise zoo to pay for everything in cash, and I figure the credit market will stabilize by tomorrow, so why rush?

I noted that the penguins can have up to 500 adults (Challenge ACCEPTED!), and that they can also be walk-through habitats. So now I'm toying with the idea of a cold-weather park where the penguin habitat is built to look "free range" (like you see for peafowl) with all guest paths being part of the giant penguin walk-through, and then other cold-weather animals like seals, reindeer, arctic wolves, polar bears, etc. being the "exhibits" that guests go around and visit -- from within the penguin walkthrough itself! I'll need to do the math and figure out how to get keepers to take care of the whole thing, but potentially such a habitat might dwarf the polar bear requirements.

 

[SalamAnders]

Before the DLC release I had a lot of plans for what to build for new animals. Yesterday I started on a penguin building in an empty map, but I didn't feel too satisfied with the result. And after I have seen so much stuff on YouTube and forums with the new animals, I felt like I actually needed a break from them (this often happen to me after a new release, but the motivation will come back later).

Instead I have been adding and redoing a lot of stuff in one of my longer going projects; Porosus Park. An Australian Zoo with their main focus on Native wildlife and reptiles.
A lot of the new building pieces have been great here.

My new dilemma is if I should ad the caimans to this zoo or not. I haven't seen a lot of people use the caimans yet, so I am curious to do something with them, and they would fit the concept of my park. But I like realism, especially when it comes to my choice of species.
The issue with the caiman is that according to my research online, no zoos in Australia got them.

I think I will add them, and make them a ''The only Caimans in an Australian Zoo'' kind of highligt. There is plenty of them in European zoos, so they could probably be imported from there.