Reindeer

Zoo Park is just over two weeks until launch. Today’s animal A Day feature introduces you to the Reindeer, those creatures that pull Santa’s/ st Nick’s/ father Christmas’s etc sleigh.

Location: Cold Climate

Diet: Hebivore
Lifespan:  12 – 15 years in the wild
Interesting fact: Depending on the season, the reindeers hooves will adapt to change with the terrain. During the summer periods their footpads become sponge-like but in the windter they shrink and tighten to prevent the reindeer from slipping on Ice.

Here’s a video showing off the reindeer whilst telling you how they became the legendary creatures that pull santa’s sleigh

The Hippopotamus

The Hippopotamus was named by the greeks as the “river horse” because they love water, they can spend up to 16 hours a day in rivers and lakes to keep themselves cool in the African sun. If I spent that long in water, there’s a chance the wrinkles would make me look like some sort of giant raison

Location: Africa
Diet: Herbivore
Lifespan: Up to 40 years in the wild
Interesting fact: When hippos bask on the shoreline they can often be seen to leak an oily red substance, this started a myth at how hippos sweat blood. In fact the liquid is a skin moistener and sunblock which can also provide protection from germs.

Here’s an extraordinary video of Karl Pilkington visiting a family that have a hippo as a pet. We really would not recommend this, but we do love Karl pilkington’s reaction!

The African Elephant

It’s Monday! Which for many people is the beginning of a massive work week, so we've decided what better way to celebrate Monday than to celebrate with the most massivest (yes, that’s not a word) land animal on Earth!? It’s the African Elephant.

Location: Africa
Diet: Herbivore
Lifespan: up to 70 years in the wild
Interesting fact: Never offer to treat an elephant to dinner at a fancy restaurant as they can consume up to 136 kilograms of food in a single day! This does make them one of the more expensive animals to keep in a zoo!

Considering how enormous these creatures are, it’s interesting to see how these creatures take shape from a new-born. Here’s a lovely video documentary series from a wildlife documentary legend!

The Black Panther

The Black Panther is not necessarily a species in its own right, more so a colour variant of jaguars or leopards which is caused by a genetic mutation. We wanted to include as many types of animals and this genetic variant interested us.

Therefore our information on the animal is going to be a little bit different to the animal a day features from earlier so we’ll be sharing some info regarding the leopard which the black panther is a subspecies of.

Location: Africa
Diet: Carnivore
Lifespan: Around 21 years in captivity
Interesting fact: Lions and Hyenas will attempt to take away a leopard’s kill if they can. The leopard will store their larger kills in trees where they are able to feed on them in safety.

How could I not share the jungle book!? Check out below for a brief video, we’ll be watching the Jungle Book later this week!

The Announcement Trailer

Just a quick update! We announced Zoo Park: Run Your Own Animal Sanctuary officially a couple of weeks ago. If you've yet to see any game play footage, we do have a trailer that you might want to take a look at.

We are planning to share more news very soon. If you have any questions about the game, leave them in the comments below and we’ll do our best to answer them.