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Thawed Out Park! Summary: Zoo final statistics: - Map workbench: Asian highlands (modified with Map Editor) - In game building conclusion: Jun 21st, Year 34 - IRL time of gameplay: may 26th 22 - jun 11th 22 - Exhibits: 55 - Attractions: 13 - Staff: 63 (13 ZK, 22 Scientists, 1 Marine Specialist, 22 Tour guides, 5 Mantainance workers) - Benefactors: 684 - Guest max changed to 1,500 - Max rating: 96 - Value: $24,751,800 - Zoo of the Year Award & Best Zoo in the World Award obtained! Main view of the park: Zoo areas: Enchanted Forest: - Borsato's Siberian Unicorn - BlueFang's Woolly Rhino - Wolverale's Metridiochoerus - Khaydar's Entelodon Feeding Center: - Borsato's Aurochs - Borsato's Eohippus - Wolverale's Titanotylopus Antlers Hanging Planters: - Khaydar's Bush Antlered Deer - Borsato's Irish Elk - Borsato's Sivatherium - Borsato's Synthetoceras - Hawkkeye's Horned Gopher Lost Ponds: - BlueFang's Giant Tortoise - Khaydar's Purussaurus - Khaydar's Gastornis - Borsato's Kelenken - Borsato's Elephant Bird MegaTusk Plaza: - BlueFang's Woolly Mammoth - Hendrix's American Mastodon - Khaydar's Deinotherium - Khaydar's Moeritherium - Khaydar's Stegodon - Khaydar's Sicilian Dwarf Elephant GATICO: - BlueFang's Saber Tooth Cat - Khaydar's Cave Lion - Borsato's Homotherium - Borsato's Thylacosmilus Aussie Tour: - Borsato's Thylacoleo - Borsato's Diprotodon Relaxing Gardens: - BlueFang's Giant Ground Sloth - Hawkkeye's Jefferson's Ground Sloth - Haykkeye's Scelidotherium - Hawkkeye's Glyptodon - Borsato's Doedicurus Ancient Predators Memorial: - Khaydar's Short Faced Bear - Khaydar's Hyaenodon - Khaydar's Andrewsarchus - Khaydar's Dorudon - Khaydar's Basilosaurus Road of the Giants: - BlueFang's Macrauchenia - Khaydar's Uintatherium - Khaydar's Embolotherium - Khaydar's Paraceratherium - Borsato's Chalicotherium - Borsato's Megacerops AquaTerrariums: - Hawkkeye's Josephoartigasia - Khaydar's Arsinoitherium PrimEats Place: - Borsato's Gigantopithecus - Khaydar's Australopithecus Bug report! - Moeritherium is a pretty neat tankable animal, but if you use water terrain, its animation gets stuck. - Hyaenodon overcrowds its own exhibit and goes unhappy very easy. - Basilosaurus & Dorudon have no pic at animal list menu (I found this was previously reported). - Short Faced Bear cubs have extra pixels floating around their animations. - Wooden bridge has no gate for 12 tiles long bridges. Top User Created Items: - Jane's Wild Life Shelters - Toodlepops' Striped Awnings - Catfish & Genkicoll Stepping Stone Paths - Quebec's Pack Mine Train - Genki's Clay Theme Pack, Terrain Theme Paths & Ice Waterfall Fence - Zootan's Waterfall Fence & Decorative Fences - Jay's Cobblestone Cliff Fence & Decorative Gates - Particle's Concrete Wall Set - Catfish's Snowy Foliage & Small Rocks - ZZ's Bubblers & Natural Shelters I keep: THIS is my biggest park ever and maybe the biggest I'll ever build ❤️❤️ It was a wonderful time and I love to share it with you :3 Hope you like the park and the story I wrote... I'm now ready to retake the Empty Zoos Challenge and my book... I'll just do one more post about the MegaTusk Plaza and then I'll start my new projects! Have a nice day 😸😸

What's going on up there? Luca is having a nice time with a woman who dresses a lab coat right in front of the Tea House! You can't hear what are they talking about, but you notice how nice is their chat because they can't stop laughing! When you're close, Luca comes towards you and then introduces: - Oh! There you are! I'm eager about showing you what's there behind the third bulky gate! You three, standing there, quit talking. Just the Stegodon trumpet breaks the silence. - Sorry! - breaks Luca - Let me introduce you to this gorgeous lady! This is Dr. Parvati Kerr. She will tell you a few things and will join the tour for the next zoo area. - Nice to meet you! - says Parvati - Luca has told me several things about you! Are you enjoying the park? I bet you do! You start walking across the bulky gates. She stops right in front of a building. Parvati explains then: - Sure you've already seen the Thawed Out Park zoo map. Didn't you? - inquires Parvati - If you did, sure you wonder what is that hotspot pointed as "G. A. T. I. C. O.". Let me explain. These are the research team headquarters. All you see and all that became the Thawed Out Park started some time ago with my team of coworkers. The GATICO acronym stands after Guidance for Ambiental Transition for the Introduction of Cats Observatory. Our first objective was the restoration of some lost and endangered cats like barbary lion or sumatran tiger. Nevertheless, call it serendipity or whatever you want, our breakthroughs drove us further, to the restoration of extinct feline species. - GATICO now works as both the main lab for extinct species clonning and as a museum where guests may get information about the conservation of endangered and extinct feline species, and its name is the spanish word for "kitty"! - explains Luca - Dr. Parvati is the leader of the GATICO research team. I'd like to show you our facilities, but the staff is quite jealous about their work. However, you may take the museum tour. The souvenirs include cat themed glasses, so you can then after go to the photo booth and shoot your silliest angles! - During our first prototype tests, we found that our method had a small posibility of restoring even older species - explains Parvati -. So, we developed a pilot test which, after several attempts, successfully brought back the extinct Cave Lion! A feline species that went lost when more efficient predators, like wolves, appeared across Eurasia was now almost walking again at our facilities! We had a short discussion about halting the experiment right there, when we noticed about that chance of demonstrating if Cave Lion was a subspecies of african lions! That study conclusions just came to reinforce the most recent research about Cave Lion being an actual independent species! - With these results, of course we would try a second time! The following GATICO research program restored the ravenous Homotherium, an extinct feline that gave us interesting discoveries! Homotherium has a quite unique feature: Theit teeth were flat and had a serrated edge, being the reason of its common name: scimitar tooth cat. Those lethal teeth, in adition to its body shape is what give us the depiction of a mammoth slayer. When we ran the Homotherium project, Luca and I haven't met yet, so mammoths weren't in our plans. Despite being plausible, we won't make a clash test between my cats and his mammoths. Homotherium voracius nature will remain in mystery... They look suspiciously peaceful, so we don't want to dare them! - With two restored extinct cat species, my team toke part of a more ambitious project. The best known ancient cat species is obviously Smilodon, better known as saber tooth cat. Despite what you may think when you see them, its name is not due their huge canine teeth! Their actual "knife teeth" are their incisors! We expected the Smilodon restoration project to be quite long, but the remains were in an spectacular condition that allowed us to recover this cat faster than we tought on first place! And that's not all. If you paid attention to the GATICO museum tour, the modern clouded leopar has the widest jaw aperture, with around 90 degree. In order to use those huge canine teeth, Smilodon's jaw aperture reached 120 degree! - The last extinct species below the GATICO's surveilance is exceptional, as it is not an actual feline, but its program is aiding in the understanding of modern and ancient cats behavior. Thylacosmilus is not an actual feline. Actually, the puss at your home is closely related to Smilodon or Homotherium unlike this one, because Thylacosmilus is actually a marsupial. Yes! Like kangaroos or possums! Our team chose for a non feline animal for our fourth project so we can uncover several things about their evolution, because most of Thylacosmilus habits aren't preserved in extant species. Also, their teeth are incredible! They grow lifelong and start over their eyes! Thawed Out Park's logo is intended to be the huge teeth of the four projets that started it all before the eventual 45 new projects! - When the news of a non feline extinct animal project by GATICO researchers came to my knowledge - starts Luca -, I made my first trip to Kathmandu where I met Dr. Parvati for the first time. At those days, I was working on the previous park I already showed you. Yes: The Aussie Tour Park. We spoke about bussiness and we got an agreement: I'd found their research if they let me and my team to do research at their facilites. So, I toke their fifth proyect of a cat like extinct species, so I can introduce it at my Australian theme park: the Thylacoleo! My team used GATICO installations and procedures and we achieved our first goal! - After our first research program together, we kept talking. A new project started, followed by so many others and... Now we're here! The second restored australian animal I brought to Aussie Tour Park was Diprotodon. And sure now you wonder "Wait! You told that Thawed Out Park doesn't work on dinosaur research, but at the Aussie Tour Park you have both Muttaburrasaurus and Australovenator... How is it then?" Hahaha! Of course I toke also Meiolania from Thawed Out Park to Aussie Tour Park, but the dinosaur projects are my tiny secret! I'll tell you later! - It was nice to attach your trip on this small piece of a huge road! - says Dr. Parvati. She stands right in front of the Aussie Tour didgeridoo store - From now on, I let you keep your way just you two! GATICO children, and with children I mean the staff themselves, need their babysitter back again, or they start to fool around and quit working! Anything you need, you know where to find me! Until very soon! - We're now at the second corner of the park -begins Luca when Parvati leaves your eyesight meters away, on a path turn -. On this side, you won't deal with bothering noisy food stands or smelly ugly to see trash cans. You may take that bridge and enjoy the Relaxing Gardens! The wind caresses the planters and the slow movements of the animals dwelling there. Let you drown in the peace of the silent spot of the park! The bridge arises above the exhibit of Scelidotherium, the first sloth of the Relaxing Gardens! This sloth differentiate from others by its narrow head. - These sloths have historic meaning! Scelidotherium first remains were depicted by Charles Darwin itself during his journey across South America! Unfortunately, he assigned Scelidotherium remains to another species. On the other hand, the second sloth below the bridge in its small snowy woods was depicted by the former USA president Thomas Jefferson! That's why Megalonyx is aslo known as Jefferson's ground sloth! Its official naming toke place almost 30 years after that and Jefferson named Megalonyx before he reached the presidential chair, but to cultural significance, is an ancient species "with a presidential link". - But close to Megalonyx and Scelidotherium, the largest of these sloths was, indubiously Megatherium, also perhaps the most popular and better studied from giant sloths. This fluffy pal, due to its enormous size, had almost no competitors in the food race. We have almost no interrogants about sloths diet, but there are so many theories about these beasts being scavengers. And that might be possible, but about scavengers we'll talk about later! - At the end of the Relaxing Gardens, we have two more friends. They're not that big, nor that fluffy. They're armored instead! The first one resembles a bit of dinosaurs like Ankylosaurus or Euoplocephalus, but it's actually a mammal related to modern armadillos! The main thing about Doedicurus is its thorny tail. We're on or way about finding if that armoured tail is some sort of defense against predators or if males used them in combats during reproductive season. - The neigbour and the second corner of the zoo is Glyptodon. They also had an armoured tail, but instead of a club mass, theirs is covered by bony spiked plaques! Have a rest at this area until you're restored! I'll be wating for you near the Thylacoleo exhibit! We're finally going across the electric gates! So, mind yourself for the last part of the journey! When Luca leaves, you take your time to go and sit next to the Megatherium exhibit, next to a fountain. The sloth slowly stands and gently extends an arm, reaches a branch of a tree and pulls it towards itself. The tree trembles and finally jumps back to its original position when the claw rips the plant. The slot crushes the leaves within its mouth. The breeze raises a bunch of leaves in the air. The green and brown leaves falls across the path and finally two of them find their last destiny next to you. One of them is flexible and green, meanwhile the other one is fragile and brown. You wait for the wind to take those leaves alongside it, when the sloth does a second blow to the tree, blasting a new generation of leaves into the garden. The fountain is now full of dead nature like fishes and frogs having a nice time on a pond. You stand up and find your shoulders full of dried leaves and blossoms. As you take your way to the bridge, a third bump to the tree takes place, but you only hear it. - That was quite short! - says Luca when you reach the Aussie Tour souvenir store again - Now, we're just standing in front of the electric gate that safeguards us from a containment breach on the other side. Do you wanna know now?

You're on your way across the hanging planters right into the tunnel that goes below the Eohippus corral after washing that sticky cheese from your hands at the restrooms. On the other side, on a leafy bench next to the Globe Bush, Luca drinks from a bottle of fresh water as he waits for you to come back. He swallows two times when he notices your walking, then he closes the bottle and stands up. - How is it going, my friend? - asks he as he approaches - Are you ready to resume the journey? Sure you've been sneaking a bit around. Sure you noticed an arch next to the Synthetoceras & Ceratogaulus exhibit. Do you wanna know what is hiding across those bricks and vines? Luca starts guiding you right back across the tunnel. In the darkness, he starts talking again. - At this point, I've showed you a few mammals that lived during the last eras, just after the biggest dinosaurs. Don't you wonder what happent to those titanic lizards? Or should I say "titanic birds"? Yes! We know now that birds living nowadays are actual and modern dinosaurs! In fact, the feathers came earlier as we tought, appearing in the dinosaur evolution in the ancestor shared between dinosaurs and other reptiles like those who flew! Unfortunately, dinosaur restoration is not that easy as for mammals, nor is something that the Thawed Out Park researches are interested about. However, we of course restorted few extinct dinosaur relatives from ice age! Welcome to the Lost Ponds! When he says this last words, you are now walking below the arch. This area looks completely different to the rest of the zoo. It's like a small rainfortest where the guests are caged and not the animals. Your boots feel soaky at every step you give through the path way. - As I told you, birds are ACTUAL dinosaurs, not their modern relatives. The modern dinosaur relatives are actually crocodiles! It is also known that crocodile cells contain feather genes, but they do NOT have the genes for feather making. Although, Purussaurus is not a croc, but a caiman, it might be the bigges crocodilian ever! Other great rivals who can hand this title are Deinosuchus or Mourasuchus, both of them reaching easily 10 meters long! For a comparison, modern salt water croc, the largest modern reptile, gets only 6.5 meters long! - Another great reptile group, not that close relative of dinosaurs, are turtles. Among all of them through history, the biggest land turtle was Meiolania, which keeps several misteries that we want to thaw out with their research program! Many people doubt about Meiolania's aquatic nature. Their actual classification is also quite problematic! As problematic as those spikes they have around their neck! While predators could not bite them, Meiolania is not able to fold their own necks either! - On the other side, we have what you want to be here! Actual dinosaurs! But you won't see a huge Carcharodontosaurus nor a long Sauroposeidon. I sure turned you jaded about birds being dinos. So, we have, on the first corner of the zoo, the hideous Gastornis! Some people have a hilarious depiction of fluffy feathered dinosaurs! But take a look at these and tell me they're adorable. Did you ever, as a child, tried to steal a hen's chick? They get frightfuly mad! Now imagine about these! - Gastornis' neighbours are in fact called "terror birds" by so many people! Most terror birds, whose scientific name is "phorusrhacids" lived mostly on ancient South America. That's why there's an inca statue standing next to their exhibit. Also, the tallest of them were Kelenken and their name is the one of an ancient deity! Pretty well deserved name for an actual monster! We're almost sure at this point that they were actual predators and not scavengers! This zoo area is pretty reinforced because of this! - But, after what we saw here, the greatest bird of all time was not Gastornis nor Kelenken. Not even the ostriches! On the far island of Madagascar, the greatest bird ever broke what we thought about insular dwarfism! Also, like dinosaurs, it was not a predator, but a frugivore. It was the Aepyornis also known as "elephant bird" because of its dimensions. I'll tell you a secret! When we restored these birds, I got several ideas! I know I said that my team has no interest about clonning dinosaurs, but I do for sure! Maybe, if I have enough time, I'll do it on my own later! Of course, you're gonna be there just like now! - But, of course, I always state that my favorite dinosaur ever is a well deep fried chicken! So, we got a stand of fried chicken if you want to take a look at dinosaurs that may eat you as you eat one of them! Hahaha sorry! That joke sounds better in my head! Do you wanna give it a try? As you two take your meal, standing below the observation areas, a Kelenken stands on the other side of the pond. Its points at you with its beak, standing there quietly. Their eyes make contact with you as the chicken meat is chewed in your mouth. Luca also notices it but says nothing. A sutile grin gets drawn in their face. He forces a short laugh before finishing his meal. - Pretty nice. Isn't it? I'll see you back on the Globe Bush again when you're ready! He leaves. You turn your head again straight to the Kelenken. It shakes briefly before turning around and going to take a rest at the egg shaped shelter. Its feathers spread into the air and float around. One of them lands on your empty cardboar disposable dish. - Are you done yet? 'Cause I'll show you something HUGE! I told you earlier about the roads breaking away from the Feeding Center. Do you wanna know what lies at that side of the zoo? There are two eating places for the munchies that can be bought around the Feeding Center. The Globe Bush at the Eohippus corral is the first one, but the true rest place is at the other way! This is the MegaTusk Plaza! Have a seat and enjoy as you recharge energies! Then, walk across those bulky gates! - As the name and the statues suggest, behind those gates, they who awat for you beyond this ponit are the ancestors of the dog... Nah obviously elephants! Hahaha The first one on this side is not an actual elephant ancestor. Moeritherium belongs to an ancient branch of proboscideans that went lost and extinct so much before the modern elephants apeared. It doesn't even look like them! Their tusks and trunk are pretty short, just like its whole body, resembling a tapir more than an elephant! - Just in front of them, we got something quite interesting! During our search after the biggest terrestrial mammal ever, we found this little friend! It's a close relative of it, but its one of the tiniest proboscideans ever! The genus Palaeoloxodon is quite controversial nowadays. Its validity is dubbed by some as there were findings about it being closely related to asian elephants. Sicilian dwarf elephant research program will disclose several questions about this and one of the biggest land mammals ever. - Follow this way! Take a look at this frosty forest! Here, we have a family having a nice time! But first, tell me... Do you know the difference between a Mastodon and a Mammoth? The word "mastodon" means exactly "nipple tooth" because of the conical crown of these animals. I don't know what was thinking whoever thought that name! To me, they look like ice cream cones! Anyways. These teeths were specialized for eating plants like bush or tree leaves, meanwhile mammoths fed on grass! Mastodons belong to the genus Mammut, resulting in some confusion about their names! I'll point some differences later. - Aren't you amazed enough yet? I'll show you one of the biggest members of the Thawed Out Park! We may count with one hand the land mammal species that are confirmed bigger than Deinotherium! The first thing you'll notice from this ancient elephant is quite weird. Its tusk come out from their jaw! Exactly! Other proboscideans got their tusks from their upper teeth! Most elephants have a use for their tusks as some tool when looking for food. We're still wondering and working on how did these strange tusks work. - You may take the bridge to come across the Deinotherium pyramid savannah. We'll get a second savannah praire, but a iced one this time! Again, our team managed to restore an old extinct large mammal that so many people tried to retrieve several times during last decades! We'll resume the differences between mastodons and mammoths! As you've already seen, mastodons were hairy, but mammoths weren't that way! Just the Woolly Mammoth was hairy. You sure noticed that hump! Mastodons lack it! - This is the last member of the MegaTusk Plaza neighbourhood: If Mastodon means "nipple tooth" due to its teeth crowns, Stegodon owes its name to the ridges of its teeth crowns giving a shape like the roof of a house. Several Stegodon species were among the biggest proboscideans. In some of them, the tusks were so close that the trunk grew on and not between them! These six ancient elephant species gathered here establish our Proboscidean Research Program! Our results will help on the conservation of modern african and asian elephants! - We're back at the bulky gates, at the other side the MegaTusk Plaza awaits for us again. Before proceeding to the next area, you should take a look at the Dig Setup! Sure you'll find something intriguing! If you wanna keep something that you find buried there, just don't take a big item or other guest will get jealous! I'll be waiting at the Tea House. Have a nice dig! When you go into the Dig Setup, there are several shovels laying on the ground. Piles of mud and snow were thrown near them, next to some wet rocks nobody cares about. A sutile spark steals your attention, inviting you to crouch close. You grab a small Ammonite that might become confused with a plain pebble. As it is not that heavy, you can handle it and put it in your pocket. When you stand and start walking out the setup, at the first steps, you feel the stone pounding against your thigh. When you are back at the Tea House, you don't even mind about it anymore.

That chuck-chuck-chuck noise from the chopper drills your forehead. Those dumplings and chicken from last night were wonderful, but this flight is nothing like the plane! Your body is just recovering its natural shape after several hours sitting in the plane, but the noise and the movement from the chopper is trying to make you fizz out that dinner like a shaken soda. "I hope, that park worths this" goes through your thoughts you can barely listen inside your head, when the fog and clouds dispell. The Thawed Out Park stands right in front of you! It's just like the map you recieved at your post days ago and that now you keep at your pocket buried below that thick jacket. Too late you noticed that it might be just useless as you are getting a guided tour from the zoo manager itself. After a few minutes, the loud torture device finally lands and releases you from its paws. The first thing you listen when your ears quit buzzing is a sutile "Nice to lead you here. Now, I must leave!" from that person who met you at the airport. Is the only thing you remember hearing from that mouth since the "Greetings. Mr. Abbott sent me after you today" at the arrivals hall. Meters away, you notice a camping and a lady with a speaker, pointing that "All the park customers must gather around the zoo entrance within ten minutes before the inauguration speech". "What? Is this the park opening? I didn't know!" You bury your feet in the snow as you approach to the staff member, but she comes right towards your way as soon as she notices your presence. - Oh, right! - says she - You must be Mr. Abbott's special guest! Come with me, please. Make yourself confortable with us! She puts a hanging card around your neck. It displays the park's logo and your name next to "staff member". - With this, you'll have full access to our facilities. Feel free to walk across the zoo entrance. Just wait next to the information booths. You'll meet Mr. Abbott right there after the speech. You'll enjoy the trip. I bet! Have a nice day! As you walk the path right to the zoo entrance, you notice that you were te only one who arrived on the chopper. The customers from the camping aren't that jazzy, like the people who you tought had to pay for the zoo entrance. The park lends its welcome to you with lots of flowers and an arch series, one of them is like a giant ice cube. You notice why this first park section is called Enchanted Forest: It looks like some garden from a pricess castle! There are also unicorn statues, which gives the aura of a fairy tale! A voice comes upstairs the ice bridge. A man with another speaker calls the customers to come inside the zoo. Meanwhile they reach your place, from the other side of the road, a second group comes the same way. You catch in sight a group of about two tens of people wearing lab coats, who are in their way next to a second group of at least half that big. This second team wears wide hats and yellow jackets. When they're close enough, you spot the Thawed Out Park's logo garnishing their chests at the left, right above their hearts. They quit advancing when they reach both sides of the bridge. Among the team, you find the staff member from the chopper who met you at Tribhuvan Airport. Only then, you notice you're surrounded by the other guests and a third team of staff. You notice they're the tour guide team because the speaker girl wears the same cap as the others. Few eternal silent seconds pass before the guy with the speaker up there says "Now, please welcome Mr. Abbott. The zoo manager!". A sea of claps floods the quiet air of the Himalaya. It reminds you a bit the chopper sound. The guy says something that goes unheard beneath the applause. Then, he lends the speaker to Luca. You imagined him standing there with a tuxedo, some plain coloured tie and well polished shoes. His outfit is besides fully casual. The only garment he's wearing and you tought he would is, of course, a face mask. He holds the speaker with his left hand as he uses the right one making a sign in order to silent the audience. Then, he starts the speech: - Hi, everyone! Nice to see you in the right time and place on this cold morning! Today, you'll meet a Conservation Area that will change the world's vision about preservation of species. Welcome and behold the Thawed Out Park, where enormous astonishments await for you all! - a second applause borns from the customers hands. This time, you take part of it. - And now, before starting the tour, where my staff will make you feel like at your own homes, a small announcement. You'll find this park has no massive atracttions like other zoos. This is because this park focuses on the reintroduction of species and their welfare, not in people amusement. Our resources resulted in the best built enviroment at our 50 exhibits, making them the closest for the ancient biomes as far we actually know. I appreciate your understanding. But hey! That's not a weak point against the park! You'll enjoy every park hotspot! I bet! - a last applause takes place before the last Abbott's indication. He speaks in the middle of the flatter, merging his words with the cheering - Go and start your trip! Staff will serve all of your requirements! Have a nice day! Luca arises between the everywhere walking people as they disband. He's running like a little child having his best playtime ever! - Did you think I may forget my special guest today? - jokes he as comes closer - I told my staff to not interfere with us. Indeed, my words were "don't bother me unless the park catches fire!" Hahaha! How was the trip? Did you like Kathmandu and nepalese food? - you agree with your head - Great! I hope you fully restored your energies! Are you ready for the biggest park you'll ever visit? For sure, you've already noticed why this is the Enchanted Forest section. And what kind of mythical species dwell at these kind of places? Unicorns, of course! Naturally, real unicorns never existed, or not as art depicts them. So, how are the Thawed Our Park's unicorns? These are ancient rhinos. At this side of the Enchanted Forest, we have the Elasmotherium, also known as "the siberian unicorn". Some researchers stated that real Elasmotherium didn't have those massive horns. The ones we restored had them! Speculations made about Elasmotherium horns depend on the studied species. This one might be a different one! - The second one is not an actual unicorn, as it has TWO horns! It's the Coelodonta, also known as wolly rhino. You'll notice something weird about these pals! Their horns aren't round like those from Elasmotherium nor the actual rhinos'. Their front horn is flattened like a knife! This seems to be useful as some kind of tool in order to dig and search for grass below the snow! What a curious way to search for their food! Those unicorn statues stands to remind us that mythical beasts perhaps existed, but sure not as we tought! - Come across the bridge, just behind the Yeti statue! We have freeze themed souveinrs you may carry back home, so you can show off about how you were at the Thawed Out Park first day! The Enchanted Forest is not over yet! - Here, we have some other magical creatures, but not the way you think! Our third and fourth exhibits are for pig-like ancient animals! You may think "Of course! Some people think that unicorns were hogs like those with their teeth protruding throughout their snouts!". Weeeeell, yes and no. One of the best known magical castles, and the one I like the most, is that from Harry Potter's books. You may not know, but it has pigs in its name! Do you remember? Hog-Warts? Wart-hogs? Do you notice? Hahaha! At the left from the souvenir store, a family of Metridiochoerus is having a rest. Maybe, the modern warthogs won the evolution race against Metridiochoerus because warthogs had less nutritional requirements. That's the actual theory. With their research program, we are going to confirm or refuse that statement! - The one on the right side is Entelodon. Yes! I know! Entelodon is not an actual ancestor of modern pigs nor hogs! Their true relationship is quite controversial. Brought back to life, Entelodon looks pretty weird! Don't you think? Those thin straw like legs don't seem able to bear that bulky body! Although, you'll find them pretty agile! Also, Entelodon have the four types of teeth, just like actual pigs and humans! That's what toke us to feed them in an omnivorous way! However, they seem to like the meat chow the most! - From this point, the Thawed Out Park has several paths! We are now at the Feeding Center hotspot! You'll see... As the development was going on and the park got bigger every day, we noticed that the food costs grew tremendously! Mostly due the transport. So, we built a factory! Here, our guests may learn how the food is made. Also, we have some options of fast food for our guests! - At the Feeding Center, there are three species. These are ancient relatives of some species that went domesticated and nowadays their descendants inhabits in our barns. The first one is some that several teams tried to restore for decades. The cattle precursor, who went extinct as soon as 400 years ago: the Aurochs itself! Aurochs is one of the most often depicted animals on cave paintings. Ancient humans domesticated Aurochs at Eurasia at least two times in history! - Follow this way! Just don't take the bridge! Not yet! At the other side, you'll find one of the three electric gates! What does inhabit on the other side of them? You'll figure it out later! Below the bridge, we have the Titanotylopus who is the heaviest of all the camelids ever known! The name holds it: Their feet had pads, just like modern camels. But every modern camel species are fully domesticated. None of them is actually wild! And, unlike cattle and Aurochs, the wild species from which camels got domesticated is not known to date! This species management may enlighten us about the past of the camels! - This is the Globe Bush Yard! Here, the customers may take a sit at our benches and take their meal surrounded by one of the smallest species we got! The Eohippus is, as the name suggests, an ancestor of modern horses. But not as recent as Aurochs or Titanotylopus! Eohippus is maybe the earliest from all the evolution tree of equids! As you should know, wild horses like tarpan are also extinct. Mustangs horses are feral. You know, domestic animals who broke free and now they roam the wild. It may sound pretty romantic, but it is not that neat! We also thought that Przewalski horses were feral, but recent studies suggest that they are wild species. We'll also clarify several things about the horses evolution with this species program! - As I already told, we may go different ways from the Feeding Center. Let's take the one at the right first! These are the Antlers Hanging Planters. The name is a sort of tongue twister, just like the path is kinda tricked! We have five species around the planters. All of them have different kind of horns! You're gonna meet them! Just do'nt get hypnotized by the swirling path! - The first of these neighbours are some of the most magnificent antlers the world has ever seen! On the left, we got a family of Eucladoceros . These cervids had several branches at their huge horns! That gave them the name of "Bush antlered deer". Each horn had at leas a dozen of tips! That sounds pretty amazing! Doesn't it? On the counter side, their skulls weren't that evolved. Several people think about those antlers that big were pointlessly massive and their went extinct due to them being an impediment when feeding or hiding from predators. Modern deers moult their antlers every year, so the deer program will unveil if that theory might be the actual cause of their extinction! - On the right side, the other and the biggest antler ever belongs to the Megaloceros, better known as irish elk! Megaloceros' antlers weren't that branchy like Eucladoceros', but they were way heavier and massive! From branch tip to branch tip, the Megaloceros' antlers measure more than 3 meters long! I mentioned earlier that deers lose and develope new antlers every year for the breeding season. That makes us question what for nutritional need had these deers in order to grow such big antlers! If the uptake came from their body reservoir instead diet, that may result in a weak body, not strong enough to flee from predators or fight against other males if they did! - Remember not to take that bridge yet! The horns you're gonna watch next are quite different to those from Eucladoceros and Megaloceros. One of my favorite moments in the palaeontology is when this animal was finally reclasified as an ancient giraffe after being jumping between taxa! I'm talking about the Sivatherium whose name comes from the hindi destruction deity Shiva. Their horns were bony and had skin covering, just like those from modern giraffes and okapies! These are named ossicones. And, like those animals, we found that Sivaterium fed using a strong tongue! - Here, on the last corner of the Antlers Hanging Planters, you'll notice something quite new. We dare to merge two species on the same exhibit just to know if they coexist without troubles. We got pretty nice results! The first one is Synthetoceras which is not an actual deer like Megaloceros or Eucladoceros. Male Synthetoceras also had a bony "v" shaped horn on their snout. These resulted to live together well with Ceratogaulus which is also a horned animal. But it's a rodent! Ceratogaulus horns seems to work as a defense against predators, acting like some kind of lid for their burrows, turning difficult the chasing of these rodents. - Are you enjoying the Thawed Out Park? I bet you do! Are you feeling tired yet? Wanna take a break? You walk below the shadow of the observation areas as you look at the gardens. The antlers from the animals that are close or far seems to merge with the plants branches, giving the gardens a living aura. THIS look like actual enchanted woods! Luca's voice is like some musical echo playing in the background, breaking the ice from the Himalaya. - Take a break if you like! Go to restroom if you need it. Get some nachos from the stand and take a look at the autumn garden. They usually do not allow you enter with food, but with that card on your neck, you can easily do it! Just be careful and do not drop cheese on the plants! Meet me at the Globe Bush when you are ready, because this is just the begining of the tour!

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."

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!

It's me again! Last week I got the surgery for the removal of my wisdom teeth, so I took a rest away from work during 4 days... I was like "Yasssss a nice time where I'll working with my new empty (and delayed) zoos!"... Welp, spoiler: I got stuck with this one... I restarted it like 5 times until I achieved all the goals. After several attempts, I got it, so here it is: Empty Free Admission Zoo from the Free Admission campaign: User-made only restricted: Animals, paths, decorative fences & scenery. In-game stuff allowed: Exhibit fences, buildings, rocks, foliage & staff. Objectives: 1. Income: $50,000 2. Diversity: 7 species, 3 zoo animals and 4 aquatic animals. 3. Suitability: 85 for 7 exhibits. Default buildings: Compost Building (1). In-game animals required: None. Main view of the map! This is such a big map for the requirments of the scenario 🙀🙀 Come to the Support Plaza! Wanna a pizza slice from Jane's Wild Life Pizza? 🍕🍕 Otherwise, If you wanna have fun at the Devona's Ball Pit I just hope you aren't allergic to pollen, cause it's all surrounden with Brandi's Summer Sunflower Planters! 🌻🌻 Across the Land side of the zoo, you'll find Borsato's African Spurred Tortoise and Hawkkeye's Striped Skunk & NEW Gaboon Viper!! 🐢🐢🦨🦨🐍🐍 Now come and take a peek at our sea side! All our tanks were built using Casey's Glass Walls & Jeff's Camouflaged Filters! First tank belongs to Borsato's Wobbegong! On the second and third ones you may see a family of Khaydar's Rosette River Ray & Indo Pacific Sailfish respectively... For the last one, a community of Hawkkeye's Angelshark, Guitarfish, Nursehound & Spiny Butterfly Ray swim together! This is what I made during my "swollen days" 🦷🦷 Hope you like it! Until next empty zoo!!

Hi again! I found an issue with the hacks and the work of the campaigns once again... For this campaign, an in-game animal required is the porpoise, but it's lend to the zoo as a donation and the adoption menu is not available... I have the ZT vs Nature hack, where the porp is replaced with a new file made by Taz, therefore modifying the in-game porp as the Dall's porp... So, when the last animal package is loaded, the porp wasn't there! I had to restart the game a few times, before I noticed that I was missing an animal, so I went to the ZT guide where I found the porp was that lost animal, so I had to restart again without the porp UCA and DLL... And this is the result! Empty Rehabilitation Zoo from the Save the Marine Animals campaign: User-made only restricted: Animals, paths, decorative fences & scenery. In-game stuff allowed: Exhibit fences, buildings, rocks, foliage & staff. Objectives: 1. Research: For the Manatee, Beluga, Ray & Humpback programs. 2. Suitability: 75 for manatee, 80 for beluga, 85 for manta ray, 90 for humpback calf & 80 for six exhibits left. Default buildings: Aquatic restroom (1). In-game animals required: Polar bear, grizzly bear, red kangaroo, narwhal, hammerhead shark & harbour porpoise. First aided pal! The manatee uses the rehab tank for the first time! (You may take a look as how I develop that benches place along all the gameplay!) After the manatee got recovered, we recieved an hurt beluga... It needs a bit more foliage in order to achieve its suitability Done! Next one is the big manta ray! Now, the rehab tank got rocks so Mantie likes it! Last one is the humpback calf! This time, the rehab tank just needed to get high... The tank is now done! Now that all research is done, we'll get the new animal pack! The rehab tank resulted to be the dwellings for the narwhal The neighborhood got built! Meet Thor, the hammerhead shark! I gotta admit that I don't know why all of this campaign was pretty money-short, so I had to built exhibits with the minimum suitability in order to achieve the whole scenario D: We also got land-n-sea exhibits! Come and see the polar bear snowy beach! And talking about bears, we also got a small forest por the grizzly pal! We also built a little plain for a red kang! Finally, the porp tank... Look at it greeting at that old hag! Last view of the map and to the picnic area (Note that the souvenirs sold at the Devona's Fish Gift Stand include stuffed manatee & beluga plushies, as an acknowledgement for the rehab work!) The lore of this campaign almost makes me cry everytime I read what those animals went through :c Little reminder: April 22nd (Like friday two weeks ago) is Earth's Day (I pretended to post this that day, but I had to deal with the porp issue)... This year it was quite different as more than ever topics like water, chlimate change and war were most remarkable as ever! Until next empty zoo :3 Have a nice week