Hello! This is my first post on here. I debated putting this in the game portion but decided to put it in fantasy zoos because I felt it fits better. I want to design a fantasy zoo based entirely on mixed species exhibits (no single species exhibits at all). I am limiting the species list strictly to what’s available in planet zoo and the associated mods, in case I were to make it in the game later in the future. I’m looking for ideas! I’m providing a species list here (the taxonomy is loose, I know). The more species that can realistically and comfortably share the same exhibit, the better. Please share your ideas for mixed species exhibits using this roster! I would like to stick to either combinations that have been successfully tried or ones where there is no obvious issue. I know some of these species can not be kept in captivity, and even more can not be kept in mixed species habitats at all, but I might as well put the full list out there. I want to include as many of these species as possible, current captivity status not withstanding. The extinct section is just for fun. So please share your most creative (but realistic!) ideas! Carnivores: Canines: African Wild Dog Arctic Wolf Dhole Dingo Timber Wolf New Guinea Singing Dog Maned Wolf Red Wolf Mexican Gray Wolf Coyote Ethiopian Wolf Black Backed Jackal Eurasian Wolf Tundra Wolf Foxes: Fennec Fox Scandinavian Red Fox Bat Eared Fox Santa Cruz Island Fox Arctic Fox American Red Fox Felines: Cheetah Clouded Leopard Mountain Lion Eurasian Lynx Canada Lynx Jaguarundi Manul/Pallas’s Cat Ocelot Serval Bornean Clouded Leopard Bobcat Panthers: Amur Leopard West African Lion Snow Leopard Siberian Tiger Jaguar Bengal Tiger African Leopard Asiatic Lion Indian Leopard Sumatran Tiger Sri Lankan Leopard Persian Leopard Viverrids/Mongooses/Hyenas: Binturong Meerkat Spotted Hyena Aardwolf Striped Hyena Brown Hyena Banded Mongoose Common Dwarf Mongoose Bears: Asiatic Black Bear Giant Panda Grizzly Bear Himalayan Brown Bear Polar Bear Sun Bear American Black Bear Spectacled Bear Qinling Panda Tibetan Blue Bear Syrian Brown Bear Eurasian Brown Bear Sloth Bear Ussuri Brown Bear Mustelids: Giant Otter North American River Otter Black Footed Ferret European Badger Yellow Throated Marten Asian Small Clawed Otter Wolverine Pinnipeds: Grey Seal Harbor Seal Hawaiian Monk Seal Ribbon Seal Other Carnivores: Red Panda Kinkajou Cozumel Island Raccoon Northern Raccoon Ungulates: Bovines: Cape Buffalo American Bison Holstein Cattle Gaur Asian Wild Water Buffalo Saola Nilgai Scottish Highland Cattle Wood Bison Zebu Suids: Sulawesi Babirusa Common Warthog White Domestic Pig Hampshire Pig Camelids: Bactrian Camel Llama Dromedary Camel Alpaca Guanaco Tapirs: Baird’s Tapir Malayan Tapir South American Tapir Mountain Tapir Antelopes/Gazelles: Black Wildebeest Bongo Gemsbok Nyala Sable Antelope Springbok Thomson’s Gazelle Scimitar Horned Oryx Red Forest Duiker Roan Antelope Arabian Oryx Impala Dama Gazelle Sitatunga Greater Kudu Grant’s Gazelle Blue Wildebeest Gerenuk Zebra Duiker Kirk’s Dik-dik Common Waterbuck Addax Rhim/Slender-Horned Gazelle Cape Bushbuck Blackbuck Sheep/Goats: Dall Sheep Suffolk Sheep Aoudad Nubian Goat Merino Sheep Bighorn Sheep Marco Polo Argali Alpine Goat Pyrenean Chamois Ladakh Urial Alpine Ibex Punjab Urial Transcaspian Urial Markhor Sichuan Takin Chinese Goral Muskox Rhinoceroses: Indian Rhinoceros Southern White Rhinoceros Black Rhinoceros Javan Rhinoceros Hippopotamuses: Nile Hippopotamus Pygmy Hippopotamus Giraffids: Okapi Reticulated Giraffe Equids: Plains Zebra Przewalski’s Horse Somali Wild Ass Persian Onager Grevy’s Zebra Cervids: Reindeer Eastern Moose Fallow Deer Rocky Mountain Elk Peré David’s Deer Chital/Axis Deer Red Deer Pampas Deer White Tailed Deer Roosevelt Elk Other Ungulates: Pronghorn Chiru/Tibetan Antelope Primates: Apes: Bonobo Bornean Orangutan Western Chimpanzee Western Lowland Gorilla New World Monkeys: Columbian White Faced Capuchin Tufted Capuchin Ecuadorian Squirrel Monkey Golden Lion Tamarin Bolivian Grey Titi Black Howler Monkey Eastern Pygmy Marmoset Old World Monkeys: Japanese Macaque Mandrill Proboscis Monkey Barbary Macaque Wolf’s Guenon Red-shanked Douc Prosimians: Red Ruffed Lemur Ringtail Lemur Black and White Ruffed Lemur Hill’s Ruffed Lemur Other Mammals: Elephants: African Bush Elephant Indian Elephant Pangolins: Chinese Pangolin White Bellied Tree Pangolin Anteaters and Relatives: Giant Anteater Southern Tamandua Nine-Banded Armadillo Marsupials: Koala Red Kangaroo Eastern Grey Kangaroo Virginia Opossum Numbat Rodents: Capybara Lesser Capybara Eastern Chipmunk Red Rumped Agouti Yellow-bellied Marmot Others: Aardvark Platypus West Indian Manatee Birds: Penguins: African Penguin King Penguin Chinstrap Penguin Emperor Penguin Little Blue Penguin Adelie Penguin Galapagos Penguin Humboldt Penguin Gentoo Penguin Ratites: Common Ostrich Southern Cassowary Emu Water birds: Greater Flamingo American Flamingo James’s Flamingo Andean Flamingo Lesser Flamingo Chilean Flamingo Scarlet Ibis American White Ibis Landfowl: Indian Peafowl Rhode Island Red Chicken Helmeted Guineafowl Vulturine Guineafowl Great Curassow Waterfowl: Nene/Hawaiian Goose Magpie Goose Mute Swan Black Necked Swan Mallard Duck Black Swan Canada Goose Gadwall Duck Hooded Merganser Ringed Teal Harlequin Duck Common Loon Reptiles: Testudines: Aldabra Tortoise Galápagos Tortoise Green Sea Turtle Red Footed Tortoise Leatherback Sea Turtle Squamata: Lesser Antillean Iguana Green Iguana Komodo Dragon Nile Monitor Española Island Marine Iguana Grand Cayman Blue Iguana Perentie Crocodilians: Cuvier’s Dwarf Caiman Gharial Saltwater Crocodile Spectacled Caiman American Alligator Nile Crocodile African Dwarf Crocodile Tomistoma Fish and Aquatics: Sharks: Sand Tiger Shark Great Hammerhead Shark Blacktip Reef Shark Zebra Shark Sandbar Shark Whale Shark Great White Shark Goblin Shark Leopard Shark Bull Shark Tiger Shark Greenland Shark Basking Shark Scalloped Hammerhead Marine Mammals: Common Bottlenose Dolphin Short Beaked Common Dolphin Orca Tucuxi Pacific White Sided Dolphin Harbor Porpoise Short Finned Pilot Whale Amazon River Dolphin Beluga Whale Spectacled Porpoise Risso’s Dolphin Narwhal Commerson’s Dolphin Freshwater Fish: Arapaima gigas Asian Arowana Oscar Sockeye Salmon Blue Discus Bluegill Red-bellied Piranha Red Tailed Catfish Pumpkinseed Smallmouth Bass Alligator Gar Saltwater Fish: Humphead/Napoleon Wrasse Pacific Cod Kelp Bass Oceanic Sunfish/Mola Mola Others: Atlantic Horseshoe Crab Extinct Animals (just in case you want to have some extra fun with it!) Thylacine Quagga Presbyornis Elephant Bird Woolly Mammoth South Island Giant Moa Dodo Columbian Mammoth Bluebuck Terror Bird
I think one major hurdle to your project is that many of the species you have chosen are predators that are hard to mix together. With some of them, only fish, insects or some other small invertebrate may be safe to mix, which, while interesting, is not very impressive visually, and probably not what you are going for. Also relevant, albeit not directly related to mixed exhibits, is that you have a huge number of bears, big cats, wolves etc. which would be extremely costly, impossible, even, for 1 zoo to hold at the same time. But this is fantasy so I will ignore that. I suggest checking out this highly useful website for examples of carnivore mixed exhibits: Társaskifutók Similarly, this is highly useful for ungulates: http://www.azaungulates.org/s/AZA-Ungulate-TAGs-Mixed-Species-Manual-2017final.pdf You can also search this website’s gallery or forums for mixed exhibits, for example, searching ‘gorilla mix’ or similar will usually give you real life examples.
