- Aren't they cute?
(gasping)
Zoo fame increased?
(laughing)
Watch out, Bronx zoo.
(laughing)
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Hi, my name is Frankie and I'm a zoo specialist.
I would say my job is to interpret
the collection of animals that a zoo would have
to talk about conservation in regards
to the animals and to talk about conservation in general
because a lot of it pertains to humans as well.
So most of what I do at the zoo
is special program, so I work with the scouts.
We spend the night there and they earn their badge.
So it's like night at the museum
except it's more like night at the zoo
except I don't live there.
(laughs)
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Hm, I suppose prospecting.
Looking at the space
and seeing how much space I have in general.
Well I have a lot of space it seems.
I'm rich.
It's like Matt Damon, we just bought a zoo.
So I think I'm gonna start in the back,
but like where is the back?
Where the light doesn't touch is not my zoo.
(laughs)
Like the Pridelands.
So I think right here I'm gonna build an outback zoo.
So if you want to see Australia exhibit
you have to go to the back.
Oh we gotta put animals in there.
Right I'm not just making space.
Okay so for my Australia exhibit, kangaroos.
At least, for me, I think it's like
important to follow the natural habitat.
Sometimes animals are kept in the same enclosure
if they would be found together in the wild.
So I'm gonna have, oh babies are expensive.
Okay nope to that.
I'm not rich.
Well, in the game I am.
Well I need to get other animals so I'll get a male.
I'm gonna adopt that one.
Let's add family group of four.
Kangaroos, if you see them in the outback,
they're pretty social animals.
Who else am I gonna get?
'Cos I wanna get two more.
This baby's mad expensive.
Five grand?
Right 'cos it's a baby, that makes sense.
Babies are expensive, just like human babies.
Not that you buy human babies, okay nevermind.
Aren't they cute?
(gasping)
Zoo fame increased?
(laughing)
Watch out, Bronx zoo.
(laughing)
Yo my zoo's gonna be so fame.
You know what that means?
I'm gonna charge a lot.
But I'm gonna have a free day so that
people who don't have access to zoos can still come.
But I'm gonna still make it expensive.
You want everybody to be able to be
a part of the conversation of conservation,
especially people living in the city or low income people.
The only way we'll be able to save the animals
and ourselves, is if we're all participating in it.
So let's get some food in.
So I need somewhere for them to poop.
I need a keeper and I need food and enrichment.
Those are like the four most important things I think.
They're herbivores I believe.
So I'm just gonna have that.
Ooh zoo fame increased.
Sorry.
We are not open on Fridays, too many people.
I need employees 'cos I can't do this all by myself.
Staff woo hoo.
You're hired, you're hired, you're fired, you're part time.
Brenda.
She commands a lot of money so she must be good.
You're worth it Brenda.
I think I kind of want to put all
of my similar habitats in one area.
Think that would make it easier on the keepers
as well as the maintenance staff.
Let's do temperate forest you know.
Connect it to the bathroom.
That way you know, between exhibits
they can go to the bathroom.
I don't know if it's lame.
I kinda wanna put alpacas there but people might shame me
and like why is her zoo so lame?
So I'm gonna put my Goldman's Jaguars.
So you have to be careful with certain animals.
You don't see like five tigers in an exhibit,
in the same space 'cos that's not how they live in the wild.
Okay so let's give Grace a baby.
Oh I have to check this.
Summer the Antilopine is unhappy.
Ah, Jesus.
What are my employees doing, 1900 dollars
on what's her name?
Brenda?
My kangaroo shouldn't be unhappy if Brenda's around.
This is not free people.
You see?
Minimum social group two animals.
It's really like maximum social group.
These guys are not friendly.
Okay so I'm gonna get baby Bella, meet your new mom.
6000.
You can clearly tell what kind of animals I like.
Summer is unhappy with their exhibit
try giving them a new toy.
What is it a shelter?
Yeah I'd be unhappy with that too.
You wanna make sure that the animal
is also safe in their exhibit.
I don't wanna get anything that's like
not something an Australian animal would be used to.
They could hurt themselves on a slide.
Especially, I don't know if you know,
they can't move their legs independently.
You know, I'm just gonna put a scratching post.
The grass and leaves, has run out of food.
Wow.
This is way too much.
No problem I'll just get them food.
I can't imagine how hard it must be to actually build a zoo.
So the back of my zoo is gonna be like
this temperate forest, oh I have a plan.
Yes, got it.
So here we have the food area.
What I want here is an experience.
Savannah.
Gonna put it right here, yes.
So like right after you come from Australia,
you know, what's gonna happen?
Oh I'll tell you what, giraffe feeding.
In the real world, it would be kind of cool
to design a zoo where you can put like multiple animals
in an exhibit whilst giving them their space.
Now in this game I do have the option
of small and medium for now.
Oh my gosh aren't they cute?
So you know what my biggest exhibit of course
is gonna be like the elephant exhibit.
I'm gonna have one right here.
Medium.
You know that's just not gonna work.
In the real world I don't think in good conscience
it would be a good idea for me to give them I think a large,
the largest exhibit so actually right here,
I'm gonna do another animal like a hippo.
Glenda's a baby.
And then I'll give her a mom.
Vixen, that's spicy.
I think the lions being close is not like
terrible so I'm gonna put lions here.
Whoa.
I have Capuchins and a Python, that's so cool.
Oh you know what would be actually cool?
Chimpanzees.
That's where they're going.
I'm gonna get the nice Bonobos.
These guys are freaky.
I'm gonna put a baby, yes.
Amber yes.
I think you can put, oh I got carried away.
Like I would have the elephants here.
So let's pretend that it was large.
So I'm gonna build an elephant area here
and I won't put anything near it
'cos I was putting space for the elephants.
So I'm gonna give them a medium savannah.
There's large.
Gonna connect it here.
So like, the guests can access it easy,
I know they love to come to see the big animals.
Okay adopt elephants.
You know what?
I'm gonna put Indian Elephants here
because, I mean both elephants
are facing a lot of habitat loss.
Oh Scotty isn't he cute?
I'll give him
and then a mom.
So this seems like my zoo is filled with
animals and their moms and I'll put three elephants.
But just know that I would give them enough space.
Yes for my zoo I do need a lake yeah.
Very nice.
The way I have my zoo, it might seem discombobulated
but I'm just trying to make sure that,
not only do my animals have space,
but that you want people to be able
to access the different exhibits.
People don't have a lot of time if they're tourists and you
wanna make sure that if they wanna see a certain animal
or certain groups of animals that they can
easily go there and not have to go all the way
to the other side and then all the way back.
Also I would try to have a tram running around it.
So here I'll put in a zoo keeper center.
And actually you know, you don't want
the zoo keeper center front and center to the public.
I'll put it here.
Think I'm gonna put the breeding center here.
That way people, when they come in,
it's not like all the way in the back.
'Cos you don't want people also in a zoo
kind of wandering off to see things
and if we have a breeding center, like way off,
people might try to go see it and think it's like
some sort of secret operation.
So here I have my welcome center and then I'll over here
have my elephants so that there's an easy access
from the entrance so people who really wanna see elephants,
which is a lot of times, that's
one of the first things people ask for.
Monkeys or elephants or like sort of big, large animals.
So I connected a path so you can go from elephants
or the concession where you can eat
and then you can go feed the giraffes.
And I made it like two point accessible so
you can go from the outback to feeding the giraffes
to then going to eat yourself.
So you know what?
This breeding center is actually where we'll
probably do breeding of animals that fall under the SSP,
which is a species survival plan.
Sort of an office center where they're keeping track of
really like highly sensitive material.
Whereas the breeding center in the front,
I think is more like education programming animals
or animals that we want to be able to
take to schools sort of a nursery, I didn't
see that option so I used breeding center.
I would have liked to have a reptile
house at some point near there but that's okay.
I wanna make it accessible for the keepers so,
to be honest, I would've actually centralized it
so that the keepers can access
all the exhibits from the center.
I think my expertise was pretty good
in showing like I wanted
the zoo to thrive as far as making money
so that it can feed the animals and make the animals happy
and sort of push conservation
more so than the animals itself.
This was actually really fun and cool.
I was way more into it than I thought I was gonna be.
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