Wild Encounters Animal Show

[Nodnarble]

Just about every zoo has educational shows. We've got educators, keeper talks, etc already available in the game but we don't have any big, proper educational shows. The zoo I work at personally has an enormous outdoor theater and a stage complete with perches, tunnels, and a pool for the animals to enter the show. Having something similar would be a huge new addition to Planet Zoo, and one I personally think people would have a ton of fun with.

How would it work ingame?
You've got a stage which you can decorate to your liking. The stage has a fake river like the one pictured below, that way both aquatic, terrestrial, and flying animals can enter. You provide the stage and seating and assign one or two educators. You can decide whether or not your guests pay to attend. There would be a predetermined list of species that can be used for the show. You select, let's say up to five animals, and then when the show begins a keeper will come and get them from their exhibit and take them to the show. They do their bit and are returned to their exhibits. It would be a good idea to use animals relatively close to the show location.
Animals participating in the show would probably just have a locked animation where they enter, interact with the educator, and then exit. Maybe there could be a very small chance of an animal misbehaving on stage, since that happens in zoos in real life all the time.

What animals would be used?
Pretty much any animal that can have guests enter their habitat that is also on the smaller side. Flying birds are commonly used in these kinds of shows, but a few other animals you see used often are penguins, beavers & otters, small monkeys, capybara, and lots of reptiles. It would be interesting to see a keeper carrying a mini-exhibit animal onto the stage, like the iguanas or the anaconda.

Let me know what you think below. Here are a few photos of the show at the zoo I work at.

 

[The_Riot22]

You select, let's say up to five animals, and then when the show begins a keeper will come and get them from their exhibit and take them to the show. They do their bit and are returned to their exhibits. It would be a good idea to use animals relatively close to the show location.

Or the show could be classified as a "habitat", so you would assign the animals there and they would stay there even when not in a show...or perhaps just assigning animals from the Trade Center. They will stay in the Trade Center, but have an icon by them stating they are being used in an animal show.
I'm not sure which method would be easier to implement.

 

[Nodnarble]

Or the show could be classified as a "habitat", so you would assign the animals there and they would stay there even when not in a show...or perhaps just assigning animals from the Trade Center. They will stay in the Trade Center, but have an icon by them stating they are being used in an animal show.
I'm not sure which method would be easier to implement.

That's a good idea. Considering all the show animals we have aren't in exhibits viewable by the public, they have behind-the-scenes aviaries and ponds and stuff where they live between shows. Some of our birds are actually trained to fly straight from their aviaries to the stage, do their routine, and fly back to their homes.

 

[Frobacca]

I love this idea! and I love how your zoo has it setup, the last one I worked at tried doing a few areas for shows but nothing that nice. I think i wouldn't even mind if it was a building of its own (like a large quarantine but with a stage attached sort of thing). fully customizable would be nice but just a prebuilt would be cool too!