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[(Admin)Cricket]

Too funny!! 

 

My oldest daughter shares your disdain for those "cobra chickens".  She had to fight them off at one of her jobs.  She's not a fan.  She's gonna love that name tho'. 

 

My youngest daughter loves them and calls them "fluff butts". 

 

Years ago, we used to walk the canal here in Indy and feed those "cobra chickens".  If you have food to offer, they tend to be a little nicer ... if you're lucky. 

[HeatherL]

The cobra chickens at the park were a good 100 feet away when they came after us en mass. And there were more than a hundred of them. I don't think food would have been enough to distract them at that point. The locals told me no one goes to the park during the goose migrations. If the dogs hadn't been leashed, I'm pretty sure they would have tripped me as a sacrifice to the cobra chicken gods.

[Hawkkeye666]

On 8/21/2023 at 4:23 AM, YoungerPrinceLothric said:

I was just about to report that several of your birds do not swim in tanks but then I realized you'd made this post ages ago and I should have just read that first lol 😅

(opened up in one of my mostly empty 'test' zoos. I'd imagine it would take a very long time to make all of your birds tankable and I understand why they wouldn't be 'compatible' for lack of a better word)

 

I would be able to make tankable waterfowl now, but I don´t want to remake all the ones I´ve made. That would be too much work. And only waterfowl would look good tankable, wading birds would look weird.

On 8/25/2023 at 5:18 AM, YoungerPrinceLothric said:

Small report on the Phoenix Chicken: they breed and poop a lot lol. It's kind of my fault in the first place for making such a tiny aviary, but I wanted to mention it regardless. I sell off their babies frequently to keep up with them.

They´re meant to be good breeders, they´re domestic after all. I think I changed cobra breeding rate once, but I´ll check it again.

 

I don´t have much time now for ZT, but here is reworked reticulated giraffe, one of upcoming ungulates:

I am also thinking about the compatibility of west African giraffe. For now, it´s compatible with Borsato´s Defassa waterbuck, my giant eland, Bohor reedbuck, black crowned crane and Pousargues´s mongoose - savannah, with a lot of sand and water (west African giraffes migrate from Niger River valley to dry areas and back). But, maybe, compatibility with Taz´s Addax (with giraffe liking more savannah trees than desert trees) would be more appropriate? Here are pictures of both giraffe paddocks, one with Defassa waterbuck compatibility, the second one with addax compatibility: 

 

You may write which one you prefer.

 

[(Designer)Z.Z.]

I like the one with the Umbrella Thorn and the Palm Trees.

In the exhibit in the upper left there is meat chow, wouldnt a carnivore kill the birds?

[Hawkkeye666]

23 minutes ago, Z.Z. said:

I like the one with the Umbrella Thorn and the Palm Trees.

In the exhibit in the upper left there is meat chow, wouldnt a carnivore kill the birds?

That´s the food for ground hornbills.

[(Designer)Z.Z.]

Oh wow, I didnt know they were omnivores!

Very cool :)

[Hawkkeye666]

31 minutes ago, Z.Z. said:

Oh wow, I didnt know they were omnivores!

Very cool :)

They´re carnivores, only rarely eating something else than meat or insect. They can be quite vicious, especially when human-raised. I read story from zookeeper about hand-raised female that killed her mate, and bit off an eye of a marabou stork in exhibit next to hers.

[fountain]

Yes, Goosifer!  My mother raised African? Geese in our backyard.  Great alarms if someone walked into the backyard.   Most would be sent to a butcher then a grocer for Thanksgiving.  I've been attacked, bit, and thumped by their wings leaving bruises.  I was just herding to fresh grass, not trying to catch them.

 

You forgot the loud  hissing during the wing-spread.  Usually head down they, especially the ganders, as come at you.  You're lucky they didn't plant a flag and stay.

Glad you had peace, I hope, after feathered threat left.

 

[YoungerPrinceLothric]

17 hours ago, Hawkkeye666 said:

one with Defassa waterbuck compatibility

I really like this one!

[fountain]

I like the  Defassa waterbuck compatible because of the opportunity to exhibit less familiar animals together. It looks more natural.