These relics of the ice age are among the heaviest squirrels, partly due to the fact that they can reach allmost 10 kilos just before hibernating, roughly quintupling their weight from the ~2 kg they have after hibernation. This is due to an bottle neck effect, because the animal that we now know from the alps has once ranged across most of northern eurasia, living in cold grasslands during the pleistocene like giant prarie dogs, but as we all know the pleistocene is no more and so are the cold grasslands of the iceage, meaning they only survived barely in a pocket that still resembles somewhat their old habitat, that being the alps. Traveling to the alps, we find our next animal, the alpine marmot and starting with a little funfact, did you know that the alpine marmot is among the least genetically diverse wild animals? So a herbivorous, arboreal, somewhat social bear that covers a vast range of biomes for south america? When enough food is available they often find themself in small groups eating, sleeping and traveling together. ![]() You might think that would make them dependend on trees but as you might have allready guessed from the cactus in their diet, they are actually found in lots of different biomes in the andes, inhabiting not just the magical cloud forests full of life and fruits, but also alpine grasslands, dry forests and scrub deserts and even up to the snow line, making them easily the bear that covers the largest range of biomes.Īnother rare thing in bears is that while solitary, they also arnt agressive to their own kind or most things above a certain size, as they mostly only hunt for rodent size prey, but there have been reports of them successfully hunting guanacos, lamas, cattle and even mountain tapirs. Its also the heaviest non tapir creature in south america, but still its partially arboreal, often making their nests in trees and climbing away from danger, making them a fun spin on usual bear habitats. Its also quite unique as its a herbivore, with over 95% of its diet consisting of cactus, fruit, differnet plants and even bamboo, being the second most herbivorous bear after the panda. Its the last remaining short faced bear and therefor geneticly by far the most unique bear. The spectacle bear has a few things going for it, for example its heritage. ![]() Starting of, we got the spectacle Bear, the propaply most interesting bear left to add and the only one from south america. ![]() I will also take into account that typically frontier does not introduce more then 3 riggs in a pack, so i will try to keep that in mind. Personally i prefer the former approach, so we will see 1 animal from the andes, 1 from the alps, 2 from the himalaya, 1 from the atlas mountains, 1 from the ethyopian highlands, 1 from australia and 1 from the dinaric alps, giving us a wide array from all over the world. There are many different ways to do this, equal chare for as many different mountain ranges as possible, going all in on one in particular cough cough himalaya cough cough Winter 2023 Mountain Animal Pack: For the end of the year, id like to see another biome pack with mountains being the most interesting still left out. Not the miracle worker that the red deer was for europes basegame representation, but still something meaningfull for "just" a different looking ostritch. This would be a nice boost for South America for all players, most notably for the base game and while not good, having 3 very different animals makes for an a little better foundation for the region. they are currently being very successfully phased in for greater rheas in the EAZA, where the larger plan is that over time more zoos will keep the more vulnerable darwins rhea. is from the andes and southern tip of south america, a so far badly underrepresented region and 3. Darwins Rhea is smaller then the other rhatites in the game (well besides the fruit) and will have a more significant gameplay difference, 2. I also choose the Darwins Rhea over the greater, because 1. ![]() I chose a rhea to complete the package without "wasting" a dlc bird slot for it (you will see why later) and their prominence in south american mixed species habitat. Im propapply gonna split this in one post for each quarter of the year to not have to write the whole thing in one go, so here we go:Īnniversary 1: After the second and thrid anniversary gave us a new lemure and a new deer, we keep it low key and complete the ratites with dawins rhea. After the oceania pack i felt an odd sense of excitement to redo an island pack, but while i was at it, i noticed how the new door opened the door to some new speculation, as regional packs are now offically back, so to flex my creativity while trying to stay realisitic.
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