After a week and a half of assignments and being away from home, I finally have some time to play some more PZ. Tonight I hopped back onto the Devil Conservation Centre and worked on the little penguin habitat, and I'm quite happy with how it turned out - its great for a small colony, and reminds me a lot of some of the little penguin enclosures I've seen in lower budget zoos in real life.
Akira, the last of the zoo's original 5 founding Tasmanian devils, unfortunately ended up passing away during this session, and so I built this simple memorial next to the entrance habitats to honour the devils that started it all.
With death also comes new life however, and the new set of breeding devils is already giving back. One new imp has already been born, a female named Ellin, and another litter is on the way. Just hoping I'll get some larger litters soon, as although they can produce up to four offspring at a time*, all of my litters so far have only been of 1-2 imps!
*Fun (or mildly morbid) fact, female devils actually give birth to 20-30 (sometimes as many as 50) underdeveloped young at a time, but given they only have four teats, only the first four to clamp onto a nipple survive while the rest of the young perish - with a childhood as rough as that, no wonder they grow up so grumpy!