Help please! animal stress

[Thiago]

I have two animals in the habitat, lemur and red variant, both allow visitors to enter the habitat, but all animals are stressed, I don't know what to do anymore, the social group is ok and all the attributes are ok, only the stress is showing . Does anyone know how to help me?

[Carbine M1A1]

try selecting the animals sepretaley it will show you information about it my flamingoes were doing the same thing when i selected one it told me it was trying to hide becaus of the visitors

[missoverdressed]

try putting down a few 'do not disturb' signs, that usually helps a lot

[Jigglepin]

you can find the do not disturb signs under 'facilities' tab, then theres a little tab on the left with like a camera icon, which is security etc.

I also find, having a separate area away from guests, for the lemurs or any animal for that matter helps. somewhere the guests cant see, this is a good place to have their bed and a food item ( something that helps drawn them to it ), as sometimes theyll hang around too much in the stress zone. you can use either habitat barriers or the walls used for building.

theres also abit in the zoopedia, to give you a heads up. its 'relation' with humans. 'species data' which is the third tab from the left when you open the zoopedia.

[badbunny]

Adding a wall or vegetation to screen them from the paths works really well, as do the do not disturb signs as suggested above. Another thing you can do is add ambient sounds speakers. They are located where the education boards are located. I place them around their sleeping platforms and where guests congregate in large numbers to help with the stress level. You have to remember to pick a sound you want these speakers to play too. I had the same type of walk-through habitat that you have, and even after placing down some wall pieces, adding a LOT of plants and those speakers, I still had a lot of issues with their stress levels. Another really important thing to keep on top of is the number of animals in the habitat. Even if they are not fighting, if there are too many males to the number of females I found that the stress levels went up and when I got rid of the extra animals they quit complaining as much until the babies grew up. I hope you can get them happy and keep them that way. LOL I ended up making it a regular habitat and not letting peeps walk through it because the constant complaining drove me nuts. :)

[iloveyourzoos]

Any tips on which ambient sounds work best with each animal? I can't tell if the ones I am using are actually helping -- or just stressing them out more! LOL!

[badbunny]

Originally posted by iloveyourzoos:

Any tips on which ambient sounds work best with each animal? I can't tell if the ones I am using are actually helping -- or just stressing them out more! LOL!

I usually pick the one that matches the biome they are in. LOL For the lemurs I think I used the tropical rainforest night sounds one, I think it is called. Crickets seemed to work on some of the animals I've used them with too. I'm not sure it really matters which one you pick, though. LOL I hung vines from the sides of the hard shelter I put in their enclosures and added those speakers to the inside of them too. I just think lemurs hate having people going through their enclosure, to be honest. So far llamas are the only ones i've had success with walk-throughs with. All of the tortoise ones and even the koalas all complain all the time.

[Mithrandir]

If you are doing walk-ins, I usually have success creating a seprate area with hard shelter + a few enrichments that is out of the guests' sight. You should also check the "relationship with guest" in the zoopedia, because even if it is ok for guests to walk through, the animal may not like it.

[badbunny]

Yeah, I checked to make sure that they allowed people to walk through the exhibit. I also make sure that the path doesn't go everywhere in the exhibit and that I put up some kind of barrier for the animals to hide behind and their food/water and some enrichment items are where the guests can't see them. I think that certain animals just are really sensitive to visitors in their exhibits. So far, for me, Llamas are the only animals I've been successful without having to constantly deal with stress issues. I've started doing a lot more of the walk over paths for exhibits. With all the other issues going on right now in the game, it is just easier. LOL