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saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
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| Subject: So you can only have five.. Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:43 am | |
| So, me and a friend occasionally toss around the idea of setting up a small zoo and/or aquarium. This time we ended up out on a bit of a tangent.
You can keep 5 types of animals. There is no limit to the resources available. You have whatever food/land/habitat/veterinary requirements at your disposal. There's also no limit to the number of said animal. Flock, school, what have you, breeding or anything else you would/could normally do is allowed.
Optional, since we were talking about zoos, is: Why would people come see them?
Anyway, to start with, one of my top choices was to have a small petting/feeding area with Aldabra tortoises. They're big, they don't mind people right off the bat, and with some regular interaction they get real accustomed to people real fast.
I had more ideas, but what would you have? | |
| | | Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist
Posts : 4566
Age : 44 Location : New Mexico USA Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:10 am | |
| Would love to have a buffalo farm, A Koi pond would be nice as well. Long horned sheep have always amused me. | |
| | | dirtydawg10 Global Moderator
Posts : 3098
Age : 52 Location : Connecticut Favorite Fish : Severum
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:31 am | |
| I've always been a huge fan of cheetahs. I just think it would be amazing to see them in a natural habitat chasing down their prey.
I could think of endless amounts of animals I would love to keep but I think the best case scenario is always a natural type of habitat. Some of the coolest places I have been to allow the animals to roam freely and you can drive through the parks or a guided bus takes you through to observe the animals.
A native animal park is always cool too. There is one I have been to in Grey, ME which is a great idea. They have a lot of native animals and even ones you may have never expected were native to the area. Granted the one in Grey is not large enough to allow the animals all to roam somewhat freely but a combination of these two ideas would be a sweet thing IMO.
This is a good thread to bring back to life, MC. | |
| | | Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist
Posts : 4566
Age : 44 Location : New Mexico USA Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Wed Jun 09, 2010 11:34 am | |
| Well every now and then I file through the unanswered threads this is one that caught the attention. | |
| | | wboyden Member
Posts : 19
Age : 51 Location : Springfield, MA Favorite Fish : Dont exactly have a Favorite, like them all. For all different reasons.
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:45 am | |
| - saint_felony wrote:
You can keep 5 types of animals. There is no limit to the resources available. You have whatever food/land/habitat/veterinary requirements at your disposal. There's also no limit to the number of said animal. Flock, school, what have you, breeding or anything else you would/could normally do is allowed.
Optional, since we were talking about zoos, is: Why would people come see them?
Anyway, to start with, one of my top choices was to have a small petting/feeding area with Aldabra tortoises. They're big, they don't mind people right off the bat, and with some regular interaction they get real accustomed to people real fast.
I had more ideas, but what would you have? "Another breath of life" This could be an interesting discussion on how different people from different areas look at things. The first thing I noticed with this that it is 5 "types" not looking any futher then what is there. This can be a rather loaded question going as basic as possible. I would have to go with Fishes, Birds, Reptiles, Mammals and Amphibians maybe not exactly in that order but to take the question literally the possibilites would be rather endless. Why would people come, well because it would be the biggest in the world ...lol | |
| | | saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:37 pm | |
| I meant 5 as in specific species, kinda thing. | |
| | | Jim Banned
Posts : 45
Age : 74 Location : Mid-West Indiana Humor : If At First You Dont Succeed...Go Fishin Favorite Fish : Currently North American Native fishes
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:34 pm | |
| I would have (1) wolves, to study their interaction as a pack, as far as how their pecking order works
2. a Huge Grizzly Bear
3. a herd of elephants
4. a huge aquarium, probably Marine, I have a lot to learn there.
5. and a partridge in a pear tree, did i say that out loud???? | |
| | | dirtydawg10 Global Moderator
Posts : 3098
Age : 52 Location : Connecticut Favorite Fish : Severum
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Fri Sep 17, 2010 2:05 pm | |
| I would recommend going with the partridge under the pear tree. If you plant some shrubbery and/or grasses under the tree the partridge would like it much better as they are ground nesting birds | |
| | | saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Sat Sep 18, 2010 2:55 am | |
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| | | dirtydawg10 Global Moderator
Posts : 3098
Age : 52 Location : Connecticut Favorite Fish : Severum
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:09 pm | |
| I love that movie. | |
| | | WhiteGloveAquatics Member
Posts : 134
Age : 44 Location : Chicagoland Humor : raunchy and mean Favorite Fish : Discus,Rams,Angels,Dwarf cichlids,tetras oh and flathead catfish
| Subject: Re: So you can only have five.. Wed Dec 01, 2010 9:12 pm | |
| Id do a game farm, big game.
trophy animals
Deer(sub species, white tail, sitka and mule) Elk Buffalo Moose Big horn sheep
petting zoo
pygmy goats vietnamese pot bellied pigs Shetland ponies Various waterfowl Donkey
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