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Thought I'd share some of my zoos I've developed since I started playing classic Zoo Tycoon earlier this week. Also, to be honest I try to approach my designs for exhibits and environments with a "natural" feeling, which is why they might look a bit different from the standards programmed for the actual animals. But in all, I just wanted to show some realistic immersion. Here's my first zoo, the Lebanon National Park Zoo. This nice little zoo features a forest trail adorn with foliage, as well as guest essentials such as picnic stations, a reptile house, amphibian house, a two-story inn with dining services and a gift shop and plenty of fun little attractions for both kids and adults alike. The residential animals are listed below, and I've tagged those I was able to snap a clear shot in my snapshots from their habitats. White-Shoulder Ibis (Pseudibis davisoni) Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) Humboldt Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti) Malayan Porcupine (Hystrix brachyura) Eastern Imperial Eagle (Aquila heliaca) Eurasian Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo) Mountain Paca (Cuniculus taczanowskii) Black Tamarin (Saguinus ursulus) Cotton-Top Tamarin (Saguinus oedipus) Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) African Civet (Civettictis civetta) Indian Peafowl (Pavo cristatus) Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta) Mountain Gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei) Himalayan Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus laniger) North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) Common (Harbor) Seal (Phoca vitulina)

I was trying to look at the screen of that pack, but it is small and I couldn't identify it. Hopefully, that is it. Thanks, lil' Cricket.

Kiang

A smooth sun beam walks across the curtains hanging next to your bed and reaches your face. It knocks at your eyelids. As soon as your brain manages to disband the junction of your eyelashes and starts processing the blurry panorama from your bedroom, your shoulders are already up, holding your head like that mythic character named Atlas. Your body axis does a quarter turn, so your feet touches the cool floor, searching with the tip of your toes for anything to wear. Your knees unfold and your legs take your quivering drowsy being at your door. Once you reach there, your fingers unroll next to a bunch of papers. What's there? Bills, bills, bills... And among all of them, you find a suspicious ivory mail envelope with no data about the sender. It looks pretty flat and sheer that it does not seem it was sent on a post truck nor even touched. Your hand releases all the bills on some table near there, and you start your way to your date with a warm cup, wherewith a full inspection of that packet will begin! A rip breaks the serenity of the morning as you pull the paper, wherein two folded sheets awaits for a peek. You take out the first one, where you find a hand wrote letter made with blue ink. The message contains the following: "Greetings again, friend of mine! It's such a wonderful experience sharing old post mail in the middle of this digital era! Fountain pen writting is a whole art that I enjoy performing when we send letters to each other! Straight to the point: Today, I have good news for you. After showing you three pictures of my developing Conservation Park, It is finally built and ready to start working. Me and my team did a long and tough effort, until we managed to clone and gather 50 extinct species! You sure remember when I told that our facilities were working on a secret spot lost between the Himalayas, but we expect to open wide it for the public very soon. We toke the snowy parade where we had to melt the snow and ice. Because of that fact, we got the perfect name for our Conservation Park. So, let me gladly introduce you to our... Thawed Out Park ... where ENORMOUS astonishments await for you! (Never gotta say it better!) As you are aware of how this project is about and went so jumbled in it, I got a neat gift for you. Accept this kind offer: If you are willing to take a walk alongside the biggest creatures that once put a step on this world, I already bought a plane ticket for you, so you may come to Nepal. Just care about having enough time, because all the costs come on me! Go to the airport on the date and time pointed there. At your arrival in the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, a member from our staff will be waiting for you, ready to take you to a near place. Therein, you might take a rest and a rich meal, so you can recover the journey, because the next day at 07:00 am local time, a chopper will take you to our meeting, where I, the zoo manager myself, will have the pleasure to be your personal tour guide at the Thawed Out Park! I hope you have your passport to date! If you are not interested and want to decline, just put back this socket in your mailbox before tomorrow at 10:00 am local time. Don't worry. I understand. But, as a last resort in order to persuade you, I've also already sent you a copy of the map from the Thawed Out Park. Give it a try and think about it for a while." You read the last lines of the letter without noticing what they actually mean. You hurry to take the second folded sheet. When you unveil the zoo map, a third small piece of paper falls. You guess it is the plane ticket, but you don't matter about it right now. You have the map straight in front of your face and start to uncode what it displays: At this point, you've spent some tens of minutes. That cup is now cold. You are almost in it! You check the plane ticket and you find that the flight is on exactly five days.... But you remember that you just skipped the last lines of the letter, so you go back to read them. Where were we? Oh, right... "You'll notice some familiar names from the park hotspots I've already showed you! By now, this is all from me. I expect to see you here. I'll be waiting for you with my arms open. Brace yourself for a life changing journey! Until our prompt meeting: Signs, Chairman Luca Abbott, the Zoo Tycoon."

Wild Yak

Himalayan Tahr

Markhors

Another I saw in Beijing Zoo;Thorold's Deer

Snow Leopards

Satyr tragopan

Himalayan Monal

Himalayan Snowcock

Blood pheasants

Black necked crane

Giant panda

Update! I'm running out of space for the Thawed Out Park! 🙀🙀 I had to use the Map Editor once again to make the map even bigger, so I can build the park as I want to... I'm building a mean of three exhibits/day... At this point, I think there will be a few species that I should skip in order to include as much as I want without making some areas quite repetitive 😿😿 Anyways, I hope those won't make a meaningful difference on the final product! Thus, the park will be a pinch delayed, as I was expecting to unveil it this weekend.. That's why I got you another Sneak Peek! This time, behold the Old & Then Cats Research Center! Now, a small riddle. Around the Research Center, there are three saber tooth animals and three cat species, but if you add up them, the final result is not six, but four! How can this be? Have a nice saturday! 😽😽

Asian Black Bear

Golden snub nosed monkey

Black snub nosed monkey

Grey snub nosed monkeys; shades of Shangri La

Sichuan takins

Golden Takins. I've only seen these once, at Beijing Zoo

Tufted deer

Elliot's Pheasant

Lady Amherst's Pheasant

Golden pheasant

Chinese Pangolins

New Sneak Peek! The Thawed Out Park is almost done! This time, the new hotspot is the Antlers Hanging Garden! The path merges with the flowers in a mesmerizing way, so you can sit and relax while eating popcorn! Just remember not to feed the animals with it! And, speaking about animals... Who might be dwelling in the exhibits near the Antlers Hanging Garden? The clue is the name itself 😉😉 Expect a third Sneak Peek before the "unveil post". Have a nice middle-of-the-week!