Zoo Tycoon Unnecessary Zoo Tycoon 2 Animals

[grevy's zebra]

I like the gerenuk as well. Although the thread is how would you change the original packs, and that is one @Loxodonta Cobra felt should have been shunted. Really it just depends on how you look at the packs and what your favorites are. I basically never use Moose or Gray Wolf, and wouldn't miss them. Same with Goblin Shark in MM.

Although technically with all the mods available nowadays is doesn't particularly matter if you choose to go that route.

I understand the moose and shark but you don’t use the wolf?

 

[Great Argus]

I understand the moose and shark but you don’t use the wolf?

For whatever reason I'm not a fan of large canids other than Maned Wolf. I don't hate them but I don't really love them either. Maned Wolf I do particularly like for whatever reason. Now foxes I like, and that may partly be due to personal experiences with a couple species.

 

[grevy's zebra]

For whatever reason I'm not a fan of large canids other than Maned Wolf. I don't hate them but I don't really love them either. Maned Wolf I do particularly like for whatever reason. Now foxes I like, and that may partly be due to personal experiences with a couple species.

I agree partially. While I like all animals, some I feel are better then others from personal experience. Like, I love Sitatunga antelope because I once fed and petted one.

 

[iluvwhales]

Here's my take, with some inspiration from @Loxodonta Cobra

ZT2
Replace gemsbok with giant anteater
Replace musk ox with southern pudu or black bear
Replace black leopard with generic leopard or clouded leopard
Add koala, gray wolf, caribou, bison, and Komodo dragon
Honorable mentions: Maybe replace emperor penguin with king penguin

Endangered Species
Replace giant sable antelope with giant otter
Replace fennec fox with red-ruffed lemur
Replace gray wolf with dhole
Replace koala with Tasmanian devil
Replace scimitar-horned oryx with Chacoan peccary
Replace Javan rhino with Indian or Sumatran rhino
Replace wolverine with (West African) slender-snouted crocodile
Replace Komodo dragon with gharial
Replace caribou with Bactrian camel
Replace bison with Somali wild ass
Honorable mentions: Maybe replace Florida panther with Key deer, spectacled bear with dog deer

African Adventure
Replace gerenuk with gemsbok
Replace Ethiopian wolf with klipspringer
Replace striped hyena with spotted hyena
Replace Barbary ape with back and white colobus monkey
Replace caracal with serval
Add addax, scimitar-horned oryx, and fennec fox
Honorale mentions: Maybe replace Masai giraffe with foosa

Marine Mania
Replace pilot whale with harbor seal (performs in shows)
Replace false killer whale with dugong
Replace marlin with ocean sunfish
Replace scalloped hammerhead shark with a penguin species (little blue, Humboldt, or African)
Replace goblin shark with giant Pacific octopus
Honorable mentions: Maybe replace narwhal with North American river otter (maybe performs in shows)

Extinct Animals
Replace stokesosaurus with coelophysis
Replace cave lion with terror bird
Replace giant warthog with pachycephalosaurus
Replace bluebuck with protoceratops
Replace deodicurus with toxodon
Replace giant camel with plateosaurus
Replace warrah with megalania
Honorable mentions: Maybe replace mastodon with woolly mammoth and Gigantopithecus with gallimimus

*hog deer, not dog deer

 

[Just an ordinary guy]

Zoo Tycoon 2 original pack:

Lion
Bengal Tiger
Jaguar
Cheetah
Snow Leopard
Amur Leopard
Chimpanzee
Western Lowland Gorilla
Ring Tailed Lemur
African Elephant
Spotted Hyena
Black Rhinoceros
Hippopotamus
Common Zebra
Thomson's Gazelle
Giant Anteater
Dromedary Camel
Moose
Ibex
Reticulated Giraffe
Okapi
Capybara
Red Kangaroo
Giant Panda
Red Panda
Polar Bear
Grizzly Bear
Musk Ox
Addax
Greater Flamingo
King Penguin
Nile Crocodile
American Bison
Przewalski's Wild Horse
Caribou
Baird's Tapir
Gray Wolf
African Wild Dog
Koala
Orangutan
Wolverine
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Komodo Dragon
African Buffalo
Bongo
Wildebeest
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Warthog
Mandrill
Aardvark
Meerkat
California Sea Lion

Endangered Species:

Sonoran Pronghorn
Red-Crowned Crane
Tasmanian Devil
Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
Diana Monkey
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
Dhole
Red-Shanked Douc
Chinese Pangolin
Lar Gibbon
Iberian Lynx
Binturong
Clouded Leopard
Florida Panther
Spanish Lynx
North Sulawesi Babirusa
Dama Gazelle
Dingo
Numbat
Asian Elephant

African Adventure:

Congo Buffalo
Serval
Gerenuk
Impala
Rock Hyrax
Crested Porcupine
Marabou
Red River Hog
African Penguin
Barbary Ape
Gelada
Caracal
Shoebill
African Civet
Ratel
Greater Kudu
Black-Backed Jackal
Common Eland
Nile Monitor
Secretary Bird
Gemsbok
Giant Sable Antelope
Fennec Fox

Marine Mania:

Bottlenose Dolphin
Beluga
Orca
Moonfish
Narwhal
Blue Whale
West Indian Manatee
Pacific Walrus
Marine Iguana
Sea Otter
Blue Marlin
Manta Ray
Great White Shark
Whale Shark
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Harbor Seal
Banded Sea Krait
Green Sea Turtle
Leatherback Sea Turtle

Extinct Animals:

Tyrannosaurus Rex
Carnotaurus
Spinosaurus
Velociraptor
Parasaurolophus
Inostravacenia
Triceratops
Maucrauchenia
Stegosaurus
Kentrosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Sarcosuchus
Dimetrodon
Dodo
Elephant Bird
Kelenken
Wooly Mammoth
Woolly Rhinoceros
Sabre-Toothed Cat
Elasmotherium
Paraceratherium
Giant Ground Sloth
Sivatherium
Brachiosaurus
Great Auk
Apatosaurus
Megaloceros
Glyptodon
Andrewsarchus
Thylacine
Daeodon

 

[CrashMegaraptor]

Not a bad list, but the Spanish Lynx IS the Iberian Lynx.

 

[BetoYoung]

Zoo Tycoon 2 original pack:

Lion
Bengal Tiger
Jaguar
Cheetah
Snow Leopard
Amur Leopard
Chimpanzee
Western Lowland Gorilla
Ring Tailed Lemur
African Elephant
Spotted Hyena
Black Rhinoceros
Hippopotamus
Common Zebra
Thomson's Gazelle
Giant Anteater
Dromedary Camel
Moose
Ibex
Reticulated Giraffe
Okapi
Capybara
Red Kangaroo
Giant Panda
Red Panda
Polar Bear
Grizzly Bear
Musk Ox
Addax
Greater Flamingo
King Penguin
Nile Crocodile
American Bison
Przewalski's Wild Horse
Caribou
Baird's Tapir
Gray Wolf
African Wild Dog
Koala
Orangutan
Wolverine
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Komodo Dragon
African Buffalo
Bongo
Wildebeest
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Warthog
Mandrill
Aardvark
Meerkat
California Sea Lion

Endangered Species:

Sonoran Pronghorn
Red-Crowned Crane
Tasmanian Devil
Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
Diana Monkey
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
Dhole
Red-Shanked Douc
Chinese Pangolin
Lar Gibbon
Iberian Lynx
Binturong
Clouded Leopard
Florida Panther
Spanish Lynx
North Sulawesi Babirusa
Dama Gazelle
Dingo
Numbat
Asian Elephant

African Adventure:

Congo Buffalo
Serval
Gerenuk
Impala
Rock Hyrax
Crested Porcupine
Marabou
Red River Hog
African Penguin
Barbary Ape
Gelada
Caracal
Shoebill
African Civet
Ratel
Greater Kudu
Black-Backed Jackal
Common Eland
Nile Monitor
Secretary Bird
Gemsbok
Giant Sable Antelope
Fennec Fox

Marine Mania:

Bottlenose Dolphin
Beluga
Orca
Moonfish
Narwhal
Blue Whale
West Indian Manatee
Pacific Walrus
Marine Iguana
Sea Otter
Blue Marlin
Manta Ray
Great White Shark
Whale Shark
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Harbor Seal
Banded Sea Krait
Green Sea Turtle
Leatherback Sea Turtle

Extinct Animals:

Tyrannosaurus Rex
Carnotaurus
Spinosaurus
Velociraptor
Parasaurolophus
Inostravacenia
Triceratops
Maucrauchenia
Stegosaurus
Kentrosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Sarcosuchus
Dimetrodon
Dodo
Elephant Bird
Kelenken
Wooly Mammoth
Woolly Rhinoceros
Sabre-Toothed Cat
Elasmotherium
Paraceratherium
Giant Ground Sloth
Sivatherium
Brachiosaurus
Great Auk
Apatosaurus
Megaloceros
Glyptodon
Andrewsarchus
Thylacine
Daeodon

that's a great list, now i will make my own.

 

[BetoYoung]

Zoo Tycoon 2 original pack:
Lion
Aardvark
African Elephant
Alpine Ibex
Bighorn Sheep
American Beaver
Saltwater Crocodile
African Wild Dog
Ring Tailed Lemur
White Rhinoceros
Binturong
Okapi
Bactrian Camel
Western Lowland Gorilla
Bald Eagle
Asian Small Clawed Otter
Capybara
Chimpanzee
American Bison
American Flamingo
Amur Leopard
Asian Water Monitor
Boa Constrictor
Blue Wildebeest
Bornean Orangutan
White Cheeked Gibbon
Lion Tailed Macaque
Black Handed Spider Monkey
Moose
Giant Panda
Grizzly Bear
Polar Bear
Jaguar
Brazilian Tapir
California Sea Lion
Cape Buffalo
Iberian Lynx
Toco Toucan
King Vulture
King Penguin
Hamadryas Baboon
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Cheetah
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Komodo Dragon
Plains Zebra
Southern Giraffe
Gemsbok
Ostrich
Walrus
Spotted Hyena
Wolverine
Warthog
Meerkat
Saltwater Crocodile
Red Panda
Red Kangaroo
Red Fox
Red Deer
South American Coati
Red Eyed Tree Frog
Green Iguana
Green Anaconda
Lion
Bengal Tiger
Green Winged Macaw
Blue And Yellow Macaw
Mute Swan
King Vulture
Collared Peccary
Red Howler Monkey
Koala
Peafowl
Gray Wolf
Emu
Boa Constrictor
Giant Anteater
Llama
Serval
Snow Leopard
White Rumped Vulture

 

[BetoYoung]

Zoo Tycoon 2 original pack:

Lion
Bengal Tiger
Jaguar
Cheetah
Snow Leopard
Amur Leopard
Chimpanzee
Western Lowland Gorilla
Ring Tailed Lemur
African Elephant
Spotted Hyena
Black Rhinoceros
Hippopotamus
Common Zebra
Thomson's Gazelle
Giant Anteater
Dromedary Camel
Moose
Ibex
Reticulated Giraffe
Okapi
Capybara
Red Kangaroo
Giant Panda
Red Panda
Polar Bear
Grizzly Bear
Musk Ox
Addax
Greater Flamingo
King Penguin
Nile Crocodile
American Bison
Przewalski's Wild Horse
Caribou
Baird's Tapir
Gray Wolf
African Wild Dog
Koala
Orangutan
Wolverine
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Komodo Dragon
African Buffalo
Bongo
Wildebeest
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Warthog
Mandrill
Aardvark
Meerkat
California Sea Lion

Endangered Species:

Sonoran Pronghorn
Red-Crowned Crane
Tasmanian Devil
Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
Diana Monkey
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
Dhole
Red-Shanked Douc
Chinese Pangolin
Lar Gibbon
Iberian Lynx
Binturong
Clouded Leopard
Florida Panther
Spanish Lynx
North Sulawesi Babirusa
Dama Gazelle
Dingo
Numbat
Asian Elephant

African Adventure:

Congo Buffalo
Serval
Gerenuk
Impala
Rock Hyrax
Crested Porcupine
Marabou
Red River Hog
African Penguin
Barbary Ape
Gelada
Caracal
Shoebill
African Civet
Ratel
Greater Kudu
Black-Backed Jackal
Common Eland
Nile Monitor
Secretary Bird
Gemsbok
Giant Sable Antelope
Fennec Fox

Marine Mania:

Bottlenose Dolphin
Beluga
Orca
Moonfish
Narwhal
Blue Whale
West Indian Manatee
Pacific Walrus
Marine Iguana
Sea Otter
Blue Marlin
Manta Ray
Great White Shark
Whale Shark
Scalloped Hammerhead Shark
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Harbor Seal
Banded Sea Krait
Green Sea Turtle
Leatherback Sea Turtle

Extinct Animals:

Tyrannosaurus Rex
Carnotaurus
Spinosaurus
Velociraptor
Parasaurolophus
Inostravacenia
Triceratops
Maucrauchenia
Stegosaurus
Kentrosaurus
Ankylosaurus
Sarcosuchus
Dimetrodon
Dodo
Elephant Bird
Kelenken
Wooly Mammoth
Woolly Rhinoceros
Sabre-Toothed Cat
Elasmotherium
Paraceratherium
Giant Ground Sloth
Sivatherium
Brachiosaurus
Great Auk
Apatosaurus
Megaloceros
Glyptodon
Andrewsarchus
Thylacine
Daeodon

in my mind, i would do the same thing, in my opinion i don't think i would change something

 

[CrashMegaraptor]

At least Zoo Tycoon 2 doesn't have as many unnecessary animals as the Xbox version.

 

[BetoYoung]

This one is for all zoo tycoon fans. There’s already a thread like this on ZT2 Round Table, so I thought that I'd make a version on zoochat. There are 130 animals in Zoo Tycoon 2, however for any zt gamers out there, were there any animals that just made you go what? And if there are, what would you replace them with and why? There are alot of animals that the games didn’t add obviously, but I feel like a lot of these choices are sturgeon’s law. You can move animals around from one expansion pack to another.


Zoo Tycoon 2 - This is the game that I would change the least out of the five as it does a great job featuring animals that would be expected to be seen in zoos across the world. However, there are species that I would change in favor of others.


. American Beaver - beavers are iconic and well known, but their hardly seen in the biggest zoos. I’d replace them with a capybara: they can go in wetland biome, and this would make the jaguar no longer the only animal from Latin America.

. Black Rhinoceros - I would replace this with the white rhinoceros from African Adventures as they’re more common in more ways than one.

. Emperor Penguin - Emperors though perhaps the most popular penguin species to the general public, are one of the rarest penguin species in captivity. I’d replace it with a humboldt penguin, as it’s far more common in zoos.

. Gemsbok - Even without African Adventure, the original zoo tycoon is biased in favor of African animals. I’d replace the gemsbok with a giant anteater as we get a scrubland/savannah animal that isn’t African and is popular to the zoo public.

. Mountain Gorilla - Really? The mountain gorillas are popular, but the western lowland gorillas are the only species that are breed in captivity in the Western world.


Besides these, I would actually add animals from other expansion packs into the original one because they’re all animals that I would expect to see as a generic, non-enthusiast visitor. I’s add the:

. California Sea Lion (MM)

. Meerkat, Warthog, Bongo, Mandrill & Blue Wildebeest (AA)

. African Wild Dog, American Bison, Gray Wolf, Komodo Dragon, Galapagos Tortoise, Bornean Orangutan, & Koala (ES)


Bonus:

. Black Leopard - Why do they just have the color morph and not the actual species or subspecies? I would choose an Amur leopard so that we have an actual subspecies.

. Addax - Move to African Adventure and replace it with a black bear. The asiatic one was supposed to have been a download, but was removed from the zt2 website, so I would prefer the American species as it’s much more common in zoos in the west.

. Musk Ox - This is a very unusual choice for a species to be bonus content in zt2; they aren't really that common in captivity per say. I’d replace it with the caribou from ES, that way we keep the tundra biome and have at least one more deer in the game after the moose.


Endangered Species - I know that a lot of the animals whose conservation status isn’t threatened are species that were brought back from extinction because of ex-situ conservation, but I still think that there are rarer species that could’ve been selected. With so much of the original game, and African Adventures focusing on African fauna, I tried to focus Endangered Species on North and South America, Oceania, Far East, and Southeast Asia.


. African Wild Dogs - Now that they’re in the original game, i’d replace it with a dhole, a one of the rarer of the large canines not just in the wild, but in zoos as well.

. American Bison - Replace with a species of takin, which has yet to make an official appearance in any of the zt games.

. Black-Crested Gibbon - It’s a good choice, but i’m trying to choose species that are present in captivity at the moment and there isn’t any of these gibbons in any collections that i’m aware of. I’d choose a siamang to replace them.

. Bornean Orangutan - I’ll choose a species of spider monkey to replace them; New world primates are non-existent in zt2.

. Caribou - Replace with a pere david’s deer. Extinct in the wild, biome is wetlands, and is a large and attractive species.

. Fennec Fox - Why BlueFang? Why did you give us such a non-threatened canine to be our small canine species for the game. I would choose an Island Fox over a fennec.

. Giant Sable Antelope - Enough with the African megafauna already. I’d replace it with a saiga, so that we get a creature that can share the temperate grasslands with the bison and wild horses whilst being critically endangered.

. Gray Wolf - Wolves are a great species for highlight conservation success stories on, but there are other canine species to choose from besides the gray wolf. And there are even more species to choose from besides canines. I’d pick a kakapo to replace it.

. Galapagos Tortoise - Replace with a Chinese giant salamander, there are no amphibians in the game, and it make one heck of a great animal to have.

. Javan Rhinoceros - Javan rhino numbers are actually rising which is great. The other Indonesian rhino species, the Sumatran rhino is still on the decrease, so I would pick it, as it’s also a more interesting animal visually and taxonomically.

. Koala - Replace with a Tasmanian devil, They’re just starting to make a comeback in the west.

. Komodo Dragon - With the changes made up to this point, we have crocs, lizards, and tortoises in the game, yet we still lack snakes. Seeing how this is endangered species, I’ll choose a king cobra, despite not really having any sophisticated way to keep it.

. Markhor - We have multiple animals from the alpines of Asia, and this will be the last: a golden snub-nosed monkey, as we don’t have a primate that isn’t from a rainforest up until this point.

. Spectacled Bear - There are already four bear species in the original game with my change, it makes no sense to have any more. I would choose a whooping crane so that we get another North American Animal, and as well as a bird which was absent from the pack. Seriously though, Blue Fang seemed scared of having animals that can fly(there were only 9 avian species in the game series).


There are two animals that I would add to this game: the pacific walrus and the sea otter from MM.


African Adventure - This expansion pack is the lowest rated of the five and it’s easy to see why, I have-heartingly expected to see some form of new gameplay, but pretty much the same stuff is copied from Endangered Species(case in point the elevated paths, jeep safaris ect). And a lot of the animals that were chosen were uninspiring to me as a kid. Some of which occured in more places than Africa. I’m going to try to focus this to Africa-only animals, while trying focusing on ungulates.


. African Spurred Tortoise - Who thought that this was a good idea? I would love to replace it with another bird species such as a shoebill.

. Blue Wildebeest - Replace with a giant eland, as it’s a interesting animal due to its size and rarity.

. Bongo - Replace with a klipspringer, so that we have another african alpine animal besides the gelada and ethiopian wolf.

. Caracal - Come on? You choose one of the cats who’s range extends outside of Africa? I would choose a black-footed cat to replace it.

. Mandrill - There was a large lack of primates that were mostly arboreal in this expansion pack, and Africa has some really great primate species. To replace the mandrill, I would settle on a species of colobus.

. Masai Giraffe - This was just completely unnecessary. We already have a giraffe subspecies, and the Masai’s only represented in in North American collections under the AZA. I would replace it with a crested porcupine so that we get a temperate forest animal like the barbary macaque.

. Meerkat - I would like to have another madagascan animal in the game, and since we already have a lemur, I’d choose a fossa to replace the meerkat.

. Nile Monitor - What is it with this expansion and making species in the same family as their ES counterparts instead of choosing different herps? Since the monitor is a wetland animal, I’d replace it with a species of lechwe.

. Striped Hyena - Why did they replace the spotted hyena from the original zt2 game with this species? I’d think a social spotted hyena would be more enriching to visitors as opposed to the more solitary striped hyena.

. Warthog - I would choose one of the African species of pangolins. They’re an endangered group with alot of education & conservation value to them, they've just been exported to zoos in the AZA, and there isn't a zt2 game that comes with them.

. White Rhinoceros - This is now in the original zt2, and I personally wouldn’t place the black rhino here. I feel like that would be oversaturation. I would choose a hyrax species to replace it since we get another small mammal in the series and it could go into exhibits with the Gelada(Baboon Mountain anyone?).


Marine Mania - Half of the animals on this expansion pack consisted of six toothed whales, and five sharks. There’s so many unique and iconic choices that could’ve been chosen in marine life that this expansion is wholly underrepresented in the diversity of life. Also, what are there whale and great white sharks in benthic biome? I know that they can dive down to those depths, but I wouldn’t place them in it as their permanent/prefered habitat. If there was another expansion pack that needed thirty animals like the original game, this would be the one.


Blue Marlin - This animal isn’t in captivity at all; it makes no sense to have it in an aquarium where in reality it would bang its head against the wall and kill itself. Also it’s our only bony fish in the whole game. I would replace it with an ocean sunfish because we’d get a fish species that can actually go into aquarium and it’s also pelagic.

. Blacktip Reef Shark - Like I said, there are way too many sharks, especially since there's only twenty slots available. However, it would be good if we had another cartilage fish species like a sawfish species.

. California Sea Lion - Now that the sea lion and walrus are gone, I want to choose some of the rarer pinniped species in captivity, and I’d replace the sea lion with a elephant seal species like in the original game.

. False killer whale - If we are going to have six cetaceans, there should be more diversity to them than all toothed whales. As unrealistic as it is, one of the larger baleen whale species would be a very interesting choice. I’ll replace the false killer whale with a humpback.

. Goblin Shark - Another group of animals that is absent from Marine Mania is invertebrates. I’ll replace the goblin shark with a giant pacific octopus due to its benthic habitat and its familiarity with the general public.

. Narwhal - Replace with a leopard seal so that we keep that polar animal spot, plus it would be more realistic to have since leopard seals were in captivity until four years ago, while narwhals die soon after going into captivity.

. Leatherback Sea Turtle - I love leatherbacks, but I don’t see a reason as to why we need to have two sea turtles in a twenty animal species list. I’d replace it with another marine reptile that is never kept in captivity, a marine iguana.

. Pacific Walrus - With this gone, I’ll choose one more pinniped, a hawaiian monk seal due to its rarity and uniqueness.

. Sea Otter - Wildlife Park 2 had japanese spider crabs in its expansion pack, why not have it in this? It would be our only crustation, and it would be a benthic animal like the octopus.

. Short-finned Pilot Whale - I’m going to take a break from the concept of “Marine” Mania for a second and choose an animal that belongs in freshwater. We have a number of semi-aquatic freshwater animals in the game but we don’t have any fully-aquatic ones. My choose is an amazon river dolphin because even though it keeps us at six cetaceans and is currently down to one animal in the Western world, I find it more charismatic as a species than a gar or catfish. And besides, it’d be cool to have a river dolphin there at all.

. Rockhopper Penguin - We already have a penguin species for the original game, and there are far more seabirds than just penguins. My choice, as obscure as it may be, would be an albatross species.


Extinct Animals - Where do I begin with this one? Supposedly BF was in a hurry to release this expansion pack, which is why so many animals look, and have the same animations as others before them. I know that there are some people here who think that zoo tycoon shouldn’t delve into extinct species, but despite this I actually have a soft spot for EA. I love paleontology and extinct fauna, and I know that this game was out around the time when Jurassic Park Operation Genesis was the dominant dinosaur park-keeping game. I feel like the creators had a sense of this and it could possibly explain their animal choice for this game. Extinct Animals focuses on prehistoric mammals and birds as opposed to dinosaurs, which is great, and I personally think that there needs to be more games and other media focusing on other extinct animals besides dinosaurs. However, they choose some of the least interesting species possible for their list, and there is a lot of representation of certain taxons. Not counting the two bonus animals, Zt2 EA is made up of 12 dinosaurs, 20 pleistocene-holocene mammals and birds, 1 permian synapsid, and 1 mesozoic croc. This game should’ve had at least 50 species realistically to cover even a fraction of the massive scope of prehistory.


. American Mastodon - Honestly, this was one of the best animals in the game, however its appearance and needs really made it a hairy asian elephant. I think more people wanted a woolly mammoth above any other proboscidean.

. Short-faced Bear - This species, despite being a fast moving, grassland inhabitant in reality, was shown as a polar bear on steroids. There are many unique and fascinating giant mammalian carnivores to choose from, my favorite pick being an andrewsarchus.

. Aurochs - I like how the game focused on recently-extinct species of animals, but did we really need several. It just seems like overkill at that point. Since we’re lacking many fauna from the paleozoic, i’ll add an inostrancevia.

. Bluebuck - Bluebuck were already going extinct before humans came to South Africa. I’d replace it with a macrauchenia for a few reasons: we get an ungulate that is from the miocene, we get an ungulate that isn't related to any other animal, we get an animal that can go into a themed mixed-exhibit with the doedicurus and megatherium already in the game.

. Bush-Antlered Deer - If I wanted to select a prehistoric deer, why not choose a more popular Irish elk as opposed to this species?

. Carnotaurus - This in itself is not a bad choice, but with so many prehistoric animals out there and so little space for them, I would pick a larger more famous theropod. My first choice would be a spinosaurus.

. Cave Lion - While we’re on dinosaurs, there are no pterosaurs in the game. I know BlueFang isn’t big on flying animals, so I’d pick a quetzalcoatlus.

. Deinosuchus - This is one of the worst animal models in the game. It looked like a living cactus. There’s a lack of marine animals in the game, and going off of pterosaurs, I would add at least one extinct sea creature. My first choice for this slot would be a mosasaurus.

. Deinonychus - There are three dromaeosaur species in the game which in my opinion is too many for the amount of animals the creators have set in stone. Velociraptor is the only one that is needed in my opinion, and it’s also the best because it’s perhaps the most accurate looking dinosaur in the game. One group of dinosaurs that is lacking from the game are ornithopods(iguanodonts & hadrosaurs). For this slot, my first choice of ornithopod dinosaur would be an iguanodon.

. Dwarf Sicilian Elephant - Elephants have a rich and incredible history where they came in many different forms, enough with making them standard issue. I’d choose a moeritherium as it’s one of the earliest and most uniquely looking ones.

. Giant Warthog - Who asked for this? No one. Though no longer considered a pig, an entelodont like daeodon would’ve been a lot better than this creature.

. Kentrosaurus - Besides ornithopods, the other major group of dinosaurs that isn’t featured in the game are the sauropods. I wouldn’t feature a brachiosaur or one of the larger titanosaur species. I’d definitely pick a sauropod like an apatosaurus due to its popularity, and that it came from the same formation as the stegosaurus already in the game so it could be mixed with them.

. Protarchaeopteryx - BlueFang took a herbivorous, flightless oviraptorid from a temperate habitat, and made it into an exact replica of their secretary bird from AA. I can think of twenty feathered dinosaurs that would have replaced this creature. The first of these choices would be a microraptor.

. Sivatherium - I would choose one of the more obscure or odd theropods to take its place. My top choice would be a therizinosaurus.

. Stokesosaurus - this dinosaur has nothing to its name besides being a late jurassic era relative of tyrannosaurus. Not only that, BF made it taller than a person when it was only thirteen-feet long. I’d replace it with an allosaurus so that we get a jurassic era carnivore that is large, and it can also hunt the stegosaurus already in the game.

. Styracosaurus - We already have triceratops in the game, another ceratopsian makes it seem like a waste of space. I’d replace it with pachycephalosaurus.

. Giant Camel - Replace with a paraceratherium. I mean really, what else?

. Utahraptor - I want to add one more paleozoic animal to the game, and since the zoo tycoon games in general lack land invertebrates, I’d choose an arthropleura to settle things and it’d be an incredible animal to have.

. Warrah - Again, recently extinct animal that no one asked for, that looks exactly like a red fox in the game. I would replace it with something more unique; a leptictidium.

. Woolly Rhinoceros - My only compliant with this one is that it has the same problem with the mastodon: exact replica of modern animal but with fur. To make it a little more unique while still technically keeping a woolly rhino, i’d replace the coelodonta with an elasmotherium.


Bonus Animals

. Quagga - Another recently extinct animal, I’d replace it with a prehistoric amphibian like diplocaulus.

. Killer Penguin - I know that this animal was created just for laughs, but still, If you’re going to make an expansion pack based on extinct animals, the least that you can do is have actual animals. I’m going to split the killer penguin up and choose two seperate animals in its place: a terror bird like phorusrhacos, and an extinct sea bird like hesperornis.

I agree with everything you said but if i could have the chance of change everything in zoo tycoon 2, i would just replace emperor penguin with the king penguin and insted of adding the bongo to the base game i would add the crested gibbon and the orangutan would no longer being the only primate from asia.

 

[BetoYoung]

At least Zoo Tycoon 2 doesn't have as many unnecessary animals as the Xbox version.

yes, you're right

 

[Brayden Delashmutt]

Here’s my optimal base game roster:

Giant Anteater
Red Kangaroo
Koala
Ostrich
Indian Peafowl
Scarlet Macaw
Toco Toucan
Bald Eagle
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Snow Leopard
Eurasian Lynx
Puma
African Lion
Siberian Tiger
Jaguar
Cheetah
Spotted Hyena
Gray Wolf
American Black Bear
Grizzly Bear
Polar Bear
Red Panda
Giant Panda
California Sea Lion
African Elephant
White Rhinoceros
Meerkat
Reticulated Giraffe
Hippopotamus
Common Eland
Sable Antelope
Thompson’s Gazelle
Blue Wildebeest
Common Warthog
Moose
Caribou
Bongo
Impala
Bactrian Camel
American Bison
Cape Buffalo
Malayan Tapir
Bighorn Sheep
Sichuan Takin
Western Lowland Gorilla
Venezuelan Howler Monkey
Common Squirrel Monkey
Spider Monkey
Bornean Orangutan
Chimpanzee
Ring Tailed Lemur
Sea Otter
Plains Zebra
Preswalski’s Horse
American Beaver

 

[Brayden Delashmutt]

Here’s my optimal base game roster:

Giant Anteater
Red Kangaroo
Koala
Ostrich
Indian Peafowl
Scarlet Macaw
Toco Toucan
Bald Eagle
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Snow Leopard
Eurasian Lynx
Puma
African Lion
Siberian Tiger
Jaguar
Cheetah
Spotted Hyena
Gray Wolf
American Black Bear
Grizzly Bear
Polar Bear
Red Panda
Giant Panda
California Sea Lion
African Elephant
White Rhinoceros
Meerkat
Reticulated Giraffe
Hippopotamus
Common Eland
Sable Antelope
Thompson’s Gazelle
Blue Wildebeest
Common Warthog
Moose
Caribou
Bongo
Impala
Bactrian Camel
American Bison
Cape Buffalo
Malayan Tapir
Bighorn Sheep
Sichuan Takin
Western Lowland Gorilla
Venezuelan Howler Monkey
Common Squirrel Monkey
Spider Monkey
Bornean Orangutan
Chimpanzee
Ring Tailed Lemur
Sea Otter
Plains Zebra
Preswalski’s Horse
American Beaver

as well as greater flamingos and african penguins, two animals I forgot for some reason

 

[dillotest0]

I thought it may be interesting to see which animals of ZT2 I have seen myself.
Zoo Tycoon 2 - Base Game
Grizzly Bear - None of the subspecies, but I have seen brown bears elsewhere, including Welsh Mountain Zoo in 2020
Polar Bear - Riga Zoo, Berlin Tierpark [I don't believe anywhere else?]
American Beaver - None
Dromedary Camel - Zoo de Labenne 2015
Cheetah - Berlin Tierpark, Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae 2022, Marwell various years, Paignton 2022, I think Howletts 2019 too? Maybe more
Chimpanzee - Berlin Zoo 2022, Whipsnade Zoo 2021, Welsh Mountain Zoo 2020, Edinburgh Zoo / Jerusalem Biblical Zoo 2016
Nile Crocodile - Crocodiles of the World 2016/2022, probably also Jerusalem Biblical Zoo 2016
African Elephant - Howletts 2018, Paignton 2017, Tel Aviv Safari Park 2016 .. I don't think any more
Greater Flamingo - Too many examples to list, methinks
Thomson's Gazelle - Tel Aviv Safari 2016
Gemsbok - Berlin Zoo 2022, Whipsnade Zoo 2021
Reiculated Giraffe - Whipsnade?
Mountain Gorilla - None
Hippopotamus - Berlin Zoo 2022, Tel Aviv Safari 2016, Riga Zoo 2015
Ibex - Berlin Zoo + Berlin Tierpark 2022
Jaguar - Berlin Zoo 2022 + Chester Zoo 2017
Red Kangaroo - I believe Riga at one point or another
Ring-tailed Lemur - Too many examples to list
Snow Leopard - Marwell various years, Welsh Mountain Zoo 2020 I think as well, Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae 2022
Lion - Various places, various years
Moose - Berlin Tierpark 2022, Latvia semi-captive at one point
Okapi - Marwell various years, Chester Zoo 2019, London Zoo 2016/2021, Berlin Zoo 2022
Ostrich - Tel Aviv Safari 2016, Paignton Zoo 2017, Marwell various years, Welsh Mountain Zoo 2020, Whipsnade Zoo 2021, Berlin Zoo 2022 [Cotswold Wildlife Park also?]
Giant Panda - Edinburgh 2016, Berlin Zoo 2022
Red Panda - Various places, various years
Indian Peafowl - Too many examples to list
Emperor Penguin - None
Black Rhinoceros - Howletts 2019, Paignton 2017
Bengal Tiger - None of these sub-species, but I have seen the species various times
Grant's Zebra - Too many examples to list
Addax - Marwell various years, Berlin Tierpark 2022
Asiatic Black Bear - Tel Aviv Safari 2016
Asiatic Elephant - Berlin Zoo 2022, Whipsnade Zoo 2021 [earlier years as well], Chester Zoo 2019, Tel Aviv Safari + Jerusalem Biblical Zoo 2016
Black Leopard - Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae 2022
Muskox - Berlin Tierpark 2022
30/35 - Not bad !
Endangered Species
Giant Sable Antelope - None of this subspecies, though I have seen Sable Antelope on few occasions
Spectacled Bear - Chester Zoo 2019
American Bison - Berlin Tierpark + Berlin Zoo 2022
Caribou - None of the barren-ground species ingame, nor of any North American sub/species. I have seen domestic and Eurasian reindeer on various occasions.
Fennec - Berlin Zoo 2022, Tel Aviv 2016, Probably Riga Zoo 201X as well
Crested Gibbon - As per recent changes in taxonomy, none - though the older scientific name and animal ingame seems to refer to the Northern White-Cheeked Gibbon, which I have seen.
Przewalski's Wild Horse - Berlin Tierpark 2022, Whipsnade 2021, Welsh Mountain Zoo 2020, Marwell various years, any more?
Koala - Edinburgh 2016
Komodo Dragon - Crocodiles of the World 2022, London Zoo 2021, Tel Aviv 2016
Spanish Lynx - None
Markhor - Berlin Tierpark 2022
Orangutan - Berlin Zoo 2022, Chester Zoo + Paignton Zoo 2017, Tel Aviv Safari + Jerusalem Biblical Zoo 2016
Scimitar-horned Oryx - Marwell various years, Berlin Zoo 2022 [I think also Tel Aviv]
Florida Panther - None
Javan Rhinoceros - None
Baird's Tapir - None
Galapagos Giant Tortoise - Crocodiles of the World 2022, possibly also Riga Zoo
African Wild Dog - Berlin Zoo 2022, London 2021 [I think 2016 too?], Chester Zoo 2019, I'm not sure any more
Gray Wolf - Most recently at Cotswolds Wildlife Park 2023, though other places as well probably
Wolverine - Cotswolds Wildlife Park various years, and also Whipsnade Zoo 2021
13/20 Mm... could be better
African Adventure
Aardvark - Chester 2019, London Zoo 2016
Barbary Ape - Edinburgh 2016
Secretary Bird - None that I can recall
Bongo - Marwell various years, Whipsnade 2021, and also Berlin Zoo 2022
African Buffalo - I have seen the Savannah subspecies at Tierpark Berlin, and the Congo species at the Tierpark, Berlin Zoo, Marwell, Chester possibly
Caracal - Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae 2022
Gelada - Berlin Tierpark 2022, Howletts 2019
Gerenuk - Berlin Tierpark 2022
Masai Giraffe - None
Pygmy Hippopotamus - Marwell various years, Bristol Zoo 2018, Edinburgh 2016, London 2016, Berlin Zoo 2022
Striped Hyaena - Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae 2022
Mandrill - I believe only at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo and Tel Aviv Safari in 2016
Meerkat - Far too many examples to list
Nile Monitor - I don't think I have
Ratel - Howletts 2019, Wildkatzenzentrum Felidae 2022
White Rhinoceros - Cotswolds Wildlife Park various years, Marwell various years, Whipsnade 2021, Tel Aviv Safari 2016, Any more?
African Spurred Tortoise - Crocodiles of the World 2016 [possibly 2022], possibly elsewhere given their regularity
Warthog - London [2016, 2021, earlier?], Berlin Zoo [2022], Marwell? [at most, probably a small amount of warthog behind the house walls]
Wildebeest - Tel Aviv Safari 2016
Ethiopian Wolf - None
16/20 - Looks good !
Marine Mania
Rockhopper Penguin - Whipsnade Zoo 2021
California Sea Lion - Welsh Mountain Zoo 2020
Blacktip Reef Shark - Various aquaria, most recently at Berlin Zoo-Aquarium in 2022
Green Sea Turtle - I believe Biarritz Aquarium at one point or another
[literally just these 4 - I don't believe I have seen any of the others in this pack.]
4/20 [well, they included narwhals and goblin sharks .. am I to blame?]
Extinct Animals

0/36 - You expected any more?

 

[ZooElephantMan]

I started playing Zoo Tycoon 2 again this week, and wanted to share my thoughts on this old thread. My main focus is on the species roster for Marine Mania, since in my opinion this is one of the species rosters that needs the most work (how does it include zero fish, besides sharks and rays?!).

First of all, I would remove the following 8 species from the game’s original animal roster:

1. Great White Shark (Benthic)
2. Goblin Shark (Benthic)
3. Blue Marlin (Pelagic)
4. Leatherback Sea Turtle (Pelagic)
5. Narwhal (Tundra)
6. False Killer Whale (Coastal)
7. Short-Finned Pilot Whale (Pelagic)
8. Rockhopper Penguin (Coastal)

Many of those species (the 2 shark species, marlin, narwhal, and leatherback sea turtle) would be replaced for the sake of realism, since those species are all generally not successful in captivity in real life. The false killer whale and short-finned pilot whale would be removed for the sake of taxonomic diversity, since the game does not need 6 different types of cetaceans.

Now, I will detail my plan for what to replace those 8 species with.

Four of the empty slots will be used for large fish species. In my opinion, the lack of non-shark fish is one of the major downfalls of Marine Mania, so I wanted to address that here. I primarily chose larger fish, since I wanted them to be relatively easily visible in large tanks in the game. Here is the roster:

1. Bluefin Tuna (Pelagic)
2. Great Barracuda (Pelagic)
3. Goliath Grouper (Reef)
4. Green Moray Eel (Reef)

With the addition of those 4 fish, there would still be space for 4 more animals to be added to the game. Here is what I would choose, and why:

1. Harbor Seal (Coastal)- this is one of the most common pinnipeds in captivity (at least in the US), so it felt weird for it to be excluded.
2. African Penguin (Coastal)- I would replace rockhopper penguins with this species, since they are more common in zoos.
3. Giant Pacific Octopus (Benthic)- To add more taxonomic diversity to Marine Mania, I would introduce the game’s first cephalopod.
4. Japanese Spider Crab (Benthic)- In a similar vein to the addition of the octopus, this species would add diversity by introducing the first crustacean to the game.

In all, here is the full list of species I would add to my version of Marine Mania, organized by taxonomy. The 8 species I have added are in red, and the original 12 species are in black:

1. African Penguin (Coastal)
2. Giant Pacific Octopus (Benthic)
3. Japanese Spider Crab (Benthic)
4. Beluga Whale (Tundra)
5. Bottlenose Dolphin (Coastal)
6. Orca (Tundra)
7. California Sea Lion (Coastal)
8. Harbor Seal (Coastal)
9. Pacific Walrus (Tundra)
10. Sea Otter (Coastal)
11. West Indian Manatee (Coastal)
12. Bluefin Tuna (Pelagic)
13. Goliath Grouper (Reef)
14. Great Barracuda (Pelagic)
15. Green Moray Eel (Reef)
16. Manta Ray (Reef)
17. Green Sea Turtle (Coastal)
18. Blacktip Reef Shark (Reef)
19. Scalloped Hammerhead (Pelagic)
20. Whale Shark (Benthic)

Overall, my new list includes 1 bird, 2 invertebrates, 8 marine mammals, 4 fishes, 1 ray, 1 reptile, and 3 sharks. There are 7 coastal species, 3 benthic species, 3 tundra species, 3 pelagic species, and 4 reef species.

So, that is the list I would go with. However, there were a few honorable mentions of animals I would have included if I could put more than 20 in the expansion pack:

1. Tufted Puffin (Tundra)- I would have liked to include more seabirds in the expansion pack. If included, Puffins would be made flightless, since adding flying mechanics is too complex for the game. A pelican species, rather than puffins, was also considered as a bird possibility.
2. Cow Nose Ray (Coastal)- These rays are incredibly common in aquariums, especially in touch tanks, so I would have liked to include them here.
3. Spotted Eagle Ray (Reef)- This was another ray I would have liked to include, because of their beautiful patterns.
4. Largetooth Sawfish (Coastal)- I almost included this species, but replaced it with the Japanese Spider Crab at the very last minute. Their unusual morphology makes them very attractive, and after removing Narwhals and Marlins from the game, it would have felt good to add a different sea creature with a long facial protuberance.
5. Sand Tiger Shark (Coastal)- This is another species I would have liked to include because of how common it is in large aquariums. Nurse sharks were another possibility for another coastal shark species as well.
6. Zebra Shark (Reef)- This is another shark species common in captivity, and their spotted patterns would make them an attractive exhibit animal.
7. Pacific White Sided Dolphin (Pelagic)- If I were to include a fourth cetacean species, this would be it. The cool patterns on these dolphins make them more interesting to me than other cetaceans like pilot whales or false killer whales, for instance. Unfortunately there just wasn’t enough space for another cetacean on the list.
8. Ocean Sunfish (Pelagic)- This was another species that I cut from the list at the last minute. They are a very cool species due to their unusual morphology, but I felt the other fish I added were more valuable inclusions.

 

[ZooTycoonLover2001]

Here's a list of animals I would've included in the base game of Zoo Tycoon 2:

1. African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer) (Savanna)
2. African Bush Elephant (Loxodonta africana) (Savanna)
3. Alpine Ibex (Capra ibex) (Mountain)
4. American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) (Wetland)
5. American Bison (Bison bison) (Grassland)
6. American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) (Deciduous Forest)
7. Arctic Wolf (Canis lupus arctos) (Tundra)
8. Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) (Tropical Rainforest)
9. Bengal Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) (Tropical Rainforest)
10. Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) (Mountain)
11. Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) (Savanna)
12. Blue Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) (Savanna)
13. California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) (Coast)
14. Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) (Savanna)
15. Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa) (Tropical Rainforest)
16. Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) (Tropical Rainforest)
17. Common Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (Savanna)
18. Common Ostrich (Struthio camelus) (Savanna)
19. Common Warthog (Phacochoerus africanus) (Savanna)
20. Dromedary Camel (Camelus dromedarius) (Desert)
21. Eastern Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla beringei graueri) (Tropical Rainforest)
22. Eastern Wolf (Canis lupus lycaon) (Coniferous Forest)
23. Emperor Penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) (Tundra)
24. Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) (Shrubland)
25. Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) (Tropical Rainforest)
26. Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) (Deciduous Forest)
27. Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) (Savanna)
28. Grizzly Bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) (Coniferous Forest)
29. Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) (Deciduous Forest)
30. Jaguar (Panthera onca) (Tropical Rainforest)
31. Leopard (Panthera pardus) (Savanna)
32. Lion (Panthera leo) (Savanna)
33. Mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) (Tropical Rainforest)
34. Markhor (Capra falconeri) (Mountain)
35. Moose (Alces alces) (Coniferous Forest)
36. Nile Crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) (Savanna)
37. North American Beaver (Castor canadensis) (Coniferous Forest)
38. Okapi (Okapia johnstoni) (Tropical Rainforest)
39. Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) (Savanna)
40. Plains Zebra (Equus quagga) (Savanna)
41. Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) (Tundra)
42. Red Kangaroo (Osphranter rufus) (Shrubland)
43. Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens) (Deciduous Forest)
44. Reticulated Giraffe (Giraffa reticulata) (Savanna)
45. Ring-Tailed Lemur (Lemur catta) (Tropical Rainforest)
46. Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) (Coast)
47. Siberian Tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) (Coniferous Forest)
48. Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) (Mountain)
49. Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) (Savanna)
50. Thomson’s Gazelle (Eudorcas thomsonii) (Savanna)

As you can tell, I changed the common names, scientific names, and biome names to be slightly more accurate to what we currently know as well as updating the animal roster somewhat.

 

[BetoYoung]

it's been a year and i changed a lot, so i'm gonna make a definite roster of the species that i would have included if the opportunity was given to me.

 

[BetoYoung]

Zoo Tycoon 2 original pack:
African Elephant
African Wild Dog
Alpine Ibex
American Bison
Australian White Ibis
Bengal Tiger
Blue Wildebeest
Bongo
Bornean Orangutan
California Sea Lion
Capybara
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Dromedary
Emperor Penguin
Galápagos Tortoise
Giant Anteater
Giant Panda
Grant's Zebra
Gray Wolf
Greater Flamingo
Grizzly Bear
Hippopotamus
Hyacinth Macaw
Indian Peafowl
Jaguar
Koala
Komodo Dragon
Lion
Mandrill
Maned Wolf
Meerkat
Moose
Musk Ox
Nile Crocodile
North American River Otter
Okapi
Ostrich
Polar Bear
Red Howler Monkey
Red Kangaroo
Red Panda
Reticulated Giraffe
Rhesus Macaque
Rhinoceros Iguana
Ring-Tailed Lemur
Snow Leopard
South American Coati
Southern Pudu
Southern White Rhinoceros
Thomson's Gazelle
Warthog
Western Lowland Gorilla
Wolverine
Yellow-Throated Marten

Bonus Species:
Alpine Marmot
Asian Elephant
Barbary Macaque
Bighorn Sheep
Blackbuck
Clouded Leopard
Desert Tortoise
Japanese Serow
Javan Langur
Llama
Mute Swan
Perentie
Prevost's Squirrel
Spectacled Bear
Toco Toucan




Endangered Species:
Asiatic Black Bear
Banteng
Binturong
Black-Footed Ferret
California Condor
Chacoan Peccary
Chinese Alligator
Dhole
Egyptian Vulture
European Mink
Florida Panther
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
Gharial
Golden Lion Tamarin
Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
Hawaiian Monk Seal
Iberian Lynx
Kakapo
Large Flying Fox
Malagasy Giant Rat
Malayan Tapir
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
North Sulawesi Babirusa
Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Numbat
Pere David's Deer
Przewalski's Horse
Red Ruffed Lemur
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
Sea Otter
Sichuan Takin
Somali Wild Ass
Steller's Sea Eagle
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Tasmanian Devil
Walrus
White-Cheeked Gibbon
Whooping Crane
Wild Bactrian Camel




African Adventure:
Aardvark
Addax
African Buffalo
African Civet
African Grey Parrot
African Leopard
African Penguin
African Spurred Tortoise
Barbary Sheep
Black-Backed Jackal
Caracal
Coquerel's Sifaka
Crested Porcupine
Diana Monkey
Eastern Black Rhinoceros
Fennec Fox
Fossa
Gelada
Gemsbok
Grey-Crowned Crane
Helmeted Guineafowl
Honey Badger
Kirk's Dik-Dik
Mantled Guereza
Masai Giraffe
Nile Monitor
Olive Baboon
Pygmy Hippo
Radiated Tortoise
Red River Hog
Ring-Tailed Vontsira
Rock Hyrax
Sable Antelope
Secretary Bird
Shoebill
Southern Ground Hornbill
Spotted Hyena
White-Bellied Pangolin
White-Faced Whistling Duck
Yellow-Backed Duiker

Marine Mania:
Amazon River Dolphin
American Crocodile
Arapaima
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Altantic Puffin
Atlantic Swordfish
Beluga
Bluefin Tuna
Bottlenose Dolphin
Brown Pelican
Brown Skua
Common Sawfish
Coypu
Giant Pacific Octopus
Great Barracuda
Great White Shark
Green Moray Eel
Green Sea Turtle
Hammerhead Shark
Harbor Porpoise
Harbor Seal
Humpback Whale
Leopard Seal
Lion's Mane Jellyfish
Manta Ray
Marine Iguana
Nene
North American Beaver
Northern Gannet
Northern Rockhopper Penguin
Ocean Sunfish
Orca
Platypus
Red-Bellied Piranha
Southern Elephant Seal
Spectacled Caiman
Tambaqui
Tiger Shark
West Indian Manatee
Whale Shark



Extinct Animals:
Allosaurus
Andrewsaurus
Ankylosurus
Brachiosaurus
Cave Lion
Chalicotherium
Daeodon
Dimetrodon
Diplocaulus
Dire Wolf
Elasmotherium
Giant Bison
Giant Ground Sloth
Gigantopithecus
Glyptodon
Hesperornis
Iguanodon
Inostrancevia
Irish Elk
Leptictidium
Macrauchenia
Microraptor
Moeritherium
Mosasaurus
Pachycephalosaurus
Paraceratherium
Parasaurolophus
Phorusrhacos
Plesiosaurus
Pterodactyl
Saber-Tooth Tiger
Short-Faced Bear
Spinosaurus
Stegosaurus
Therizinosaurus
Toxodon
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Velociraptor
Woolly Mammoth

As you guys can see i increased the roster to more 100 animals, since the original game with its expansions had 130 animals, now there 230 animals of different species, with this i think the player would have a mix of realism and fantasy, with also with the purpose of educating kids about species they don't know.

 

[BetoYoung]

Zoo Tycoon 2 original pack:
African Elephant
African Wild Dog
Alpine Ibex
American Bison
Australian White Ibis
Bengal Tiger
Blue Wildebeest
Bongo
Bornean Orangutan
California Sea Lion
Capybara
Cheetah
Chimpanzee
Dromedary
Emperor Penguin
Galápagos Tortoise
Giant Anteater
Giant Panda
Grant's Zebra
Gray Wolf
Greater Flamingo
Grizzly Bear
Hippopotamus
Hyacinth Macaw
Indian Peafowl
Jaguar
Koala
Komodo Dragon
Lion
Mandrill
Maned Wolf
Meerkat
Moose
Musk Ox
Nile Crocodile
North American River Otter
Okapi
Ostrich
Polar Bear
Red Howler Monkey
Red Kangaroo
Red Panda
Reticulated Giraffe
Rhesus Macaque
Rhinoceros Iguana
Ring-Tailed Lemur
Snow Leopard
South American Coati
Southern Pudu
Southern White Rhinoceros
Thomson's Gazelle
Warthog
Western Lowland Gorilla
Wolverine
Yellow-Throated Marten

Bonus Species:
Asian Elephant
Barbary Macaque
Bighorn Sheep
Blackbuck
Clouded Leopard
Desert Tortoise
Emu
Eurasian Red Squirrel
Japanese Serow
Javan Langur
Llama
Mute Swan
Perentie
Spectacled Bear
Toco Toucan




Endangered Species:
Asiatic Black Bear
Banteng
Binturong
Black-Footed Ferret
California Condor
Chacoan Peccary
Chinese Alligator
Dhole
Egyptian Vulture
European Mink
Florida Panther
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
Gharial
Golden Lion Tamarin
Golden Snub-Nosed Monkey
Hawaiian Monk Seal
Iberian Lynx
Kakapo
Large Flying Fox
Malagasy Giant Rat
Malayan Tapir
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo
North Sulawesi Babirusa
Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Numbat
Pere David's Deer
Przewalski's Horse
Red Ruffed Lemur
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
Sea Otter
Sichuan Takin
Somali Wild Ass
Steller's Sea Eagle
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Tasmanian Devil
Walrus
White-Cheeked Gibbon
Whooping Crane
Wild Bactrian Camel




African Adventure:
Aardvark
Addax
African Buffalo
African Civet
African Grey Parrot
African Leopard
African Penguin
African Spurred Tortoise
Barbary Sheep
Black-Backed Jackal
Caracal
Coquerel's Sifaka
Crested Porcupine
Diana Monkey
Eastern Black Rhinoceros
Fennec Fox
Fossa
Gelada
Gemsbok
Grey-Crowned Crane
Helmeted Guineafowl
Honey Badger
Kirk's Dik-Dik
Mantled Guereza
Masai Giraffe
Nile Monitor
Olive Baboon
Pygmy Hippo
Radiated Tortoise
Red River Hog
Ring-Tailed Vontsira
Rock Hyrax
Sable Antelope
Secretary Bird
Shoebill
Southern Ground Hornbill
Spotted Hyena
White-Bellied Pangolin
White-Faced Whistling Duck
Yellow-Backed Duiker

Marine Mania:
Amazon River Dolphin
American Crocodile
Arapaima
Asian Small-Clawed Otter
Altantic Puffin
Atlantic Swordfish
Beluga
Bluefin Tuna
Bottlenose Dolphin
Brown Pelican
Brown Skua
Common Sawfish
Coypu
Giant Pacific Octopus
Great Barracuda
Great White Shark
Green Moray Eel
Green Sea Turtle
Hammerhead Shark
Harbor Porpoise
Harbor Seal
Humpback Whale
Leopard Seal
Lion's Mane Jellyfish
Manta Ray
Marine Iguana
Nene
North American Beaver
Northern Gannet
Ocean Sunfish
Orca
Platypus
Red-Bellied Piranha
Southern Elephant Seal
Southern Rockhopper Penguin
Spectacled Caiman
Tambaqui
Tiger Shark
West Indian Manatee
Whale Shark



Extinct Animals:
Allosaurus
Andrewsaurus
Ankylosurus
Brachiosaurus
Cave Lion
Chalicotherium
Daeodon
Dimetrodon
Diplocaulus
Dire Wolf
Elasmotherium
Giant Bison
Giant Ground Sloth
Gigantopithecus
Glyptodon
Hesperornis
Iguanodon
Inostrancevia
Irish Elk
Leptictidium
Macrauchenia
Microraptor
Moeritherium
Mosasaurus
Pachycephalosaurus
Paraceratherium
Parasaurolophus
Phorusrhacos
Plesiosaurus
Pterodactyl
Saber-Tooth Tiger
Short-Faced Bear
Spinosaurus
Stegosaurus
Therizinosaurus
Toxodon
Triceratops
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Velociraptor
Woolly Mammoth

As you guys can see i increased the roster to more 100 animals, since the original game with its expansions had 130 animals, now there 230 animals of different species, with this i think the player would have a mix of realism and fantasy, with also with the purpose of educating kids about species they don't know. Also i made some fix replacing the prevost's squirrel,marmot and nrp for eurasian red squirrel, emu and the southern subspecies of the rockhopper penguin.