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The Official Zoo Designers Hangout; discuss anything relevant to making Zoos
Topic Started: Mar 2 2013, 10:01 PM (175,824 Views)
Esbardo
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Well then in that case this are my recommendations

Eurasia:
-Lions/Cave lions
-Spotted hyena/Cave hyena
-Irish elk
-Reindeer
-Woolly mammoth
-Wolves/Dholes
-Wild horse
-Auroch
-Wisent
-Muskox
-Elasmotherium/Woolly rhino
-Fallow deer/red deer
-Artic fox

Oceania:
-Thylacoleo
-Diprotodon
-Megalania

The americas:
-Giant sloths
-Glyptodons
-Jaguar
-Tapir
-Capybara
-American mastodon
-American bison/Steppe bison
Edited by Esbardo, Oct 27 2017, 03:21 AM.
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Guilmon
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Rob Schneider herp de derp, rated PG-13!

Now I've decided to focus primarily on extinct species that existed around the Pleistocene epoch. Note: Some may have first appeared in a prior period and/or gone extinct in a more recent era.


AFRICA:
Dodo
Ancylotherium
Quagga
Sivatherium

THE AMERICAS:
Short-faced bear
Megatherium
Smilodon fatalis
Columbian Mammoth
Toxodon
Falkland Islands Wolf


EURASIA:
Cave bear
Cave lion
giant short-faced hyena
Irish elk
Woolly rhino
Woolly mammoth
Elasmotherium
Gigantopithecus
Dwarf hippo
Aurochs
Bush-antlered Deer


OCEANIA:
Thylacoleo
Diprotodon
Megalania
Procoptodon
Genyornis
Thylacine
Marsupial tapir
Masrupial Rhino


(It's gonna be huge, even if there are only 29 species)
Edited by Guilmon, Oct 27 2017, 06:02 PM.
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Cowrie
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Do any zoos keep large softshell turtles such as Cantor's giant softshell turtle in outdoor enclosures, excluding stuff like specialized captive breeding facilities found in the turtle's native range? I'm working on a combined herpetarium-aquarium that could really use some more outdoor exhibits, but I'm not sure if something like that would be suited to an outdoor enclosure. There would also be an indoor enclosure for use during bad weather, of course, as well as for use in breeding efforts.
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IMO the issue is that softshells spend most of the time on the floor, so if you just put them in an outdoor pond they'd be pretty hard to see unless you had an underwater viewing area.
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Well, I was thinking a shallow pool viewed from above. That seems to be the standard exhibit type for giant softshells kept indoors.
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Anolis
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Lazarus

Does anyone have any ideas for foliage for a temperate set zoo in winter?
I have the leafless trees and shrubs made by AD as well as a few conifers.
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KoenZoo
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After some time off started building again.

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It will be a small zoo located in The Netherlands. The species list contains 21 species. The idea is to start with this (still need to finish foliage and add scenery to the zoo), but start expanding afterwards and add around 16 more species.
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Sandor "The Hound" Clegane

Just dropping by to announce my first zoo coming out in January 2018! Amazing logo is done by my brother Taigerus4


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KoenZoo
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As for another zoo, for which I'm still working on the species list, I have a section called the Indian Temple. I want to house Indian Leopards, Indian Cobras, Indian Grey Mongooses, Indian Spot-billed Ducks, Indian Muntjacs, Greater Indian Hornbills and Chitals over there. Are there any small species you would suggest to add to this list? The Cobras, Mongooses and Hornbills will be kept inside the temple and the Chitals will share their exhibit with the Muntjacs and Chitals (an electric wire will make sure the Muntjacs/Chitals will stay in their exhibit).
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Furka
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Perhaps Langurs or some other monkeys ?
Also peafowls, despite being common zoo animals they are still one of India's icons.
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Would you suggest to keep them together with the Chital or Muntjac or give them their own exhibit? Also the idea of the Langurs is a nice idea.
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Sandor "The Hound" Clegane

Peafowls are great with other animals. I would suggest you keep them together. And it's also nice for aesthetics
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KoenZoo
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As far as I thought the Black Rhinoceros and the Indian Rhinoceros are solitary living rhinos. Though last week I found a couple of pictures from Indian Rhinoceros in multiple zoos which were with three or more together (so not a male and female for breeding purposes or a female and an "adult" calf). Also I saw Leipzig Zoo kept three Black Rhinoceros together at the same time.

Can somebody please tell me if it is possible to keep those two species of rhinos with multiple specimens together.
Edited by KoenZoo, Dec 2 2017, 04:27 PM.
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ZoologicalBotanist
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Dropping by to announce a new zoo! Bio-Containment Site 66 is a facility dedicated to researching and containing mythological flora and fauna, cryptids, and anomalous animals of all varieties. The first part should be up by Monday!
Edited by ZoologicalBotanist, Dec 2 2017, 08:50 PM.
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Esbardo
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I'm planning on making a recreation of the Madagascar spiny forest and the list of species so far is as follows:

-Ring-tailed lemur
-Collared brown lemur
-Radiated tortoise (not confirmed)
-Dumeril's boa (I'm not completely sure if it can be found in this habitat)

If anyone knows any other species that could fit in the theme then feel free to suggest.
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