Today I created my first ever (profitable) franchise zoo, after mostly toying with tutorial and sandbox for training. It's still an ugly mess especially when you zoom out because I still need some training with the game's various tools, but still I'm quite happy with what I've managed to do. I like to do themed zoos so this one is about birds, I don't have a lot to work with as I still don't have most of the doc's (six species of birds in total and not much in terms of decorations and gift shop items) but it's still for training so it's ok. I've created 4 habitats so far, greater flamingo, Indian peawfowl, Japanese cranes and king penguins, which can all be walked through, I only have the Southern cassowaries and common ostriches left to do but with the ostriches I think I will "cheat" and introduce some African mammals for cohabitation. I may have surround their habitat with a full African wing. I'm also considering closing the Japanese cranes habitat to visitors and grouping them with Japanese macaques, because my poor elongated babies regularly suffer from stress despite their zoopedia article saying they're okay with it.