Wild Boar or Peccary?
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Peccary. Wild boards are cool, but it's such an unimportant species in terms of conservation. Peccaries are both prevalent in zoo's, as well as endangered in form of the Chacoan Peccary.
But zoos don’t only exist as conservation lifeboats - as important as that is - they also exist to educate people and allow them to see their native wildlife close up and learn more about them.
From that point of view, the wild boar is important in Europe and it’s pretty much impossible to build a zoo focussing on native European fauna without them.
Literally Dead Even, both are essential for their respective regions and if we get another year i defenetly want both. For now i take either, whoever comes first i guess but after the last 3 packs all featuring peccary friendly themes but no peccary i strongly believe we will see the wild boar earlier, as to be frank the peccary would allready be in the game if frontier really wanted it to be, but sadly that doesnt seem to be the case
They are both quite an ideal option. Wild boar for Europe as it's one of the European missing animals in my opinion and a wild suid that can be held in colder area zoos.
But the Peccary gives us more variety of central and South American animals.
I would love to have them both, but I think a realistic choice would be the Wild Boar in an upcoming woodlands/forest/temperate DLC pack
But the Peccary gives us more variety of central and South American animals.
I would love to have them both, but I think a realistic choice would be the Wild Boar in an upcoming woodlands/forest/temperate DLC pack
Wouldn't mind either, to be honest. Wild boar is a big ticket European animal and the peccary brings a greater variety of South American animals.
I would never fully understand the wild boar craze. And your argument did not conviced me at all. We would probably get it before Peccary becouse so many people are talking about it.
Yeah same. I get that is the last big name from European forest wildlife left but is so unninteresting to me compared to the peccaries tbh. Only thing i like about wild boars are their pigglets lol
Part of me feels like the apathy towards the wild boar from some is an extension of apathy for European animals in general. As I understand, outside of Europe it's extremely rare to find any zoos with dedicated areas to European fauna.
As someone from Europe who likes to build zoos set in Europe, one of my absolute favourite things to build is native species areas. Currently if I want to build a large native area for Europe and want to include some ungulate paddocks (usually in a forested setting) my options are basically limited to deer (there is the ibex but for them I'm going to build something more montane) while for carnivores I can include lynx but also wolves and even bears (I basically use the HBB as a EBB... It looks more like one anyway). I'd really really really like to have some ungulates to use besides deer and wild boar are basically the perfect fit for this for something closer to the ground with a different lifestyle, also wisent for something truly huge but thats a different discussion.
As someone from Europe who likes to build zoos set in Europe, one of my absolute favourite things to build is native species areas. Currently if I want to build a large native area for Europe and want to include some ungulate paddocks (usually in a forested setting) my options are basically limited to deer (there is the ibex but for them I'm going to build something more montane) while for carnivores I can include lynx but also wolves and even bears (I basically use the HBB as a EBB... It looks more like one anyway). I'd really really really like to have some ungulates to use besides deer and wild boar are basically the perfect fit for this for something closer to the ground with a different lifestyle, also wisent for something truly huge but thats a different discussion.
I can kinda understand it, its an essential animal to us europeans but isnt really found in collections worldwide. So i get non europeans not being super keen on getting it.
I mean i feel the same about stuff like the american black bear. Its an essential animal to americans, but its irrelevant to pretty much everyone else. So i cant really be mad about other people not wanting the boar
I feel similarly about ABB as well, but major difference is North America has already got a good carnivore variety, Europe does not have a good ungulate variety by comparison.
Both would be good. As a European the Wild Boar seems Essential to me making a good Wildpark section. The Peccary is such a special species which can live in really big herds and it is also its own family and not a "real" pig species. But if I would have to decide I would choose the Wild Boar.
Welp At least we managed to get both as of December 2023 which satisfies both parties