What would you recommend as far as replacements? I know there's an exhibit housing Straw-Colored Fruit Bats in a cave alongside Egyptian Fruit Bats and Rodriguez Flying Foxes in the Minnesota Zoo's Tropics Trail...
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My Ideal Zoos (Small, Medium, Large, Misc.)
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Personally, I like the inclusion of the wombat and echidna.
If you really need to squeeze in another species, Seba's short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata). Just be aware that the Rousettus might occasionally snack on their babies.
As evidenced by various failed exhibits and mixes, just because some zoo does it doesn't mean it’s good for the animals.
As evidenced by various failed exhibits and mixes, just because some zoo does it doesn't mean it’s good for the animals.
Such as?
Given that "money is not an issue" in this sandbox mode fictional zoo, instead of the usual large venomous snake species, more obscure(ly camouflaged) snakes such as the wonderful spider-tailed horned viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides) might have been a more original option.
Point 1: branches, epoxy vines, faux strangler-figs, the general height of this enclosure, etc.
Point 2: I'm not sure if those are present in zoos within the US, but I'm definitely open to making that switch if they are!
That's not really enrichment if you don't change/rearrange/modify it regularily. Enrichment for reptiles is fun, but not always that easy.
As for P. urararchnoides: afaik, no zoo keeps them (yet), BUT (and this might trigger someone, again
), they are bred and sold among American and European breeders and keepers more and more often. For exorbitant prices, I might add. But given you have (fictional?) deep pockets, that shouldn't deter you.
Another idea would be to showcase different desert viper species (Cerastes sp., Eristicophis macmahonii, Bitis peringueyi, Crotalus cerastes) parallel to one another to illustrate convergent evolutionary adaptions.
In a metropolitan area within the Eastern United States - like Philadelphia or New York.
