Anyone noticed an Alpha primate glitch?

[Lil Lilith Pie]

I had a troop of chimps (4m, 4f) sharing the space with my gorilla's (1m, 4f) and some red river hogs (1m 2f) it was a massive enclosure but the chimps wouldn't breed as all the males were beta animals according to the game. So I split up the enclosure and divided the animals. It's been several years game time and the chimps still say they are beta's and won't breed. Worse still my alpha gorilla died and his new replacement is now having the same issue... To the females he is a troop member, to him he was integrating, then integrated, then the gender ratio couldn't integrate (he's the only adult male) then integrated and a beta!

Anyone got any ideas?

[Cretak]

I have a big Primate Enclosure too, but i dont have Problems with Breeding.
In the Enclosure are Chimps, Gorilla, Orang-Uthans, Gibbons and Siamang

[swskydancer]

I am having this problem with Prairie Dogs and have a workaround for it. If you send the male to Quarantine, before you bring him out, save and quit the game. Return the male to the habitat when you next start the game and that beta animal notice will be gone. Saving and quitting is a key step. Before the last small update, I could just send them to Quarantine and when returned that notice would be gone. That's no longer the case.

Do be sure your total group in the habitat is within the number listed in the Zoopedia.

[TheIncredibleHibby]

As swskydancer said, sending the male to quarantine will do the fix. I don't believe you have to save and quit though, at least I've never had to. I just wait for the notification saying that the animal has passed quarantine and then send the animal back to be reintegrated!

[grampers62]

Still wrapping my head around the new socialization routines but there do seem to be some things that might not be working quite as advertised.

[Lil Lilith Pie]

Thanks swskydancer, that did solve the problem!

with the gorilla (so single male) it was an instant fix. with the chimps first try i just sent my wanted alpha to quarantine and back and this did not work. second time i sent all the male chimps to quarantine and this time it worked!

[swskydancer]

I'm glad it helped you, Maria! I will remember if I hit a Chimp issue to send all males. :)

[Just Kevin]

I am surprised you mixed chimps with gorillas. I am sure the Zoopedia says there's nothing they can share with. Unless it says an animal will benefit from sharing a habitat, then I don't do it. Often some animals will just fight.

[Lil Lilith Pie]

Origineel geplaatst door Just Kevin:

I am surprised you mixed chimps with gorillas. I am sure the Zoopedia says there's nothing they can share with. Unless it says an animal will benefit from sharing a habitat, then I don't do it. Often some animals will just fight.

Sorry didn't see this sooner. I have many mixed species habitats, just because an animal doesn't benefit from sharing doesn't mean they can't. The only fighting I've ever had was putting rhino's in with my extremely large savanha habitat, everyone else was fine except the hippos. That's got hippos, elephants, giraffes, zebras, oryx, gazelle, warthog and ostrich in it, all breeding hareems and all otherwise totally fine. I also have a large mixed south American habitat and a tropical Asian primate mixed habitat. The rest are the usual sort. As long as you never mix prey and predator and they come from the same geographic range they seem fine for me always. I also make sure my animals have a habitat size a minimum of 25% larger than they require because I like them to have plenty of space maybe this also helps?