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Their preferred habitats do not include boreal, so likely not in this zoo as their size would mean extensive facilities for getting them through the winter.

Certainly a second floor could be an option. There's a lot of backstage space on the right side of the building, just ground floor though.

That seems to have changed. These Juxia can and do enter the building in the park.

@@dinobob5401 Ooh that's great news!

To an extent. It's the same tree model with two tress in exactly the same place; one is standard leaf color and the other the autumn variant. More or less of one color shows when you rotate one of them to various degrees. The look breaks down when you zoom in, but it makes a fair impression of a tree in the midst of leaf color change.

Steadily more animations are edited to the guests!

Careful study of the animals' paths and areas they reach was made before committing to the rock shapes and heights, according to the park's publicity department. [I checked whether the animals could climb out using the in-game tool for that.] As NewAge notes, then guests have been getting more animations. They look toward enclosures in several ways now, sometimes even through rocks and walls.

Staff gates are a recent add to the game. Staff can use them but guests cannot.

Thanks! I have been working with a modified version of it for another part of the zoo and discovered that way more of the pieces are just off alignment that I'd like. There's work to be dome before uploading it. Do you think it would be a better upload with or without the foliage, rocks, feeders, hay beds, and/or mini aviaries

@@dinobob5401 Yeah, I get the alignment issue but that shouldn't prevent you from uploading. It's actually why I always build on world grid before moving into place. I'd say it's more versatile without foliage. But if you're particular proud of the interior you can do a couple of things: upload two versions (one with complete interior, one with bare minimum); upload the interior separately and provide instructions to line up both; or ¨slide¨ the indoor outside the building but upload it as one file, then people can either slide it back inside or delete just parts.

@@NewAge374 I cleaned up the building and uploaded, complete with interior, as "Exhibit Barn."

@@dinobob5401 Awesome, will check it out!

They are usually described as quills.

It's hard to get a handle on how much food production is enough in game, especially with the way the staff operate right now. But you're right, the space given over to production of food in the modules is way too tiny.

They are what the devs provided.

No animals jump tab this time. Jumping is something the devs have on their to do list, so maybe someday. It''s an open question as to what sort of anti-jumping measures, if any, they will introduce. That said, I imagine those habitats walls have hot wire near their tops (something that would be invisible almost all the time if I bothered to add modular pieces to simulate it.)

Everything is still subject to tuning up, The big cats are particularly prone to glide-walking atm and these cats are having issues with the, admittedly, steep slopes. and patly through the edge of openings in modular walls.

Glad you like the take.

That's all I do. Thanks for dropping by!

In a 2018 paper, Bamforth and Koppelhus concluded that "According to the Köppen Climate Classification System (Köppen, 1936; Esssenwager, 2001), this places Dinosaur Provincial Park within a ‘mesothermal’ environment classification, defined as a climate in which the temperature during the coldest month is less than 13°C. Subtropical climates (a subdivision of mesothermal climates) are characterized by a temperature range of 6-13°C during the coldest month, and an average temperature greater than 22°C during the warmest month. With a cold month mean temperature of 5.1°C, the paleoenvironment of Dinosaur Provincial Park falls just within this range." They did note that further research would be useful in clarifying a number of matters.

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Juxia is more closely related to rhinos. It is an odd-toed ungulate like tapirs, but then horses are odd-tired ungulates as well

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I want that to be a feature of this park

True enough, but the bit I did in this one was a fraction of the time it took to build the whole habitat, the shelter and the viewing fencing. Alas, RUclips doesn't;t want someone with as few viewers as me making videos that long.

That's a common practice in modern zoos and not just for small animals. Of course, most modern animals are "small" in PK terms.

Isn't it just

It is actually well over the size recommended in the game's paleopedia. Usually I go bigger than the currently recommended sizes (many of which are much smaller than previous recommendations) but I wanted a small "teaser" sort of habitat for this one.

fF anything, I guess it's a modern zoo-style presentation with an eco slant.

Yup

Apparently I can. They are up as Guest Arrival, starter and Guest Tickets, starter

@@dinobob5401 brilliant great videos

Yup, you caught me having a memory lapse on the Camarasaurus size

Thanks! Significant changes making for improved gameplay are coming in EA Update 11 and the first part of that is scheduled too arrive May 10.

Yeah, it does. with their talk of separating all the alternative species out into their own thing and the possibility of information screens for each, maybe that will extend to the animals signs. After all, 2 out of 3 Edmontosaurus types in the game do not have the soft tissue crest.

It does indeed. I do hope we'll be getting more backstage preps in the future; things are a little sparse atm and a "one piece" tableland such like would be nice for conserving piece count

@@dinobob5401 Oh it's by no means finished. I would love to see more food products as props, for serving guests as well as feeding animals. Stuff like tables and other furniture is tricky because the real life variety is immense: mostly in zoos you'll see modern or utilitarian furniture which I don't mind but it wouldn't be so versatile

@@NewAge374 Me, too. I find some of the benches we've been getting of late more theme park than zoo in their design. For example, I have no idea how a zoo could manage to keep clean those Stone Age fur-covered rock benches.

Thanks!

Tail tails for sure but relatively flat side to side. They look like they might be good for propulsion, but paleontologists argue about just how functional they are; par for the course for the controversial spinosaurus.

Ah, you guessed why I picked it. lol. They do all look very good. The pair with "scutes" (or are they feature scales?) have high crocodilian energy but no real basis in the fossils AFAIK.

@@dinobob5401 Yeah, it's a part of paleontology that is still so full of assumptions and philogenetic bracketing. Even with some like T.rex and Psittacosaurs where partial skin impressions are found, it's not enough to describe the whole animal throughout their entire life, let alone be an indication for relatives.

@@NewAge374 Spinosaurus is practically the poster child for changing interpretations.

Glad you like it! Spinosaurus definitely likes a lot of water.

Thanks! I already have a place reserved for Leaelly. Guests do indeed go up on custom viewing platforms, although they are currently "not viewing animals properly" which means they don't go do viewing well at all and don't make donations. One hopes the next update will fix this.

Keepers working with animals while visitors watch them is an old staple of zoos, although some species tolerate more easily than others. I can't recall seeing a viewing area set above irl, but I have seen it done in a number of Planet Zoo and Prehistoric Kingdom zoos.

I have! There is indeed a previously unrevealed animal.

There are actually three habitats in the video: 1 Muttaburrasaurus and 2 Carcharodontosaurus. How long they took is hard to say as the whole of Port Prehistorique was built with a lot of quick habitats and roughed-out buildings to get the park up to 5 stars; I have been going back to finish out habitats and buildings prior to making videos, so it's hard to know exact times. It's definitely much faster using the PK foliage brush with the curated selections (or making my own by selecting a small range of plants) than Planet Zoo style place them all individually mechanics. In PK I spent a fair bit of time tweaking what the brush puts down both for "necessity" (underwater terrestrial plants are silly) and esthetics.

As to favorite animals, that's hard. My usual response is the one I'm focussed on. There's a reason my handle is DINObob and not (insert favorite dinosaur here)bob.

@@dinobob5401 makes sense!

I did confuse them; must have been blinded by the size. I'd be happy with all of them being their estimated real sizes.

Sorry about the slow reply (I was away the whole weekend) but thanks! Naturally there are a lot of reasons to choose one's next animal whatever gets unlocked. Pdf you already have Torvo, you can add to your Jurassic animals at 3 stars with Camarasaurus.

@@dinobob5401 Oooh,thanks.I will save up a bit more money first to afford the research though.

Always got to watch the budget @@FantikSalmakii

Glad you like 'em.

Thank you very much!

Thanks!

I don't recall visitors casting shadows on each other. They previously been most noticeable for walking around with only their heads casting chides; but game settings and camera distance both affect shadow appearance