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The Official Zoo Designers Hangout; discuss anything relevant to making Zoos
Topic Started: Mar 2 2013, 10:01 PM (175,825 Views)
Cole12345
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future zoologist in the making...

Esbardo
Sep 4 2017, 06:42 AM
Just out of curiosity, if I had a breeding pair of cheetahs and the female had already given birth to cubs could the father be in the same exhibit as them or should he be separated. In big cats (Panthera) as far as I know depends on the individual but it's usually recommended in solitary species like leopards and tigers to separate them, does the same rule apply to the cheetah?
I think they should be separated because the father leaves before the cubs are born in the wild. Also since cheetahs are solitary cats, there may be some aggressiveness possibly if the mother of the cubs doesn't want the father near her cubs.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

That depends on population. Cheetah will even hunt in sibling based packs in some regions. Cheetah in captivity have even been trained alongside domestic dogs to calm them quite successfully.
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Cole12345
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stargatedalek
Sep 4 2017, 10:05 AM
That depends on population. Cheetah will even hunt in sibling based packs in some regions. Cheetah in captivity have even been trained alongside domestic dogs to calm them quite successfully.
Good point since many cheetahs at zoos are supposed to be ambassadors and calm around people :) .
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There are coalition groups of male cheetahs of different ages, so I would imagine that the majority of cheetah males would be fine with It, it just depends on the temperament of the female.
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Sep 4 2017, 03:35 PM
There are coalition groups of male cheetahs of different ages, so I would imagine that the majority of cheetah males would be fine with It, it just depends on the temperament of the female.
Correct, but the males join or form coalitions only after they have become independent of their mother. In short they are almost grown or fully grown, but small cubs are another story.
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Are there any typical "landscaping plants" that also make good food for herbivorous reptiles like iguanas and tortoises or omnivorous reptiles like most skinks? I like the idea of a zoo growing their own food for their animals, and it would be cool if some could be either harvested from the surrounding landscape or even grown inside an enclosure so the animals could forage at will. Zoo in question is in southern Florida, if it matters.
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Not sure that can be properly done, considering reptiles exhibits are usually small so they tend to wreck all edible foliage soon. Only exception I can think of rn would be large outdoor tortoise exibits which give them a nice pasture to graze from.
Prickly pear cactus can be fed to some tortoises, we even have them as placeable food so you could try that.
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To be clear, I wasn't wanting this as a functional mechanic in-game. I was thinking of it as more of a sort of story-telling element. As far as exhibit size, I plan on including a fairly large outdoor enclosure for green iguanas and red-footed tortoises. I mean it'll be mesh-enclosed like an aviary, but still large and outdoors. That's the main exhibit I had in mind, though there will probably be outdoor paddocks for at least a couple of other tortoise species. There might even be outdoor enclosures for some other larger lizard species, like rhinoceros iguanas or blue-tongued skinks. Also meshed over, for protection from predators.
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It really is a struggle. I love this game and always will love it, but I only get the drive to actually play it once every few months.
Then I hype myself up, build some things, and then lose interest again.
Then every time I look at these forums, at all of your beautiful zoos, I want to play again, start up the game, and lose interest within a few minutes.

Does this happen to anyone else? What do you do? Force yourself?
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dycki1231
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Nevermind that question.

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It really is a struggle. I love this game and always will love it, but I only get the drive to actually play it once every few months.
Then I hype myself up, build some things, and then lose interest again.
Then every time I look at these forums, at all of your beautiful zoos, I want to play again, start up the game, and lose interest within a few minutes.

Does this happen to anyone else? What do you do? Force yourself?


A.
Maybe you think that the building technique between you and the post had great difference that you build for a while and find out that you would never reach that level and feel stressed quickly.

B.
You are impressed by that zoo builder and try to create some similar stuff but find out it is too close to the original product. Then, when you apply some changes based on you own idea, the whole image distorted. Then, you feel bored of keep copying others style.

C.
You are highly talented on building the zoo. As you have ability to quickly convert your imagination into gameplay scene, therefore, the time required to build the zoo become less and then you feel bored.


D.
The game mods number is limited to a points you have used to a desired set of decor in your scene.Therefore, in the first time and second time of building a zoo, you will feel yourself are replicating your previous with same combo.Then, the final product turns to be similar in each time. Therefore, you get bored.

E.
Here in the forum, you had secretly felt in love with someone build a brilliant zoo which had never comment your posted zoo. Therefore, at each time you build a zoo, you would keep feeling the failure as you cannot get the attention you wanted. And this prolonged failure makes you bored.
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Edited by dycki1231, Sep 19 2017, 01:44 PM.
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Guilmon
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Rob Schneider herp de derp, rated PG-13!

Trying to build a zoo entirely out of species from the Pleistocene, but need recommendations for less interesting/lesser known megafauna to put in before the more popular ones.
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Esbardo
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It depends if you are going to use extant or extinct animals and of which continent you want to represent.
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Guilmon
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Rob Schneider herp de derp, rated PG-13!

Esbardo
Oct 26 2017, 01:33 AM
It depends if you are going to use extant or extinct animals and of which continent you want to represent.
A mix of both. No specific continents either.
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I was recently asked to make a prehistoric themed Madagascar house for my Youtube channel. The requestor asked for animals like elephant bird, horned crocodile, and lemurs but I was wondering what other animals and plants could I use for the video? Also just before anybody asks he was wanting more of a tropical dry forest feel but since there's not alot of available flora available I was thinking of giving it more of rainforest feel.
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Guilmon
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Rob Schneider herp de derp, rated PG-13!

For my upcoming "Pleistocene Kingdom" I plan on doing four sections (in no particular order):

1. Eurasia
2. Oceania
3. Africa
4. The Americas

Edited by Guilmon, Oct 26 2017, 08:21 PM.
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