What did you do in Planet Zoo today?

I am losing money, so I built a small pavillion with exhibit animals. It's an old building that has been modernized, so the interior is simple but cosy with the new wooden ceiling.

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I've barely played PZ this year and haven't managed to make any progress with Stringybark Zoo since the Oceania Pack dropped way back last September, but today I finally got the inspiration to return. First I added to some of the previous enclosures with cool mods that had released since I last played, starting by adding a small gang of long-nosed potoroos to the koala habitat (a mix I've seen irl). After that, I released a pair of black swans and a whole bunch of Pacific black ducks into to the Floodplains area, meant to represent wild birds that have taken up residence on the swampy lake that makes up this part of the zoo. The difference the presence of waterfowl makes to this section of the zoo is incredible, it feels so much more alive, and I spent a good while just watching the waterfowl and taking pretty pictures (none of which I can post here of course).

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After the great waterfowling, I started on the new habitats, finally making progress on the Drylands area that previously only consisted of a red kangaroo + yellow-footed rock-wallaby enclosure. I was originally planning to put southern hairy-nosed wombats next to the macropods before progressing onto exotic desert/grassland animals, but I was struggling to come up with ideas for them so I decided to go straight into some African carnivores instead. I built these two simple enclosed habitats for the fennec fox and serval:

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Directly across from the serval and fox I'm planning to build habitats for the meerkat and Cape porcupine (using African crested but they look identical so I just change the name on the info board), keeping all the smaller African mammals I want to include in the Drylands together in an area close to the start of the section before it progresses onto all the ungulates and large carnivores.

Given it's been a long while since I've posted about Stringybark Zoo, here's a species list for the zoo I made to get everyone back up to speed:
Entrance/South America (complete):
  • Capybara (Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris)
  • Spectacled Caiman (Caiman crocodilus)
  • Tufted Capuchin (Sapajus apella)*
  • Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus)

Native Wildlife (complete):
The Temperate Southeast
  • Tasmanian Devil (Sarcophilus harrisii)
  • Common Wombat (Vombatus ursinus)
  • Eastern Bluetongue Skink (Tiliqua scincoides scincoides)
  • Common Death Adder (Acanthophis antarcticus)
  • Eastern Brown Snake (Pseudonaja textilis)
  • Bennett's Wallaby (Notamacropus rufogriseus rufogriseus)
  • Emu (Dromaius novaehollandiae)
  • Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus)
  • Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus)*
  • Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
  • Dingo (Canis lupus dingo)
The South Coast
  • Quokka (Setonix brachyurus)
  • Australian Sea Lion (Neophoca cinerea)*
  • Australian Little Penguin (Eudyptula novaehollandiae)

Jungle Zone (mostly complete):
  • Southern Cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)
The Floodplains
  • Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)
  • Ring-tailed Lemur (Lemur catta)
  • Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata)
  • Pygmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
  • Lowland Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus)
  • Australian Swamp Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
  • (wild Black Swan* and Pacific Black Duck* resident)
Southeast Asia
  • Asian Small-clawed Otter (Aonyx cinereus)
  • Binturong (Arctictis binturong)
  • Malayan Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus malayanus)
  • Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica)*
  • Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus)
  • Chital (Axis axis)*
  • Banteng (Bos javanicus)*
  • White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates lar)
  • Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis)

The Drylands (ongoing):
  • Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus)
  • Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus)*
  • Fennec Fox (Vulpes zerda)
  • Serval (Leptailurus serval)*
  • Meerkat (Suricata suricatta, upcoming)
  • Cape Porcupine (Hystrix africaeaustralis, upcoming)

Future precincts:
Reptile House
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*new species mod used
 
As the Research of the Veterinarian revealed, the crowned Sussex Chicken almost went extinct once, so I've decided to send a Group of them from the Farm to a Bird Park for Conservation Purposes
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They’re even have a shrine for worshipping their great and powerful ancestors! (not really but close enough lol)
 
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