Planet Zoo How would you change Planet Zoo’s current animal roster?

Yeah, whatever its called.

 

I'm pretty happy with the animal roster. Probably would switch around some from the DLC packs and base game, but that's not a big deal, especially when you buy all of the DLC. I guess if I had to nitpick:

Bengal tiger: Since Bengal tigers aren't really seen in zoos outside of Asia, I think a different tropical tiger subspecies would have been a better choice. I'm thinking Sumatran but Malayan would work well too. I guess they went for Bengal cause they're more iconic.

Spectacled caiman: Just felt pretty redundant, since we already had four other crocodilians, including a caiman. If they really wanted to add another crocodilian, I think there are some better options. The Orinoco crocodile has a more distinct appearance, and the Nile crocodile would have been some African crocodilian representation.

 

Honestly, I'm fine with most of PZ's roster. There's a few animals that need a visual tune-up (looking at you, Malayan Tapir...), but the only animal that I think is not deserving of a place on the roster is the Himalayan Brown Bear. Here's why.

1. It's redundant: we already have the Grizzly Bear, which is much more iconic and comes from a less-represented continent (North America). I don't have issues with the Aldabra Tortoise or Siberian Tiger, though. Probably because they're common in captivity.
2. It looks bad: Aside from size, the HBB and the Grizzly are basically the same animal visually. Never mind that IRL Himalayan Brown Bears look significantly different from Grizzlies.
3. It ruined bears for some fans: I saw some people on the PZ subreddit upset that the Sun Bear was added to the game in the Southeast Asian Animal Pack because "we have too many bears." I also saw an article from TheGamer saying that they didn't want Polar Bears in the Arctic Pack for similar reasons (OK, it was a bad article that said that they didn't want any of the animals we actually got in the Arctic Pack, but still). Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that we wouldn't have complaints like this if the HBB wasn't added. I'd be down for all 8 bear species to be added to PZ, but I know some people wouldn't like that, and I blame the HBB.

So, what would I replace this largely-redundant animal with? The American Black Bear. Totally different from the Formosan Black Bear, it's another North American Species, it has hella color variation potential, and it would be super-helpful for recreating a lot of North American zoos. We might get it in a future DLC, but I have my doubts.
So yeah, Himalayan Brown Bear is not good. Sue me.

 

Totally agree. The American black bear is very underrated, and we haven't (officially) had it in a zoo builder since the very first Zoo Tycoon.

 

Well, it was in Zoo Tycoon for the XBox, but you don’t really “build” in that game, so…

 

We do not speak of the accursed one here!
We don't want to offend those who are faint of heart

 

lol

 

Base game

• African spurred tortoise - replaces Aldabra giant tortoise
• Blackbuck - replaces springbok
• Spectacled bear - replaces Himalayan brown bear
• Central bearded dragon - replaces Brazilian wandering spider
• Giant African millipede - replaces Brazilian salmon pink tarantula
• Hercules beetle - replaces titan beetle
• King cobra - replaces common death adder
• Madagascar hissing cockroach - replaces giant burrowing cockroach
• Panther chameleon - replaces Lesser Antillean iguana

Arctic Pack

• Arctic fox - replaces Arctic wolf

Australia Pack

• Tasmanian devil - replaces dingo

SEA Animal Pack

• Lowland anoa - replaces dhole
• Burmese/Reticulated python - replaces giant Malaysian leaf insect

NA Animal Pack

• Wolverine - replaces Arctic fox

Wetlands Animal Pack

• Alligator/Common snapping turtle - replaces spectacled caiman
• Fishing cat - replaces Nile lechwe
• Pere David's deer - replaces wild water buffalo

The SA, Africa and Conservation Packs remain the same

 

I agree with all this except I think that Reticulated pythons should be a habitat species.

 

Good thing one of these animals is now in the game!

 

yeah, i predicted the future lol.

 

Twillight Pack:
1- African Civet
2- Aye Aye
3- Barred Owl
4- Common Wombat
5- Egyptian Fruit Bat
6- Fossa
7- Leopard Gecko
8- Nine Banded Armadillo
9- Night Monkey
10- Raccoon
11- Red Fox
12- Striped Skunk
13- Senegal Bushbaby
14- Spectral Tarsier
15- Tasmanian Devil

 

Base game species

• African Savannah Elephant
• Grizzly Bear
• Plains Zebra
• Hippopotamus
• Ring Tailed Lemur
• Galapagos Giant Tortoise
• Reticulated Giraffe
• Western Chimpanzee
• African Wild Dog
• Cheetah
• Orinoco crocodile - Replaces Saltwater crocodile
• Springbok
• Eastern white-bearded wildebeest - Replaces Black wildebeest
  
• Lesser Antillean Iguana
• Indian Peafowl
• Boa Constrictor
• Sumatran tiger - Replaces Bengal Tiger
• Brazilian Wandering Spider
• Spotted Hyena
• Bactrian Camel
• Green Iguana
• Bornean Orangutan
• Common Ostrich
• Common Warthog
• Lehmann's Poison Frog
• Snow Leopard
• Aldabra Giant Tortoise
• Goliath Birdeater
• Titan Beetle
• Yellow Anaconda
• Indian Rhinoceros
• Okapi
• Indian Elephant
• Gharial
• Pronghorn Antelope
• Aardvark
• Mandrill
• Baird's Tapir
• Spectacled bear - Replaces Himalayan Brown Bear
• Goliath Frog
• Giant Forest Scorpion
• Gemsbox
• Cape buffalo
• Red Panda
• Western Lowland Gorilla
• Sable Antelope
• American Black Bear - Replaces Formosan Black Bear
• Nile Monitor
• Golden Poison Frog
• Bongo
• Bonobo
• Chinese Pangolin
• Giant Tiger Land Snail
• Siberian Tiger
• Greater Flamingo
• Giant Panda
• Nyala
• Brazilian Salmon Pink Tarantula
• Eastern Brown Snake
• Giant Desert Hairy Scorpion
• Red Ruffed Lemur
• Japanese Macaque
• Amazonian Giant Centipede
• Gila Monster
• Puff Adder
• Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
• Common Death Adder
• American Bison
• Goliath Beetle
• Giant Burrowing Cockroach
• Mexican Red Knee Tarantula
• Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur
• Pygmy Hippo - Now part of Base game
• Komodo Dragon - Now part of Base game
• Thomson's Gazelle - Now part of Base game
• Diana Monkey - New species added
• African Dwarf Crocodile - New species added
• Lappet-faced Vulture - New species added

Deluxe Pack species

• Visayan warty pig - Replaces Pygmy Hippo
• Southern tamandua - New species added
• False Gharial - Replaces Pygmy Hippo
• Speke's Gazelle - Replaces Thomson's Gazelle
• Blackbuck - New species added
• DeBrazzas Monkey - New species added
• Black howler monkey - New species added
• Helmeted curassow - New species added
• Gelada - New species added

Arctic Pack species

• Polar Bear
  
• Reindeer
• Arctic Fox - Replaces Arctic Wolf
• Dall Sheep

South America Pack

• Llama
• Jaguar
• Giant Anteater
• Red-Eyed Tree Frog
• Colombian White-Faced Capuchin Monkey
  
• Squirrel monkey - New species added
• Guanaco - New species added
• Scarlet macaw - New species added
• Hoffman's two-toed sloth - New species added
• Toco toucan - New species added
• Military macaw - New species added
• Hyacinth macaw - New species added
• Ocelot - New species added
• Andean Condor - New species added
• Scarlet Ibis - New species added
• Humboldt penguin - New species added
• Patagonian mara - New species added

Australia Pack

• Red Kangaroo
• Dingo
• Southern Cassowary
• Eastern Blue Tongued Lizard
• Koala
  
• Western Grey Kangaroo - New species added
• Emu - New species added
• Red-necked Wallaby - New species added
• Matschie's tree kangaroo - New species added
• Laughing kookaburra - New species added
• Saltwater Crocodile - Now part of Australia Pack

Aquatic Pack

• King Penguin
• Giant Otter
• Grey Seal
• Cuvier's Dwarf Caiman
• Diamondback Terrapin
• Tufted puffin - New species added
• West Indian manatee - New species added
• Atlantic puffin - New species added
• Horned puffin - New species added
• Nile Crocodile - New species added
• Gentoo penguin - New species added
• Chinstrap penguin - New species added

Southeast Asia Animal Pack

• Sun Bear
  
• Clouded Leopard
• Francois' leaf monkey - Replaces Proboscis Monkey
• Malayan Tapir
• North Sulawesi Babirusa
• Binturong
• Dhole
• Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect
• Silvered leaf monkey - New species added
• Indian Guar - New species added
• Malayan tiger - New species added
• Indian Muntjac - New species added
• Elds Deer - New species added
• Chital - New species added
• Nilgai - New species added
• Sambar - New species added
• Javan Banteng - New species added
• Burmese python - New species added
• King cobra - New species added

Africa Pack

• African Penguin
• Meerkat
• Fennec Fox
• Southern White Rhinoceros
  
• Sacred Scarab Beetle
  
• Black Footed Cat - New species added
• Sand Cat - New species added
• Dwarf Mongoose - New species added
• Masai Giraffe - New species added
• Yellow-backed Duiker - New species added
• Red Flanked Duiker - New species added
• Southern Gerenuk - New species added
• Hamadryas baboon - New species added
• Southern Greater Kudu - New species added
• Bontebok - New species added
• Rock Hyrax - New species added
• Nubian Ibex - New species added
• Southern Lesser Kudu - New species added
• East African Eland - New species added
• Black Duiker - New species added
• Southern Roan Antelope - New species added
• Lesser Flamingo - New species added
• Grey Crowned Crane - New species added
• Wattled Crane - New species added
• Congo Peafowl - New species added
• Blue Crane - New species added
• Helmeted guineafowl - New species added
• Crested guineafowl - New species added
• Red River Hog - New species added

North America Animal Pack

• American Alligator
• American Bullfrog
• North American Beaver
• Moose
  
• California Sea Lion
  
• Cougar
  
• Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
• Desert Big Horn Sheep - New species added
• Sandhill Crane - New species added
• Whooping Crane - New species added
• Bald Eagle - New species added

Europe Pack

• Iberian lynx - Replaces Eurasian Lynx
  
• Alpine Ibex
• European Badger
• Fire Salamander
• European Fallow Deer
• European bison - New species added

Wetlands Animal Pack

• Capybara
  
• Platypus
• Common Waterbuck - Replaces Wild Water Buffalo
• Nile Lechwe
  
• Asian Small-Clawed Otter
• Red-Crowned Crane
• Spectacled Caiman
• Danube Crested Newt

Conservation Pack

• Przewalski's Horse
  
• Amur Leopard
• Siamang
• Scimitar-Horned Oryx
• Axolotl
• Grevy's Zebra - New species added
  
• Northern bald ibis - New species added
  
• Pere David's Deer - New species added
• Addra Gazelle - New species added
• Blue-Billed Curassow - New species added
• Somali Wild Ass - New species added
• Rothschild's giraffe - New species added
• Red Wolf - New species added
• Mexican Grey Wolf - - New species added also replaces Timber Wolf
• Eastern Black Rhino - New species added
• Maned Wolf - New species added
• Hartman's Mountain Zebra - New species added

Twilight Pack

• Raccoon
  
• Red Fox
• Common Wombat
• Striped Skunk
• Egyptian Fruit Bat
• Tawny Frogmouth - New species added
• Tasmanian devil - New species added
• Aye Aye - New species added
• Fossa - New species added

 

I have an excellent Bonobo mod that has been 90% finished for years, but there's a model issue and nobody's been willing to take a closer look at it. Still hoping to finish it fully one day.

 

I disagree with your concept pureley because there's an unbalance between the number of species in each pack and some repetitive picks in each of them, and while you did add flying animals to the roster, only one is in the base game, I think if fleshed out a little this concept could be good

 

I think the problem with some of it is that there is less of a realistic plan with the pack sizes and more of just a brainstorm.

 

Awfully bold of you to have all those animals and exclude lions, West African or not.
(I kid, I kid, you probably just forgot to mention them)

 

Yes it's quite to keep track of them all, but what kind of person would I be to exclude the lions

 

i honestly disagree completely of your list, although there is an incredible quantity of animals in both base game and dlcs, i feel like there are should be more unique animals instead of animals that are basically the same of just reskins.

 

Guess we're updating this again...

Base Game

African Elephant
African Lion
African Wild Dog
American Black Bear
Amur Leopard
Asian Elephant
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Bactrian Camel
Bison
Blue Wildebeest
Bornean Orangutan
Cape Buffalo
Capybara
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Galapagos Tortoise
Giant Panda
Greater Flamingo
Grey Wolf
Grizzly Bear
Hippopotamus
Howler Monkey
Indian Peafowl
Indian Rhino
Jaguar
Japanese Macaque
Koala
Komodo Dragon
Lowland Gorilla
Malayan Tapir
Mandrill
Masai Giraffe
Meerkat
Moose
Okapi
Ostrich
Plains Zebra
Polar Bear
Pronghorn
Red Kangaroo
Red Panda
Ring-Tailed Lemur
Saltwater Crocodile
Siberian Tiger
Sichuan Takin
Secretary Bird
Snow Leopard
Spotted Hyena
Warthog
White Rhino

Deluxe Addition:
Gharial
Pygmy Hippo
Red Deer
Red River Hog
Fossa
Tanuki
Thomson's Gazelle

Anniversaries:

Red Ruffed Lemur
Sifaka

Arctic Pack:
Arctic Fox
Musk Ox
Reindeer
Wolverine

South America:
Capuchin
Giant Anteater
Vicuña
Maned Wolf

Australia:
Cassowary
Emu
Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo
Common Wombat

Aquatic
California Sea Lion
Hawaiian Monk Seal
King Penguin
Great White Pelican

Southeast Asia:
Binturong
Clouded Leopard
Siamang
Pere David's Deer
Sumatran Tiger
Sun Bear
Sunda Pangolin

Africa:
African Penguin
Eastern Bongo
Fennec Fox
Ratel

North America:
American Alligator
Beaver
Bighorn Sheep
Cougar
Harbor Seal
Prairie Dog
Elk

Europe:
Alpine Ibex
Badger
Eurasian Lynx
Mute Swan

Wetlands:
Alligator Snapping Turtle
Giant Otter
Cuiver's Dwarf Caiman
Platypus
Shoebill
Sitatunga
White-Naped Crane

Endangered Pack
Chinese Giant Salamander
Mongolian Wild Horse
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
Tasmanian Devil

Twilight Pack:
Racoon
Kiwi
Crested Porcupine
Striped Skunk

I pushed the racoon back here, replaced its place in the North America pack with the elk for more hoofstock and an animal not in Zoo Tycoon. Left wombat in Australia even though they could fit here. Red fox seemed redundant with fennec / arctic / tanuki so I replaced it with two requested nocturnal animals. And I just think the skunks are neat.