Can dolphins be added to this game please.

[Surviva 777]

It's the missing thing in Planet Zoo, for me.

[Pezza83]

Oh not another one, these posts are tiresome now, Dolphins do not belong in zoo's

[Surviva 777]

Originally posted by Pezza83:

Oh not another one, these posts are tiresome now, Dolphins do not belong in zoo's

There are other water dwelling animals in Planet Zoo, so it would be nice if dolphins could be included.

[maxcry]

Real zoos with dolphins do exist.
Not judging if that's good or not.
At the end we talk about a game.

Frontier has an animal wishlist thread here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/forums/planet-zoo-wishlists/

[The Classy Alien]

pretty sure we'll get aquariums in planet zoo 2, if you cant wait that long, there are plenty of mods for aquatic animals. start here for that. https://www.nexusmods.com/planetzoo/mods/1121

[Perry007]

hi uys how are you all,i need help with my zoo,all my anials are 100 in sand ox ut i cant get different colours on those that do have what am i doin wrong and also my pc dont want to accept fish mods please help me and advise please

[maxcry]

@Perry007: Best open your own thread for this. This thread is about something else.

[Frogboyaidan2]

There are much better animals (Aquatic and Terrestrial) that would be better for them to add to this game then dolphins. While If we ever do get a proper aquarium system in a sequel I would love for them to add dolphins but frontier before has said they would not add dolphins but they also said they would not add exhibit mammals and we got those.

(yes I know cetaceans in captivity is questionable but so are great apes and elephants and the game has both) Also it is a video game not the real world I think digital dolphins in a fictional zoo game is fine.

[Tonks]

Originally posted by Frogboyaidan2:

There are much better animals (Aquatic and Terrestrial) that would be better for them to add to this game then dolphins. While If we ever do get a proper aquarium system in a sequel I would love for them to add dolphins but frontier before has said they would not add dolphins but they also said they would not add exhibit mammals and we got those.

(yes I know cetaceans in captivity is questionable but so are great apes and elephants and the game has both) Also it is a video game not the real world I think digital dolphins in a fictional zoo game is fine.

I wish more people appreciated this nuance - a lot of the arguments against captivity of cetaceans in real life (of which I am a card-carrying supporter), also apply to sentient land mammals we are still seeing in zoos, so to say no to orca on the grounds of contentious arguments of sentience is a bit of a spit in the eye to orangutans and chimps when unfortunately it is still legal to capture all three from the wild somewhere in the world.

For the purposes of the game, if the same creators who made Jurassic Park games where you recreate extinct species and maket hem fight to assess their military potential, the idea of a conservation game featuring a bottlenose dolphin doesn't seem wild fiction.

So many people contest this point with ad-hominem attacks, or strawman arguments as if people are proposing real zoos and forgetting it is just fiction and possibly the only chance some may have to interact with these species in a personal way. I've never seen a grizzly bear in real life, and it is unlikely I ever will, so it is nice to play a game where I can see some reasonably realistic behaviours and have fun looking after them.

At the end of the day, I don't think advocating for cetaceans in Planet zoo means that you believe dolphins should be in real zoos.

thank you for coming to my TEDtalk :)

[Varick]

"At the end of the day, I don't think advocating for cetaceans in Planet zoo means that you believe dolphins should be in real zoos." I think this says it in a nutshell. :)

Still, I think Frontier will save them and flying birds for another game as there is too much money to be made from them. Just my thought.

[Frogboyaidan2]

Originally posted by Varick:

"At the end of the day, I don't think advocating for cetaceans in Planet zoo means that you believe dolphins should be in real zoos." I think this says it in a nutshell. :)

Still, I think Frontier will save them and flying birds for another game as there is too much money to be made from them. Just my thought.

Yeah If we get planet zoo 2 I think we will get full aquatics and flying birds like how we got lagoons and expanded aviarys in JWE 2 and a proper pool system in Planet Coaster 2.

[Moshii Puppyy]

next you're gonna ask for Orcas