What species are missing for you to complete your local zoo?

[HunterIsCookie]

Going to count the nearest zoo with non-Aussie animals for the most variety:

Habitat:
Agile Wallaby
Banteng
Common Marmoset
Common Wallaroo (currently a single joey kept with the wallabies)
Cotton-Top Tamarin
Domestic Ducks (Muscovy?)
Domestic Goat (unkown breed)
Domestic Goose (unkown breed)
Domestic Pig (unknown breed)
Elongated Tortoise
Emu
Freshwater Crocodile
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
Hamadryas Baboon
Helmeted Guineafowl
Indian Star Tortoise
Leopard Tortoise
Magpie Goose
New Guinea Crocodile
Timor Pony (could be substituted for Przewalski's tbh)
Tufted Capuchin

Exhibit:
Black-Headed Python
Blood Python
Green Anaconda
Rhinoceros Iguana
Shingleback Skink

• Numerous aviary birds do and used to exist within the park, but I'm too lazy to list them (a lot of different cockatoos)
• Numerous other species used to be kept there like Maned Wolves, Servals, the last Ocelots in Australia, a Hawksbill Sea Turtle (which I saw when I was very little), Reticulated and Burmese Pythons and a Black-Necked Stork, amongst others.

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

My local zoo is Colchester Zoo. This is the list of species they have that are yet to be in the game (I have not included fish or the larger flying birds such as vultures and hornbills, as I don't entirely know how they would work) - the bolded species are the ones I would want the most:

Habitat species

• Buffy-headed capuchin
• Golden-headed lion tamarin
• Coppery titi monkey
• Yellow-footed tortoise
• Rhinoceros iguana
• Pied tamarin
• Golden lion tamarin
• Geoffroy’s marmoset
• Southern tamandua
• Patagonian sea lion
• Guianan bearded saki monkey
• Common squirrel monkey
• Giant Asian pond turtle
• Humboldt penguin
• Colombian black spider monkey
• Victoria crowned pigeon
• Cherry-crowned mangabey
• Crowned lemur
• Red-bellied lemur
• Barbary macaque
• Southern African lion
• African spurred tortoise
• African breeds of goat and sheep - pygmy goat, Boer goat, Cameroon sheep and Somali fat-tailed sheep
• Red-necked wallaby
• Blue crane
• Blue duiker
• Grey crowned crane
• Kirk’s dik-dik
• L’Hoest’s guenon
• Red river hog
• Greater kudu
• Leopard tortoise
• Rock hyrax
• Radiated tortoise
• Bush dog
• Visayan warty pig
• Visayan spotted deer
• Eurasian wolf
• Lion-tailed macaque
• Pileated gibbon
• Gelada
• Chilean flamingo
• Smooth-coated otter
• Western slender-snouted crocodile

Walkthrough exhibit species

• Linne's two-toed sloth
• Crested wood partridge
• Rainbow lorikeet
• Village weaverbird

Exhibit species

• Green anaconda
• Yellow-banded poison-dart frog
• Green-and-black poison-dart frog
• Trinidad stream frog
• Fiji banded iguana
• Monkey-tailed skink
• Bony-headed toad
• Macleay’s spectre stick insect
• African rock python
• Giant plated lizard
• Saharan spiny-tailed lizard
• African pancake tortoise
• Fire skink
• False tomato frog
• West African mud turtle
• Madagascar tree boa
• Royal python
• Burmese rock python
• Green tree monitor
• Gariau forest dragon
• Spiny turtle

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Well... for my local local zoo i got the wildpark düsseldorf, so i can just tell you guys all the animals.
I also put a heart for which one ive pet allready, just cause i can.
So we got in game:

• Fallow Deer <3
• Red Fox
• Racoons

We still need:

• Wild boar <3
• Red Deer <3
• European Mouflon
• Common Pheasent
• Red Squirrel
• European Wild Cat
• European Polecat/Ferret (they got a litter of wild and domestic mixes)
• Red Wood Ant (they got a giant hill with a protective cage and some education signs around them)

The 2 Animals they had in the past that actually are in game:

• Eurasian Lynx
• European Badger

So if you ever ask yourself how a german wild park looks like and which inhabitants you can legaly seduce with apples in exchange/with a bonus of scratches, you now know

 

[yoav_r]

Reviving this thread to ask:

What zoos do you know that can be reasonably recreated in PZ with the current roster?

Inspired by @Captain Callum

 

[KönigDerKaffeebohnen]

Reviving this thread to ask:

What zoos do you know that can be reasonably recreated in PZ with the current roster?

Inspired by @Captain Callum

Man you beat me to it, expect a detailed post about the zoom zoo Gelsenkirchen soon

 

[YesIndeed]

I'm from Australia and the only ones I need for any local zoo would be:

Perentie
Echidna
Tasmanian devil
Tree kangaroo

The other ones I really want that rar common here but aren't necessary are:

Dromedary
Lion Tailed Macaque
Snake necked Turtle
Aboreal lizard like Lace or crocodile monitor
Freshwater crocodile
Golden Pheasant
Fairy penguin
Brishtail Possum
Whistling duck
Black swan
Australian spoonbill

This is all I require and Will be able to recreate Amy zoo in Australia

 

[yoav_r]

The Ramat Gan Safari zoo is relatively close to completion in the game, here's the list by area not including aviary birds and exhibit mammals. Animals with (~) have reasonable ingame substitutes in my opinion.

The zoo is in the process of transitioning from taxonomical areas to geographical areas so some areas are currently weirdly mixed.

Safari area

1. Addax
2. African Lion
3. Arabian oryx (~Gemsbok)
4. Blue wildebeest
5. Common Ostrich
6. Common zebra
7. Hippopotamus
8. Greater flamingo
9. Nyala
10. Scimitar horned oryx
11. Thomson Gazelle
12. Waterbuck (~Nile lechwe)
13. White rhino
14. Common eland
15. Grey crowned crane
16. Masai Giraffe
17. Marabou stork
    
    Australian area
18. Emu
19. Red kangaroo
20. Red-necked wallaby
21. Southern cassowary
22. Lyle's flying fox
    
    Primate/African area
23. African wild dog
24. Black-and-white ruffed lemur
25. Gray wolf
26. Green Iguana
27. Indian crested porcupine ~(Crested porcupine)
28. Lar gibbon
29. Linnaeus's two toed sloth (~Brown throated sloth)
30. Mandrill
31. Red ruffed lemur
32. Ring-tailed lemur
33. Striped hyena
34. Sumatran orangutan (~Bornean orangutan)
35. Weeper Capuchin (~CWF capuchin)
36. Western chimpanzee
37. West lowland Gorilla
38. Cotton-top tamrin
39. Crowned lemur
40. Emperor tamarin
41. Guereza
42. Hamadrayas baboon
43. Sulawesi crested macaque
    
    Lake area
44. African Penguin
45. Siamang
46. Great white pelican
    
    Carnivore/Israel area
47. Asian black bear
48. Fennec fox
49. Persian leopard (~Amur leopard)
50. Raccoon
51. Sand cat
52. Syrian brown bear (~HBB)
53. Alligator snapping turtle
54. Fat sand rat
55. Lion-tailed macaque
56. South American coati
    
    Giants area
57. African elephant
58. African wild ass
59. Asian elephant
60. Reticulated giraffe
61. Kirk's Dik-dik
    
    South American area
62. Brazilian tapir (~Baird's tapir)
63. Capybara
64. Giant anteater
65. Greater rhea
66. Patagonian mara
    
    South east asia area
67. Gharial
68. Komodo dragon
69. Sumatran tiger (~Bengal tiger)
70. Axis deer
71. Chinese muntjac
    
    Petting zoo
72. Bactrian camel
73. Dromedary camel
74. Llama
75. African dwarf goat
76. Domestic donkey
77. Pony
    
    Reptile area
78. American alligator
79. Asian water monitor
80. Black-tailed prairie dog
81. Meerkat
82. Argentine black-and-white tegu
83. Argus monitor
84. Green anaconda
85. Nile crocodile
86. Red-eared slider
87. Reticulated python

While a lot of small species are missing, mainly primates and birds, I can recreate almost every major habitat with some minor substitutes.

 

[Captain Callum]

Alright with a couple recreations completed and a good lineup of moderately sized zoos in north america , I will list the typical species that cannot be substituted

( * For essential animals)

• Two Toed Sloth *
• Red rumped Agouti
• Literally any flying birds , but especially Andean c*ck of the rock, any tanager, Kookaburra, whistling duck, trumpeter swan , bald eagle
• Habitat birds like African crane, roseate spoonbill, scarlet ibis, roadrunner
• Primates is a big list
  • Debrazza monkey
  • Black and white colobus *
  • Spider Monkey *
  • Golden lion tamarin
  • Lion tailed macaque
  • François Langur *
  • Lar gibbon
  • Any guenon
• Porcupine, any species *
• Petting zoo animals - usually miniature donkey , miniature cattle, African pygmy goat, Kunekune pig
• American black Bear Or Spectatled bear

Now zoos I find easy enough to recreate

• Pretty much every zoo in my projects thread
• The more average sized a zoo is , the easier it is to recreate. Smaller zoos tend to have more specialised species and large zoos simply can't be recreated due to performance or size limitations

Lets have a look at the woodland park zoo since I'm working on this and fairly knowledgeable at this point:

• Humboldt penguin - sub African penguin
• Butterfly garden - ✓
• Jaguar - ✓
• Tropical house Aviaries - X
• White nosed Coati - sub racoon
• Snake exhibits - anaconda and boa are good representations - ✓
• Golden lion tamarin - sub capuchin
• White faced saki - sub capuchin
• Red ruffed lemur - ✓
• Ring tailed lemur - ✓
• Colobus monkey - sub with black and white ruffed lemur
• Gorilla - ✓
• Chilean Flamingo - sub greater flamingo
• Southern pudu - sub capybara (superior choice of course)
• Red panda - ✓
• Maned wolf - ✓
• White naped crane - sub red crowned crane
• Duck aviary - X
• Trumpeter swan - X
• Red crowned crane - ✓
• Conservation Aviaries - X
• Miniature donkey - sub llama
• Domestic sheep - sub female dall sheep
• Domestic pig - sub female Babirusa
• Domestic goat - sub female alpine ibex
• African savannah - all good with ostrich, giraffe, gazelle and zebra present
• Hippo - ✓
• Africa aviary - X
• African lion - ✓
• Patas monkey - sub proboscis monkey (looks similar anyways)
• Warthog - ✓
• Indian Rhino - ✓
• Warty pig - sub Babirusa
• Demoiselle crane - sub red crowned crane
• Malaysian tapir - ✓
• François Langur - sub with either capuchins or proboscis monkey
• Siamang - ✓
• Orangutan - ✓
• Lowland Anoa - sub with bongo I guess
• Bird of prey demonstrations - X
• Komodo dragon - ✓
• Sloth - X
• Egyptian Tortoise - X
• Meerkat - ✓
• Snow leopard - ✓
• Emu + red necked wallaby - ✓
• Malayan tiger - sub with Bengal
• Sloth bear - sub with sun bear
• Asian otters - ✓
• Australian avaries - X
• Arctic wolf - ✓
• Canadian lynx - sub with Eurasian lynx
• Snowy owl + stellar sea eagle - X
• Grizzly bear - ✓
• River otter - sub with Asian otters
• Mountain goat - sub with Female dall sheep
• Elk - sub with red deer

Main problems are generally birds and primates, rest of the zoo is very well represented

 

[Chuditch]

I could get close to an accurate recreation of Monarto Safari Park using the current roster, largely thanks to the zoo's focus on large mammals:

Large wild animals present on the grounds:
Western Grey Kangaroo
Red Kangaroo
Emu

Smaller animals:
Tasmanian Devil
Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
Cape Crested Porcupine
Western Chimpanzee
Meerkat
Malleefowl

Land of the Lemurs experience:
Ring-tailed Lemur
Aldabra Giant Tortoise
Radiated Tortoise

Large open range herbivores:
Przewalski's Horse
Plains Zebra
Black Rhinoceros
Southern White Rhinoceros
Red Deer
Rothschild's Giraffe -> Reticulated Giraffe
Mesopotamian Fallow Deer -> European Fallow Deer
American Bison
Common Eland
Nyala
Blackbuck
Addax
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Aoudad
Common Ostrich

Large open range carnivores:
African Wild Dog
Spotted Hyena
African Lion -> West African Lion
Cheetah

Any of my other local zoos have too big of a collection of Australian fauna, birds and primates to come close to being replicated.

 

[yoav_r]

Any of my other local zoos have too big of a collection of Australian fauna, birds and primates to come close to being replicated.

I very much relate to this. Thank the universe for Safari zoos, as I feel those in general would be much easuer to recreate due to their default focus on megafauna.

 

[yoav_r]

Alright with a couple recreations completed and a good lineup of moderately sized zoos in north america , I will list the typical species that cannot be substituted

( * For essential animals)

• Two Toed Sloth *
• Red rumped Agouti
• Literally any flying birds , but especially Andean c*ck of the rock, any tanager, Kookaburra, whistling duck, trumpeter swan , bald eagle
• Habitat birds like African crane, roseate spoonbill, scarlet ibis, roadrunner
• Primates is a big list
  • Debrazza monkey
  • Black and white colobus *
  • Spider Monkey *
  • Golden lion tamarin
  • Lion tailed macaque
  • François Langur *
  • Lar gibbon
  • Any guenon
• Porcupine, any species *
• Petting zoo animals - usually miniature donkey , miniature cattle, African pygmy goat, Kunekune pig
• American black Bear Or Spectatled bear

Now zoos I find easy enough to recreate

• Pretty much every zoo in my projects thread
• The more average sized a zoo is , the easier it is to recreate. Smaller zoos tend to have more specialised species and large zoos simply can't be recreated due to performance or size limitations

Lets have a look at the woodland park zoo since I'm working on this and fairly knowledgeable at this point:

• Humboldt penguin - sub African penguin
• Butterfly garden - ✓
• Jaguar - ✓
• Tropical house Aviaries - X
• White nosed Coati - sub racoon
• Snake exhibits - anaconda and boa are good representations - ✓
• Golden lion tamarin - sub capuchin
• White faced saki - sub capuchin
• Red ruffed lemur - ✓
• Ring tailed lemur - ✓
• Colobus monkey - sub with black and white ruffed lemur
• Gorilla - ✓
• Chilean Flamingo - sub greater flamingo
• Southern pudu - sub capybara (superior choice of course)
• Red panda - ✓
• Maned wolf - ✓
• White naped crane - sub red crowned crane
• Duck aviary - X
• Trumpeter swan - X
• Red crowned crane - ✓
• Conservation Aviaries - X
• Miniature donkey - sub llama
• Domestic sheep - sub female dall sheep
• Domestic pig - sub female Babirusa
• Domestic goat - sub female alpine ibex
• African savannah - all good with ostrich, giraffe, gazelle and zebra present
• Hippo - ✓
• Africa aviary - X
• African lion - ✓
• Patas monkey - sub proboscis monkey (looks similar anyways)
• Warthog - ✓
• Indian Rhino - ✓
• Warty pig - sub Babirusa
• Demoiselle crane - sub red crowned crane
• Malaysian tapir - ✓
• François Langur - sub with either capuchins or proboscis monkey
• Siamang - ✓
• Orangutan - ✓
• Lowland Anoa - sub with bongo I guess
• Bird of prey demonstrations - X
• Komodo dragon - ✓
• Sloth - X
• Egyptian Tortoise - X
• Meerkat - ✓
• Snow leopard - ✓
• Emu + red necked wallaby - ✓
• Malayan tiger - sub with Bengal
• Sloth bear - sub with sun bear
• Asian otters - ✓
• Australian avaries - X
• Arctic wolf - ✓
• Canadian lynx - sub with Eurasian lynx
• Snowy owl + stellar sea eagle - X
• Grizzly bear - ✓
• River otter - sub with Asian otters
• Mountain goat - sub with Female dall sheep
• Elk - sub with red deer

Main problems are generally birds and primates, rest of the zoo is very well represented

You got some really creative substitutes I must say.

 

[Captain Callum]

You got some really creative substitutes I must say.

It's the pudu or coati substitute isn't it , ha it works though

 

[Spiderhawk]

I took a trip to the zoo I grew up going to Beardsley Zoo. Thanks to this game and from all the knowledge all of you have provided over time, I was able to give my godmother a guided tour of animals i I’d previously been unaware of. Anyway here’s a list of habitat animals that are not in game. I forget most of the exhibit critters ftr.
Two toes sloth
Toucan
Macaws
Ocelots
Chocan peccaries
Andean bears
Black bears
American River otters
White tailed deer
Barn owl
Various rabbits
Red wolves (currently none on habitat)
Various petting zoo animals
Spider monkeys

 

[Captain Callum]

Anyways the actual topic of this thread is about local zoos so what animals are needed to make the Highland wildlife park come to life? (Bold for must have animals)

• Wolverine
• Domestic Yak
• Scottish Wildcat
• Himalayan monal
• Red Squirrel
• Barnacle geese + Northern Lapwing (wild but very much a permanent addition to the park)
• Bukhara deer
• European Bison
• Markhor
• Vicuna
• White lipped deer
• Himalayan tahr
• Takin (unsure exact species)
• European Crane
• Eurasian Eagle Owl

 

[AlexSea]

My nearest zoo is the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, and I'll just include the animals that I think we could realistically get without aviaries or aquariums. I'll also leave out any animals for which an acceptable substitute exists in game, and I'll highlight any animals that I particularly want.

Africa

• Guereza Colobus
• Blue-Eyed Black Lemur
• Coquerel's Sifaka
• African Rock Python
• Greater Kudu
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Henkel's Leaf-Tailed Gecko
• Maribu Stork
• Pancake Tortoise
• Red Spitting Cobra
• Green Mamba
• Gaboon Viper
• Yellow-Backed Duiker

Asia

• Visayan Warty Pig
• Burmese Python

South America

• Emerald Tree Boa
• Arrau Turtle
• Brazilian Rainbow Boa
• Caiman Lizard
• Caribbean Flamingo
• Cotton-Top Tamarin
• Green Anaconda
• Red-Footed Tortoise
• Rio Cauca Ceacelian
• Southern Black Howler
• Seba's Short-Tailed Bat
• Utila Spiny-Tailed Iguana

North America

• Alligator Snapping Turtle
• Coyote
• Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake
• Eastern Coral Snake
• Eastern Indigo Snake
• Florida Bobcat
• Florida Box Turtle
• Sandhill Crane
• Gopher Tortoise
• North American Black Bear
• Wild Turkey
• Whooping Crane

 

[ralphthestick]

Oh, this is a cool idea! London Zoo is my most local one. Not the most comprehensive animal list on the website, so mostly off memory. Bold are ones I'm really missing:
Habitat animals I’m relatively sure would work in the current game:

• White naped mangabey
• Suluwasi crested macaque
• Diana monkey
• Red river hog
• Crested porcupine
• Coati
• Donkey
• Kune kune pig
• Great white pelican
• Grey langur
• Dwarf mongoose
  
• Reeve’s muntjac
• Eastern black and white colobus
• Red duiker
• Aye aye
• Malagasy giant rat
• Two toed sloth
• Red faced spider monkey
• Titi monkey
• Golden headed lion tamarin
• Helmeted curassow
• Red footed tortoise
• There’s a serval in an offshow area, so I’m counting it.

Animals with reasonable substitutes if I’m being brutal:

• Sumatran tiger (pains me to say it though)
• White-cheeked gibbon (only one species of gibbon at the zoo, so I wouldn't mind using siamang in a recreation)
• Philippines crocodile (ditto, with caiman)
• Alpaca
• Squirrel monkey (not much like the capuchin, but small, cute, walkthrough new world monkey)
• Asiatic lion

Plus a couple of macaws and birds of prey, and 2 large, mixed species walkthrough aviaries. Could potentially add a few stork/ibis species to the list above along with seriemas.

Not as big a list as I was expecting, when it comes down to it. Mostly ‘filler’ animals and the constant bugbear that is lack of primates.

 

[Chuditch]

I've done Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Safari Park before, so here's the species missing from Cleland Wildlife Park, which is devoted specifically to native animals (mostly from South Australia).

Habitat:
Short-beaked Echidna
Tasmanian Devil
Southern Brown Bandicoot
Greater Bilby
Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Long-nosed Potoroo
Yellow-footed Rock-wallaby
Western Grey Kangaroo (mainland ssp.)
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo
Tammar Wallaby
Swamp Wallaby
Malleefowl
Magpie Goose
Black Swan
Cape Barren Goose
Plumed Whistling Duck
Rajah Shelduck
Australian Shelduck
Royal Spoonbill
Glossy Ibis
Australian Pelican
Bush Stone-curlew
Heath Goanna
Lace Monitor

Exhibit:
Tree Skink
Cunningham's Skink
Shingleback
Tawny Dragon
Central Bearded Dragon
Spiny-tailed Monitor
Children's Python
Woma
Olive Python
Murray-Darling Carpet Python
Pygmy Copperhead
Tiger Snake
Inland Taipan
Mulga Snake
Red-bellied Black Snake
Cane Toad
Ewing's Tree Frog
Southern Bell Frog
Spotted Marsh Frog
Flinders Ranges Scorpion
Some butterflies idk

Not including aviary birds just yet

 

[Antimony96]

Excluding aviary birds and exhibit reptiles, Philadelphia is actually pretty well-represented in Planet Zoo, especially with the departures of some of its more niche species like the douc langur we once had. Excluding species that are very close to existing PZ species (e.g. Sumatran orangutan, Humboldt penguin):

White-faced saki monkey
Guianan squirrel monkey
Geoffroy's marmoset
Golden lion tamarin
Pied tamarin
Black-headed spider monkey
Francois' langur
Blue-eyed black lemur
Red-capped mangabey
Lar gibbon
Linnaeus's two-toed sloth
Brazilian porcupine
White stork
Saddle-billed stork
Hamerkop
Emu
Golden pheasant
Temminck's tragopan
Congo peafowl
Cattle egret
Ankole Watusi cattle
Red river hog
Mhorr gazelle
Andean bear
Sloth bear
Maned wolf
West African dwarf crocodile

Update: the mhorr gazelle died and with it the species has zero AZA presence. Also I somehow forgot the giant elephant shrew, maybe my favorite animal there.

 

[DarthQuell]

The problem is that my zoo (Houston) has a big roster, and we're only getting more this coming year.

So, imma divide it by each zone. I will not include animal types not in the game (aquariums and flying aviaries. If it's a ground dwelling aviary bird, I'll add it):

• Texas Wetlands/Children's Zoo
  • Whooping crane
  • Greater roadrunner
  • Swift fox
  • NA porcupine
  • Bobcat
  • Wild turkey
  • NA river otter
  • White tailed deer
• South American Pantanal
  • Black howler monkey
  • Greater rhea
  • Roseate spoonbill
  • Screamer (bird)
  • Curassow (red billed)
  • Green anaconda
• African Forest
  • Red river hog
  • Masai giraffe
• Natural Encounters
  • Golden lion tamarin
  • Sloth (not sure which)
  • Victoria crowned pigeon
  • Prevost's squirrel
  • Prehensile tailed porcupine

Imma update this a little bit with the Galapagos area that'll open April 7:

Galapagos Islands

• Humboldt penguin
• Green sea turtle

 

[yoav_r]

Imma update this a little bit with the Galapagos area that'll open April 7:

Galapagos Islands

• Humboldt penguin
• Green sea turtle

I want pictures of the new area, the plan looks so cool