Which in-game species have you seen IRL?

Chuditch

Chuditch
Cynogale bennettii II said:
The little collage of pictures I made above from the Eurasian Animal Pack species inspired me to go back through my picture folders and make up one for each of the DLC. The first ten DLC:
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Made me feel like doing something similar!

Arctic Pack
None photographed, one seen (polar bear)

South America Pack
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  • Llama at National Zoo & Aquarium
Australia Pack
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  • Koala at Cleland Wildlife Park
  • Red Kangaroo (wild) at Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
  • Dingo at Cleland Wildlife Park
  • Southern Cassowary at Adelaide Zoo
  • Eastern Bluetongue Skink (wild) at Whyalla Conservation Park
Aquatic Pack
None photographed, none seen

Southeast Asia Animal Pack
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  • Sun Bear at National Zoo & Aquarium
  • Binturong at Adelaide Zoo
  • Malayan Tapir at Adelaide Zoo
Africa Pack
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  • Fennec Fox at Adelaide Zoo
  • Meerkat at Adelaide Zoo
  • Southern White Rhinoceros at National Zoo & Aquarium
North America Animal Pack
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  • American Alligator at Adelaide Zoo
Europe Pack
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  • European Fallow Deer at Adelaide Zoo
Wetlands Animal Pack
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  • Platypus (wild) at Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
  • Capybara at Adelaide Zoo
  • Asian Small-clawed Otter at Adelaide Zoo
Conservation Pack
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  • Siamang at Adelaide Zoo
  • Przewalski's Horse at Monarto Safari Park
  • Scimitar-horned Oryx at Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Twilight Pack
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  • Common Wombat at Gorge Wildlife Park
  • Red Fox (wild) in Adelaide
Grasslands Animal Pack
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  • Red-necked Wallaby (wild) at Barrington Tops National Park
  • Maned Wolf at Adelaide Zoo
  • Emu (wild) at Innes National Park
  • Monarch (wild) at Morialta Conservation Park
Tropical Pack
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  • Lar Gibbon at Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Arid Animal Pack
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  • Black Rhinoceros at Taronga Western Plains Zoo
  • Dromedary at Gorge Wildlife Park
  • Addax at Taronga Western Plains Zoo
Oceania Pack
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  • Tasmanian Devil at Adelaide Zoo
  • Quokka at Adelaide Zoo
  • Little Penguin at Adelaide Zoo
  • Spectacled Flying Fox (wild) in Cairns
Eurasia Animal Pack
None photographed, one seen (Hermann's tortoise)
 
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Animal Guardian065

Animal Guardian065
oh boy, this is going to be a hard one for me, but let's see
Queensland koala - Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary and in the wild
Red Kangaroo- Australia Zoo
Dromedary Camel - Camel Farm
Southern White Rhino- Australia Zoo
Malayan Tapir- Adelaide Zoo
African Lion - Adelaide Zoo
Aldabra Giant Tortoise- Adelaide Zoo and Australia Zoo
American Aligator- Australia Zoo and Adelaide Zoo
Asian Small Clawed Otter- Adelaide Zoo and Australia
Binturong- Australia Zoo
Red Panda- Adelaide Zoo
Chinese Pangolin - Taipei Zoo
Formosan Black Bear- Taipei Zoo
American Plains Bison -Taipei Zoo
Giant Panda- Adelaide Zoo and Taipei Zoo
Mandrill-Adelaide Zoo
Maned Wolf- Adelaide Zoo
Dingo- Adelaide Zoo and Australia Zoo
Plains Zebra- Australia Zoo
Pygmy Hippo - Jong's Crocodile Farm
Southern Cassowary- Australia Zoo
Saltwater Crocodile- Australia Zoo
Komodo Dragon- Australia Zoo
Asian Elephant - Australia Zoo (behind the scenes, not yet on display)
Emu- Australia Zoo
Giraffe (unknown subspecies)- Australia Zoo
Ring Tailed Lemur- Australia Zoo
Tasmanian devil- Australia Zoo
Red-necked Wallaby- Australia Zoo
Common Wombat- Australia Zoo
Fennec Fox- Adelaide Zoo
Meerkat- Australia Zoo and Adelaide Zoo
Siamang- Adelaide Zoo
Borneo Orang-utan- Singapore Zoo
Sun Bear- Singapore Zoo
Platypus- Platypus house in Tasmania
 

Cynogale bennettii II

Cynogale bennettii II
I have also decided to do the same picture collages for the base game, deluxe edition and free update animals - rather than cram them all in together, I have divided up the habitat species taxonomically and given the exhibit animals their own collage:

Afrotheria
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  • Aardvark at Africa Alive
  • African savanna elephant at Colchester Zoo
  • Indian elephant at Amersfoort Zoo
Primates
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  • Bornean orangutan at Colchester Zoo
  • Japanese macaque at Amersfoort Zoo
  • Mandrill at Colchester Zoo
  • Red ruffed lemur at Apenheul Primate Park
  • Ring-tailed lemur at Africa Alive
  • Western chimpanzee at Colchester Zoo
  • Western lowland gorilla at ZSL London Zoo
Carnivores
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  • African wild dog at Colchester Zoo
  • Cheetah at Colchester Zoo
  • Giant panda at Edinburgh Zoo
  • Red panda at Colchester Zoo
  • Siberian tiger at Colchester Zoo
  • Snow leopard at Marwell Zoo
  • Spotted hyena at Colchester Zoo
  • Timber wolf at Colchester Zoo (the actual North American subspecies, otherwise known as the Mackenzie Valley wolf)
Ungulates
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  • African buffalo (albeit the Congo subspecies) at Marwell Zoo
  • American bison at Rotterdam Zoo
  • Bongo at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
  • Common warthog at Colchester Zoo
  • Hippopotamus at Longleat Safari Park
  • Indian rhinoceros at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo
  • Nyala at Africa Alive
  • Okapi at Rotterdam Zoo
  • Plains zebra at Africa Alive
  • Reticulated giraffe at Colchester Zoo
Birds
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  • Common ostrich at Colchester Zoo
  • Greater flamingo at Africa Alive
  • Indian peafowl at Jimmy's Farm and Wildlife Park
Habitat reptiles
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  • Aldabra giant tortoise at Colchester Zoo
  • Galapagos giant tortoise at ZSL London Zoo
  • Nile monitor at Colchester Zoo
Exhibit animals
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  • Boa constrictor at Colchester Zoo
  • Brazilian salmon pink tarantula at Colchester Zoo
  • Giant desert hairy scorpion at ZSL London Zoo
  • Gila monster at Wingham Wildlife Park
  • Golden poison frog at WWT Slimbridge
  • Goliath beetle at The Bug Parc
  • Green iguana at Tropical Wings Zoo
  • Mexican redknee tarantula at Amazona Zoo
  • Western diamondback rattlesnake at Wingham Wildlife Park
  • Yellow anaconda at Colchester Zoo
Deluxe and free update species
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  • Komodo dragon at Colchester Zoo
  • Pygmy hippopotamus at Colchester Zoo
  • Black-and-white ruffed lemur at Colchester Zoo
  • Red deer at Wildwood Kent
  • Collared peccary at Marwell Zoo
 

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
Okay, yeah, Tampa definitely has yellow-footed. One of the only three (iirc?) zoos in the US to have them. They're pretty distinct thanks to their yellowish limbs and tail, which also has stripes. I just got to see them there a few months ago and they were the highlight of the zoo for me.
 

Alexjh

Alexjh
I'm too lazy to do a full updated Tier Chart, but
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Other Hightlight Categories include:

Seen the Poop of in the Wild:
Cougar

Missed cos I was on the Wrong Side of the Car:
Striped Skunk

Was looking out for but never saw:
Asian Black Bear
Brown Bear
Siamang
Asian Short-clawed Otter
 

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
And updated. As always, I'm only concerned so far as the species level, not the sometimes-arbitrary subspecies Frontier went with.

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Patch notes:
  • Beaver moved from "seen in the wild" to "seen in the wild and zoos" - my only pick-up since Oceania. That left just the armadillo as wild-only, so I consolidated those tiers so as to not have a tier with a single species.
  • I realized recently that the place I was counting as having been my reindeer sighting (a Christmas-themed place literally called Santa's Land that I visited some 20 years ago) has, as far as I can tell, only ever kept fallow deer making them a deceitful sham. I distinctly remember seeing the deer there too, so I felt confident in including them. Oh well.
  • Included my hopefuls for my 2024 trips around Texas and Florida, as well as my much more up-in-the-air 2025 Japan trip
  • Swan, sloth bear, and takin are seen; wolverine, wisent, and saiga are not; wild boar is presently not seen but should be in Japan; peccary I have fuzzy memories of that I need to sort out whether or not I'd "count" - erring towards "no" at the moment.
 

yoav_r

yoav_r
yoav_r said:
Graphic updated:
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Some wildlife sighting I saw a closely related species enough for me to count it:
  • African crested porcupine - I've seen the Indian crested porcupine
  • Alpine ibex - I saw nubian ibex tonnes of times (and got to see an actual alpine ibex once in Italy)
  • Wild water buffalo - obviously I just pretend it's the water buffalo

I know most people already said their new status but I wish they'd also update their graphic. It's nice seeing it progress.
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Here's mine:

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My main takeaway is that I really need to visit some cold climate zoo. So to the europeans here, which zoo would be best for the bottom two categories?
 

Markiz

Markiz
yoav_r said:
Here's mine:

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My main takeaway is that I really need to visit some cold climate zoo. So to the europeans here, which zoo would be best for the bottom two categories?
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There are Wisents, Przewalski Horses and Cranes in Parco Natura Viva in Verona, Italy. A smaller (roster-wise), but pretty spacious zoo that I can't reccomend enough.

I've seen Wolverines is Budapest zoo and Zoo Szeged, both in Hungary. Gemsboks I've seen in Beekse Bergen Safari park in Netherlands.

I've seen a lot of people missing Arctic Wolves on their list, I've had misfortune of seeing them in a Belgrade zoo.

They like to "collect" as many white animals as possible, that's their selling point, because Belgrade is "White City" in translation. I say misfortune because that's easily the worst zoo I've ever been to without competition, so seeing conditions in which those animals live wasn't worth it checking the Wolf of my list.

Thankfully I've heard that they plan to move zoo to much greener and more spacious environment as well as restructure the roster and species list they keep

And I think I saw Badgers in a bunch of different zoos across the continent so there's that.
 
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