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

[yoav_r]

outside my local area despite it being 1,500 km away

My entire country is less than 500 kilometers in length. How do you get so far?

 

[Chuditch]

My entire country is less than 500 kilometers in length. How do you get so far?

Nothing much too it really. You just pick a direction and start driving, and driving, and driving, and driving...

(for context, from where this sign is Perth is 2,300 km away and Darwin is 2,700 km. Haven't been to Perth yet but I've driven to Darwin and back a couple times)

 

[Captain Callum]

Nothing much too it really. You just pick a direction and start driving, and driving, and driving, and driving...

(for context, from where this sign is Perth is 2,300 km away and Darwin is 2,700 km. Haven't been to Perth yet but I've driven to Darwin and back a couple times)

I'm curious , how many days does it take to drive to Darwin

 

[Chuditch]

I'm curious , how many days does it take to drive to Darwin

About 4 days at a minimum (assuming you aren't insane and try to do Adelaide to Alice Springs or Alice Springs to Darwin in one day), but could be 6-7 days depending on how much exploring you do on the way. 31 hours of driving time anyway, which is about 8 hrs a day on average if you do it in 4 days.

I'd love to keep talking about travelling, but I think we're getting off-topic now

 

[DarthQuell]

About 4 days at a minimum (assuming you aren't insane and try to do Adelaide to Alice Springs or Alice Springs to Darwin in one day), but could be 6-7 days depending on how much exploring you do on the way. 31 hours of driving time anyway, which is about 8 hrs a day on average if you do it in 4 days.

I'd love to keep talking about travelling, but I think we're getting off-topic now

I'm sorry, I gotta share too about travel, and then we'll go on topic. Back in 2017, I took a driving trip from Houston to Los Angeles (ugly city, by the way). Half of the trip was in Texas. Like, literally, a 20 hour drive, and 10 of them was to get to El Paso. Dang, my state is huge. A lot of desert.

At some rest stops there were danger signs for rattlers. We searched and searched to see one, but nothing at all

 

[YesIndeed]

I thought I would do another zoo near me. This is my local reptile park. Putting it here to show our lack of reptiles. Take into account they also have meerkats because what zoo dosent. Including exhibits btw.

Do have
Meerkat
Komodo dragon
Aldabra Giant Tortoise
Saltwater crocodile
American Alligator
Boa constictor (e)
Eastern brown snake (e)

Don't have
Habitat blue tongue lizard
Habitat frill necked lizard
Habitat sand monitor
Habitat green Iguana
Perentie
Lace monitor
Crocodile monitor
Radiated Tortoise
Snake necked Turtle
Pig nosed turtle
Freshwater crocodile
Indian cobra (e)
King cobra (e)
Inland typan (e)
Red belly black snake (e)
Carpet Python (e)
Multiple gecko species I can't remeber what they have (e)

 

[avietar]

Wild boar, Wisent, and European river otters.

 

[Antimony96]

Two smaller AZA zoos--one was one I grew up going to a lot as a young child (Bergen County Zoo, NJ) and the other is one I lived to when I was slightly older (ZooAmerica, PA), both inspirations for smaller Northeastern-inspired zoos I might want to create:
Bergen County Zoo:
Elk (wapiti)
Greater rhea
Goeldi's marmoset
Golden lion tamarin
Cotton top tamarin
Geoffroy's spider monkey
Guanaco
Ocelot
White-nosed coati
Red wolf
Red-footed tortoise
Red brocket deer (actually one of the few holders, in a big mixed South American exhibit with capybara and Baird's tapir)
Various domestics (goat, sheep, donkey, horse, cow, pig, goose)

ZooAmerica:
American marten
American black bear
Black-footed ferret
Bobcat
Canada lynx
North American porcupine
Ringtail
North American river otter
White-tailed deer

 

[yoav_r]

Two smaller AZA zoos--one was one I grew up going to a lot as a young child (Bergen County Zoo, NJ) and the other is one I lived to when I was slightly older (ZooAmerica, PA), both inspirations for smaller Northeastern-inspired zoos I might want to create:
Bergen County Zoo:
Elk (wapiti)
Greater rhea
Goeldi's marmoset
Golden lion tamarin
Cotton top tamarin
Geoffroy's spider monkey
Guanaco
Ocelot
White-nosed coati
Red wolf
Red-footed tortoise
Red brocket deer (actually one of the few holders, in a big mixed South American exhibit with capybara and Baird's tapir)
Various domestics (goat, sheep, donkey, horse, cow, pig, goose)

ZooAmerica:
American marten
American black bear
Black-footed ferret
Bobcat
Canada lynx
North American porcupine
Ringtail
North American river otter
White-tailed deer

But add what species we do have. The ratio is always interesting.

 

[Antimony96]

But add what species we do have. The ratio is always interesting.

For animals at those zoos that are in PZ:

Bergen County Zoo:
American bison
American alligator
Baird's tapir
Black-tailed prairie dog
Capybara
Giant anteater
Cougar

ZooAmerica:
American alligator
Black-tailed prairie dog
Timber wolf
Cougar
Nine-banded armadillo
Pronghorn
Gila monster

 

[yoav_r]

I will also do the Jerusalem Biblical zoo. That zoo is heavy on aviaries, exhibits and aquariums so I'll just skip those that don't fit the game mechanics.

Entrance lake area

1. Siamang
2. Greater flamingo
3. Black-handed spider monkey
4. Grey crowned crane
5. Black swan
6. Mute swan
7. Egyptian goose
8. Mallard
9. Ferruginous duck
10. and many wild bird species that just settled here
    
    Small animal house
11. African giant snail
12. Fire salamander
13. Iberian ribbed newt*
14. Three-banded armadillo*
15. Poison dart frogs*
16. Red-rumped agouti
17. Cotton-top tamarin
18. Pygmy marmoset
19. Golden lion tamarin
20. Kleinmann's tortoise
21. Ornate mastigure
22. Australian green tree frog
23. Diadem snake
24. coin-marked snake
25. palestinian viper
26. painted carpet viper
27. veiled chameleon
28. Levant water frog
29. African clawed frog
30. Helmeted currasow
31. Reticulated python
32. Fat sand rat
33. Golden spiny mouse
34. Green anaconda
35. Prevost's squirrel
    
    
    Lower trail
36. African penguin
37. Aldabra giant tortoise
38. Bornean orangutan
39. Cheetah
40. Sumatran tiger*
41. Reeve's muntjac
42. Javan langur
43. Guianan squirrel monkey
    
    White night exhibit
44. Egyptian fruit bat
45. African brush-tailed porcupine
46. Common vampire bat
47. European hedgehog
48. Luzon giant cloud-rat
49. Senegal galago
50. Slow loris
51. Reeve's muntjac
    
    Upper trail
52. Asian elephant
53. Mandrill
54. Red panda
55. Western Chimpanzee
56. Asiatic lion*
57. Persian leopard*
58. Syrian brown bear*
59. Black howler
60. Eurasian otter
61. Northern palm squirrel
62. Rhinoceros iguana
63. Yellow throated marten
    
    Lemur land
64. Ring-tailed lemur
65. Brown lemur
66. Black lemur
    
    Australian area
67. Blue tongued lizard
68. Southern cassowary
69. Eastern grey kangaroo*
70. Bearded dragon
71. Grey-headed flying fox
72. Sugar glider
    
    South american area
73. Capybara
74. South american tapir*
75. Collared peccary
76. Greater rhea
77. Patagonian Mara
    
    Aquatic area
78. Asian small-clawed otter
79. Nile crocodile
    
    Underground area
80. Black-tailed prairie dog
81. Meerkat
82. Hissing cockroach
83. Naked mole-rat
84. Sheltopusik
    
    Children's zoo
85. Fennec fox
86. Salmon pink tarantula
87. African dwarf goat
88. Big hairy armadillo
89. Pony
90. Leopard gecko
91. Miniature horse
92. Israeli gold scorpion
    
    Tropical aviary
93. Argentinian tegu
94. Atlantic mudskipper
95. Emerald tree boa
96. Golden-handed tamarin
97. Lesser mouse-deer
98. New-guinea snake-necked turtle
99. Poison dart frogs*
100. Plummed basilisk
     
     Savannah bridge
101. Addax
102. Blue wildebeest
103. Common ostrich
104. Common zebra
105. Hippopotammus
106. Nyala
107. Reticulated giraffe
108. Red deer
109. Scimitar horned oryx
110. White rhino
111. Arabian oryx*
112. Nubian ibex*
113. Mountain gazelle*
114. Persian fallow deer*
115. Marabou stork

And this is without including the dozens of bird species in 4 massive aviaries (raptor aviary, tropical aviary, wetlands aviary and a lorikeet aviary) , a butterfly house, and the national aquarium, plus many species of birds and fish which are spread around the zoo.

I have a dream to someday be able to build something close to the Jerusalem zoo in PZ.

 

[Cynogale bennettii II]

For my second list, I will look at Call of the Wild Zoo in Essex - it opened almost exactly one year ago, on the site of another zoo that had closed in 2017. So everything on this list has arrived within around a year of opening.

The zoo is currently divided roughly into three parts - an indoor tropical house and two outdoor areas that were progressively added while the original zoo expanded.

I have ordered them as so - species already in the game, species that could work as habitat animals, exhibit species and species whose capability is unknown (flying birds and fishes).

Tropical House
Spectacled caiman
Cuvier's dwarf caiman
Nile monitor
Mexican redknee tarantula
Blue morpho butterfly

Common marmoset
Crested wood partridge
Northern caiman lizard
Red-footed tortoise
Six-banded armadillo
Victoria crowned pigeon

African sun beetle
Amboina sailfin lizard
Biak tree monitor
Burmese rock python
Central American wood turtle
Central Asian tortoise
Central bearded dragon
Common lime swallowtail butterfly
Common postman butterfly
Desert locust
False water cobra
Giant owl butterfly
Green tree python
Veiled chameleon
West African giant snail
White-spotted assassin bug

Plus green-cheeked conures, Goldie's lorikeet, Java sparrow and goldfish.

First outdoor area (themed here on the Americas)
Striped skunk

African pygmy goat (males only, kept separate from the females)
American red squirrel
Black-capped squirrel monkey
Continental giant rabbit
Domestic donkey
Ring-tailed coati

Plus blue-throated, green-winged, blue-and-yellow and hyacinth macaws, black-headed caique, Harris's hawk, various species of owl, red-tailed black and white cockatoos, Australian king-parrots, laughing kookaburra, striated caracara and Harris's hawk.

Second outdoor area (themed here as Asia, Africa and Australia)
Asian small-clawed otter
Binturong
European red fox
Meerkat
Ring-tailed lemur
Black-and-white ruffed lemur
Red-necked wallaby

African civet
African crested porcupine
African pygmy goat (females only, in a walkthrough enclosure)
African spurred tortoise
Common brown lemur
Greater rhea
Helmeted guineafowl
Kunekune pig
Mantled guereza
Serval
Small-spotted genet
Yellow mongoose

Plus Congo grey parrot and turkey vulture.

 

[jcp011c]

Well, with the Red River Hog and Lar Gibbon added, that's one more new animal from my local zoo (Grassmere Park) and also one "close enough" replacement.

Hitting on major points here:

Animals that are missing with no "close enough" replacement

Cape Porcupine (Crested would be a suitable replacement, so long as we get an Old World Porcupine)
Andean Bear
Eland
Bontebok

The first two are major wants, both in my overall top 10 wants and #2 and #4 if just looking at mammals only. The other two are African Antelopes which I'm quite good on, but wouldn't but upset if we got the, either, but only because it would help me recreate my local zoo so much better

Animals missing that have another animal in game I'm okay with substituting

Grey Kangaroo - Red Kangaroo (but is why I want the Grey Kangaroo so much)
Masai Giraffe - Reticulated Giraffe (but is why I want the Masai Giraffe so much)
Sumatran Tiger - Bengal Tiger (I'm fine with this substitution, though I wouldn't be upset with a Sumatran tiger added in)
Two Toed Sloth - Three Toed Sloth - (I'm okay with this, especially since it's an exhibit animal, maybe I wont' notice so much)
White Cheeked Gibbon - Lar Gibbon (I'm okay with this substitution.)

 

[Pentoleaf]

With the Red River Hog in, only colobus monkeys, African porcupines, dwarf crocs, radiated tortoise, a chameleon, and grey crowned cranes are needed to do a good approximation of my zoo's current African area, though I can sub a caimen for the dwarf croc without too much of a headache. Of course, there is also an aviary in that area with ducks and spoonbills and ibis and pheasants galore, but good luck on getting all of them.

I would like dwarf goats, goose, and watusi cattle to build in the futute African domestics area that's supposedly coming.

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The Asian area is looking good, though missing Pallas cats, Eurasian wild boar, markhor, musk deer, and Japanese serrow. I would like like saiga because 1. I would like them, and 2. they were on the list for the finished Asian area, but I don't know where that is at the moment (the climate in this area is nearly identical to their native range so I'm hopeful that when/if they show up they'll do well since many of their in captivity issues seem to be down to either incorrect enclosures or too much humidity).

--

South American is Choacan peccaries, rheas, and alpacas. I can sort of do it with llamas and emu, but the peccaries would be nice.

--

Finally, the North American section would need a North American porcupine, black bear, big horned sheep, otters, muskox, whooping cranes, tundra swans, and several more waterfowl + birds of prey.

--

Rockhopper penguins would be nice to complete the penguin coloney

--

Overall though, I'd say 60-70 of the actual zoo roster is present and while there are gaps, I could do I reasonable approximation. The Red River Hog and Lar Gibbon really helped since they have large, frony and centre habitats that looked odd left empty.

 

[YesIndeed]

We got the kar gibbon. My local has the white handed and they look pretty much the same.

Just waiting on.
Lion Tailed Macaque
Lace monitor
Perentie
Freshwater crocodile
Sand goanna
Golden pheasant
Australian sea lion
Geofreys spider monkey
Barbary sheep
Dromedary
Plumed whistling duck
Black rhino
Tasmanian devil
Short beaked echidna

 

[Aramar]

None of the animals in the tropical pack can be found in my local zoo, so nothing changes for me

 

[biggest_dreamer]

I'll do just habitat species, no exhibits, no aviaries, no aquariums.

Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, SC

• North American river otter
• Hamadryas baboon
• Diana monkey
• Harbor seal
• Domestic pig
• Domestic chicken
• Nigerian dwarf goat
• Nubian goat
• Alpaca
• Bennett's wallaby
• African spurred tortoise
• Radiated tortoise*
• Burmese black mountain tortoise*
• False gharial*
• Swan goose
• Caribbean flamingo
• Rockhopper penguin
• Gentoo penguin
• Common squirrel monkey
• White faced saki
• Golden lion tamarin
• Hoffman's two-toed sloth
• Fishing cat
• Black footed cat

* currently not on exhibit while the amphibian/reptile complex undergoes extensive renovations

In-game species: Grizzly bear, "lion", Amur tiger, siamang, koala, California sea lion, king penguin, American alligator, Cuvier's dwarf caiman, Galapagos giant tortoise, western lowland gorilla, red kangaroo, ring-tailed lemur, red ruffed lemur, binturong, North Sulawesi babirusa, meerkat, white rhino, reticulated giraffe, plains zebra, ostrich

Might be forgetting one or two, particularly reptiles since it's been some time since the ARC shut down and it's always been my least frequented area.

Greenville Zoo in Greenville, SC

• Greater rhea
• Kunekune pig
• Domestic chicken
• Domestic duck
• Chilean flamingo
• Black swan
• Southern screamer
• Alligator snapping turtle
• Ocelot
• Masai giraffe
• Bat-eared fox
• Schmidt's guenon
• Angolan colobus
• Geoffroy's spider monkey

In-game species: Giant anteater, American alligator, red panda, siamang, Amur leopard, Bornean orangutan, "lion", Aldabra giant tortoise, black-and-white ruffed lemur

Started to cap off South Carolina and do its final AZA zoo, Lowcountry Zoo, but they have a lot of domestics and waterfowl that I'm not sure on. The most notable ones aside from those would be gray fox, North American river otter, white-tailed deer, and wild turkey, though. American alligator and now red fox, and maybe llama are the in-game species they have.

Not sure if I returned to this after the Twilight or Grasslands packs, but after those and Tropical I’m only one closer on either zoo: the wallaby. On the flip side, Riverbanks now no longer has Diana monkeys (the last one died) and tomistoma (relocated). I guess if burrowing owls or quails count, they did get those in the meantime.

 

[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

Ok so, with the new DLC, I'm getting 2 more:

• Red river hog
• Fossa

And, I'm gonna add in the lar gibbon, too, despite the zoo not actually having them. They look very much like the white-cheeked gibbons at the zoo

 

[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

Emu, lar gibbon, red river hog, and maned wolf down. They also used to have a fossa.

 

[QueenCinna]

My local zoo is about 9 hours away but, it's my local zoo and I love them. They are a small privately owned zoo who are doing an incredible job! You can pat their zebras, and it's quiet in school holidays, you can get really close to the animals, I got to hold a dumerils boa - there are only 12 in Australia. Here's what I need to rebuild them in PZ:

Sulfur crested cockatoos
Scrub turkey
Red rumped parrots
Red tailed black cockatoos
Galahs
Yellow tailed black cockatoos
Australian pelicans
Black swans
Wandering whistling ducks
Red legged pademelons
Quokkas
Rufous bettongs
Whiptail wallabies
Cape Barron geese
Royal spoonbill
Nankeen night heron
Glossy ibis
Cattle egret
Australasian swamphen
Pied stilt
Ruddy shelduck
Rajah shelduck
Hardhead
Eclectus parrot
Nicobar pigeon
Wonga pigeon
Topnot pigeon
Torresian imperial pigeon
White headed pigeon
Bush stone curlew
Lady Amhersts pheasant
Laughing kookaburra
Broad shell river turtles
Rhesus macaque
Sumatran tiger (her name is rani, she will come over if you call her!!)
Blackbuck
Australian bustard
Budgerigar
Diamond dove
Cockatiel
Crimson winged parrots
Sri Lankan leopards
Guanaco
Serval
Grants zebra
Addax
Cape porcupines
African grey parrots
Radiated tortise
Golden pheasant
Hamadryas baboon
Patagonian mara
Banded lapwing
Luzon bleeding heart
Nepal kalij pheasant
Australasian figbird
Blue and gold macaw
Ringneck pheasant
Brazilian agouti
Scarlet macaw
Swinhoes pheasant
Blue fronted Amazon
Yellow crowned amzon
Black capped capuchin
Red handed tamarin
Cotton top tamarin
Emperor tamarin
Rhinoceros iguana
Burmese python
Common marmoset
Freshwater crocodile
Shingleback
Central bearded dragon
Eastern bearded dragon
Bolivian squirrel monkies
Perentie
Noisy pita
Pacific emerald dove
Rose crowned fruit dove
Australian king parrot
Eastern barn owl
Australian Grass owl
Gang gang cockatoos
Satin bowerbird
Tawny frogmouths
Mallefowl
common Ringtail possums
Dumerils boa



What is in PZ:
Aldabra giant tortoise
Plains zebra
Koala
Red kangaroo
Wombat
Emu
Siamang
Red deer
Llama
Maned wolf
Caracal
Cheetah
Giraffe
Pygmy hippopotamus
Ring tailed lemurs
Meerkats
Black and white ruffed lemurs
West African lion
Ostrich
Capybara
Brazilian tapir (I think my zoos old lady passed away actually)
Komodo dragon
Yellow anaconda
Boa constrictor
American alligator
Saltwater crocodile
Eastern bluetongue
Dingo