What is your favourite animal of 2023?

While there will always be possible improvements to be made in the pack rosters, we should all be able to agree that this years quality of animals has been on another level. Which one was your favourite?
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Favorite: Saiga
I mean, biggest surprise as well, with all the hate the realism lovers gave it.

Other very good ones: Fossa, Red River Hog, Crested Porcupine, Kiwi, Tasmanian Devil, Wolverine, Takin, Swan,
These were all very needed non-clone animals that really brought something unique to the table

Just good: little penguin, sand cat, dromedary, black rhino, boar, peccary, sloth bear, donkey, quokka
Not my favorites and I would have made some changes, but they grown on me and still didn’t bothered me

Meh: addax, gibbon,
I would have picked 100 others before them, gibbon suffered from siamang in my case, I really hate 100% clones, I would have liked it if we didn’t get the siamang earlier

Ugh get away: dama gazelle, wisent, water monitor,
Sorry, but I would have picked 1000 other animals before these, never use them and they should have given the swimming animation to the nile monitor instead, extreme clones

Overal good year
 
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It’s between Red River Hog, Somali Wild Ass and the Swan

RRH because I love animals with red fur so much and they are so pretty irl too, the donkey because they are a good one to pretend for a petting zoo and the swan because it’s the closest we’ve ever gotten to geese and ducks which are two of my favorite animals irl
 
My favourite one? It's difficult, I'm torn between the porcupine and the wolverine. I'm going to say the porcupine because it's more unique.

And my favourite exhibit animals of 2023 is the tortoise!
 
My favourite one? It's difficult, I'm torn between the porcupine and the wolverine. I'm going to say the porcupine because it's more unique.

And my favourite exhibit animals of 2023 is the tortoise!
I'm almost stuck between those two as well. I have to go with the Wolverine though, myself but just very slightly. From a design perspective the Porcupine wins by a landslide though.
 
Unable to pick just one, especially with the Eurasia Pack being my surprising Highlight of the year. But place number one would be the Sloth bear, followed by porcupine.

Other highlight in no particular order: Swan, Wisent, Wild Boar, Gibbon.
Somali Wild Ass misses the mark by a tad bit with missing vocalisations and the Sloth is just the wrong one with way too bulky and comicy enrichment stuff in the habitat. However, both animals are still appreciated by me.
 
If I can give a top 5

1. Lar Gibbon
2. Red River Hog
3. African Crested Porcupine
4. Takin
5. Collared Peccary

In general I have a preference for more common zoo Animals. Hopefully next year will just be as amazing and finally give us some SA representation.
 
It's gott be the African Crested Porcupine for me!
Honorable Mentions:
2. Red River Hog
3. Lar Gibbon
4. Takin
5. Somali Wild Ass
 
Il categorize how I liked my animals
My favorite animal of 2023
tied between Peccary and Red River Hog
They are some pigs!
Thank you frontier so much, great job: peccary, RRH, sand cat, mute swan, Wolverine, T devil
Good job: kiwi, LBP, quakka, flying fox, AWM, porcupine, dromedary, wisent, takin, tortoise, sloth bear,
Meh: Saiga, fossa, sloth, wild ass, snake, wild boar
Not so much: All other arid as there were too many ungulates, lar gibbons should have been released with more brachiation,
 
Oh, its hard to pick just one. I got so many off my wishlist!

But to pick just one..I guess the Red River Hog as I voted for it as my most wanted animal. Others would be Kiwi, Porcupine, Takin, Lar Gibbon and Tasmanian Devil, to name a few.

Some that I wished for but never though we would get are Little Penguin, Collared Peccary and Somali Wild Donkey. These were my surprises of the year. :)
 
I think the porcupine takes it, but the swan is a surprise close second. I think overall, my ranking for this year would look something like this:
  1. African crested porcupine
  2. Mute swan
  3. Takin
  4. Sloth bear
  5. Red river hog
  6. Lar gibbon
  7. Collared peccary
  8. Addax
  9. Fossa
  10. Dama gazelle
  11. Dromedary
  12. Sand cat
  13. Black rhinoceros
  14. Wolverine
  15. Somali wild ass
  16. Wild boar
  17. Tasmanian devil
  18. North Island brown kiwi
  19. Little penguin
  20. Quokka
  21. Saiga
  22. Wisent
  23. Asian water monitor
Maybe a bit of recency bias in putting the takin/sloth bear over the red river hog for instance but overall this just about covers it.
 
I like the idea of ranking, hmmm…
  1. Sichuan Takin
  2. Somali Wild Ass
  3. Wild Boar
  4. Red River Hog
  5. African Crested Porcupine
  6. Mute Swan
  7. Wolverine
  8. North Island Brown Kiwi
  9. Black Rhino
  10. Saiga
  11. Fossa
  12. Tasmanian Devil
  13. Lar Gibbon
  14. Dromedary Camel
  15. Collared Peccary
  16. Addax
  17. Little Penguin
  18. Quokka
The rest I don’t really care about honestly.
 
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