Recreating Real Zoos
Not Gameplay Related:
Apologies if posts like this aren't enjoyed or encouraged here but I recently had the idea to try to use the game pieces (and rules, to an extent) to map out real zoos in the world. Before giving it a go, I figured surely someone else has had this idea but I was unable to come up with anything searching around.
So, I went ahead and tried it out, starting with my hometown Maryland Zoo in Baltimore. It was a fun little creative venture to match up the animals as best as possible and then using the appropriate enclosures, try to recreate the actual shape/geography of the real life zoo. The most obviously glaring difference will be that I did not use a map from the game because a map would be way to small and not the right shape.
It was more successful than even I thought it would be so I am considering turning this into a regular thing to do other zoos in the world. I will take better pictures another time (minor changes have happened since this shot), including which animals and sponsors are included, as well as a summary of rules that were bent or completely broken in order to match the zoo as close as possible.