Asian small clawed otter and giant otter (Yes or No)

[IdleFire Guardian]

It's a waste of my time and space if the giant otter doesn't have any animals it can normally be with. My question is can I stick them in the same habitat enclosure without an issue? This does not include BIOME or CONTINENT differences.
Edit: It's pretty funny how those hypothetical paragraphs never answered my yes or no question. If it's a similar situation as timber and arctic wolves you are free to elaborate the fact they can fight. Answer to the wolves; they will fight but not kill each other.
Go spoon your zoopedia elsewhere if you are going to be toxic with no answers.

[grampers62]

Many animals can be placed with other animals despite what is listed in zoopedia. Those that are listed will get a slight boost to various habitat things when paired up. The only thing is carnivores generally do not do well with other animals.

[IdleFire Guardian]

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Many animals can be placed with other animals despite what is listed in zoopedia. Those that are listed will get a slight boost to various habitat things when paired up. The only thing is carnivores generally do not do well with other animals.

Yeah that doesn't tell me anything dude.
Small clawed otters can be kept with binturong which also can be kept with sun bears. Gemsbok and camels can be kept together just fine.

[Jaggid Edje]

The giant otter is compatible with quite a few animals. You are confusing "compatibility" with "enriching".
The zoopedia doesn't list all animals that are compatible, only those which also give enrichment in addition to being compatible.

To list just a few animals that are completely compatible with the Giant Otter, insofar as you can keep them in the same habitat and set it up so that both species are happy as clams: Both tortoises, both tapirs, Probiscus monkeys, common warthogs, capybaras and Binturongs.
That's not a comprehensive list, that's just the ones that I have put with them successfully.

But no, they cannot go with the Asian otters and be quite as happy as with the animals I listed. The Asian otters don't like sand terrain higher than 20% but the Giant otters want a minimum of 30%. Hopefully you can understand why that means one of them will be a little unhappy.

If you are willing to settle for each of them being just a bit unhappy, you could put sand at 25% and combine them. If you fulfill all of their other needs they should at least be content.

[grampers62]

Experiment and see what works. Maybe this helps you, If a species needs a meat tray for food it won't live well with any other species. All the others can mixed with only a few exceptions. It's better to mix animals from the same biome as that makes the habitat requirements, grass,plants soil and such work. Also note that when mixing species the area required is the total of what each species needs added together so sometimes the only gain from mixing would be aesthetic. The exception is those that are listed in zoopedia get a boost in the habitat.

[Jaggid Edje]

@grampers62, there's no such thing as a "meat tray". There's the metal tray, which keepers fill for meat for some animal species, but they also fill it with other things for some other species.

The same tray is used by the Sun Bear and Binturong, for example, but it is filled with Leaves, Nuts, Fruit AND meat for them. Both of those species are just fine with pretty much any other non-carnivore.
The tray is also filled with fish rather than meat for some species, and many of those can also be combined fine with any other non-carnivore species.

Also, you are not accurate with how space is calculated. It is not the "total" of each species requirement. You will always save some space when combining, because the "base space requirement" value of a combined habitat uses only the single largest base value of all the species in the habitat. Only the "per animal" additional space calculation is used for all of them.

[IdleFire Guardian]

I'll just wait for one ya to get on Planet Zoo.
Gotta make the harem for my homie on a different game. See ya.

[Jaggid Edje]

Btw, I answered your question in my last post. Yes, you can combine them, but no they won't be entirely happy because their sand requirements don't align. They will not eat each other or fight though.

[IdleFire Guardian]

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Btw, I answered your question in my last post. Yes, you can combine them, but no they won't be entirely happy because their sand requirements don't align. They will not eat each other or fight though.

Alrighty, thank you. That was all I wanted to know. See, it wasn't so hard to just say that little bit.

[GunRunner89X]

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Btw, I answered your question in my last post. Yes, you can combine them, but no they won't be entirely happy because their sand requirements don't align. They will not eat each other or fight though.

Alrighty, thank you. That was all I wanted to know. See, it wasn't so hard to just say that little bit.

Not too hard not to be rude either, but there you go...