100% support and love for the Scottish Highland Cattle!! They have such a gentle expression I love them, very high on my list
any cattle really, I’d also love the Watusi with their impressive horns, often seen in zoos too!
What oddball unlikely animal do you want in the game?
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any cattle really, I’d also love the Watusi with their impressive horns, often seen in zoos too!
These 3 are very popular in this forum, and I get it, but would face major backlash in the general community.
Sifaka.
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The Bald Uakari! They're a really unique looking primate species, and it would give us more South American representation. Sure, they're pretty much unheard of in captivity, but that clearly hasn't stopped Frontier in the past. We got the Proboscis Monkey, after all. I think a rainforest pack, a second South America pack, or even a primate pack would all be packs that it could be included in.
Zooboomafu!Sifaka.
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Depends on what "oddball" means, really, but I choose this guy ^. The Sumatran rhinoceros. Critically endangered and has been successfully bred in captivity. The breeding programme was considered unviable due to the difficulty of getting fresh genetic material, but I'd love to recreate the success in-game.
Definitely my favourite crocodilian, the Tomistoma or False Gharial
One animal I have recently come to really want in the game is the grivet monkey - unfortunately, it has zero votes on the meta-wishlist and has received scant attention at all.
Their cousins, the vervet monkeys, are slightly better-known but even then only have 12 votes on the meta-wishlist. According to Zootierliste, the grivet is the third most commonly-kept Old World monkey across Europe and Israel, while the true vervet is only kept in three zoos in Russia. In America, they are only slightly rarer than the vervet.
As well as being more commonly-kept overall than vervets, they also have a brighter coat shade. They have many of the behavioural features of vervets, being highly sociable, alert and intelligent monkeys that would be very interesting to watch in-game. They can also be mixed with in-game species - at one zoo in Germany they live with warthogs, lechwe and elephants, plus impala and bat-eared foxes. Their commonness means they would fit in well into a smaller zoo, and basically provide an African equivalent to the capuchin monkey - a mid-sized primate to serve as a more basic species compared to the much more impressive mandrill.
They would have fitted in perfectly to either the Africa Pack or the Grasslands Animal Pack. I guess they could fit in a Woodlands Pack, provided it includes tropical dry forests in it. A more unusual option, like a Primate, Urban or Horn of Africa Pack could also see the grivet being added.
Their cousins, the vervet monkeys, are slightly better-known but even then only have 12 votes on the meta-wishlist. According to Zootierliste, the grivet is the third most commonly-kept Old World monkey across Europe and Israel, while the true vervet is only kept in three zoos in Russia. In America, they are only slightly rarer than the vervet.
As well as being more commonly-kept overall than vervets, they also have a brighter coat shade. They have many of the behavioural features of vervets, being highly sociable, alert and intelligent monkeys that would be very interesting to watch in-game. They can also be mixed with in-game species - at one zoo in Germany they live with warthogs, lechwe and elephants, plus impala and bat-eared foxes. Their commonness means they would fit in well into a smaller zoo, and basically provide an African equivalent to the capuchin monkey - a mid-sized primate to serve as a more basic species compared to the much more impressive mandrill.
They would have fitted in perfectly to either the Africa Pack or the Grasslands Animal Pack. I guess they could fit in a Woodlands Pack, provided it includes tropical dry forests in it. A more unusual option, like a Primate, Urban or Horn of Africa Pack could also see the grivet being added.
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I would feel so odd getting the Highland cow since I live next to a field full of them100% support and love for the Scottish Highland Cattle!! They have such a gentle expression I love them, very high on my list
Are they popular? Every time I suggest the bison and bear, I get nothing but backlash (with the bear in particular). And then the Cattle, they may be quite beloved but they certainly classify as an oddball pick; they are not highly requested at all, and would (I think) surprise EVERYONE if they were included!
For me it definitley has to be the southern elephant seal. I care more about getting them then getting walruses. Here's some pictures of my big floppy friends.
As for other animals, I would also like to see the Emperor tamirin cause it's the best tamirin and the Barbary Macaque because it's the only monkeys that technically live in Europe.
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You might’ve just given me a new addition to my wishlist!
I second that notion regarding the Scottish highland cattle! Also, an echidna would be nice.
Yeah I think that Addax with 76 votes is the most possible from those 4, but remember that we live in a time where skunk with 36 votes and Blue wildebeast with 25 votes made into the game.
So I think that quite easy to make Somali wild donkey with 52 votes and Pere David’s deer with 45 votes may still have some hope to be chosen as the next filler species in an animal pack or Anniversary update.
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Yeah, and their behavior is pretty wholesome too! At least, that's what Casual Geographic said in his latest video about animals that we need to be grateful for.
Zaboomafoo!Sifaka.
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One of the few domestic animals i actually wsnt in the game