Building an African Mixed Habitat in Franchise Mode! | San Bernardino Zoo | Planet Zoo

Planet Zoo | Okapi, Bongo & Red River Hog live together in this lush, natural habitat - The first habitat in San Bernardino Zoo's African area!
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00:00 Back to Africa!
00:21 Franchise Tips for Better Terrain
03:35 Planting a Natural Habitat
06:32 New Anniversary Animal!
13:16 Africa Cinematics!
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[@thijswauters4920]

San Bernardino + Saturday evening = perfect combo ❤

[@ZSHplays]

Aw thanks!

[@bolotenha]

"and some pigs running about" 🤣🤣 I discovered your channel yesterday and I'm so glad I did! I'm binge watching this series and I'm loving it!!

[@ZSHplays]

Welcome to the channel!

[@dylanmckenzie3172]

If you want to know more about how zoos combine hoofstock, the AZA ungulate specialist group have very comprehensive documents for cervids, antelopes (broken down by habitat type), suids and I think hippos

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks for the tip!

[@connoroneill9406]

Almost forgot it was Saturday 🎉

[@ZSHplays]

Glad I could remind you 😆

[@cactus.goblin]

beautiful build, love how simple the idea was and how lovely the execution! i love mixed species habitats, and loveeee the thought you put into the different sizes of animals and different heights of terrain and how they'd mesh to make the best view for the guests!

[@ZSHplays]

Glad you like it!

[@juanda_55]

A great starting habitat for the red river hog and the bongo I look forward to more

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks!

[@Squiddy25]

Ever since I started watching your vids I have aspired to you and tried to build like you. Thank you for all the things I have built in the past.

[@ZSHplays]

No problem! Glad I've inspired you!

[@reimi3660]

new animals would be nice yes, but i would love if frontier would modify the old models or something like that.

[@ZSHplays]

Yeh that would be good!

[@AndrewNorman94]

This habitat looks amazing! Really excited about the upcoming anniversary of PZ! As for this year's anniversary animal: personally I would love to see more small cat species in the game, so I'm going to say I'd love to see the Serval make it in. If not, then I'd love to see the Spectacled Bear make the cut!

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks! Both good choices!

[@football.World12321]

Please do an ostrich habitat next they are one of my favorite animals And i would love to see them in your zoo

[@ZSHplays]

They are under consideration for the Savannah

[@kelseajohnson8681]

I’m loving catching up with this series 😁 Every episode I’m amazed at the ideas your coming up with! Well done, keep it going🥳

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks!

[@KBMasterr]

I love the use of enrichment pieces to make the bigger species stay at the back of the enclosure ^^

[@ZSHplays]

Glad you like it!

[@SheepersBeepers]

I think there's an untapped well of small mammals for the anniversary animal: rabbits, mink, opossum, marten, coatimundi, kinkajou... Or they could throw a curveball and give us some dolphins or whales. I definitely have my fingers crossed for manatees.

[@ZSHplays]

I think that may be a little ambitious for a free animal, would love a Coati though!

[@onewaysaintlaika]

I'm hoping for an anniversary animal(s) as part of walkthrough exhibits--maybe rainbow lorikeets?

[@ZSHplays]

That would be awesome, can’t see birds being added for free though!

[@istan21]

Thank u for doing my suggestion!

[@ZSHplays]

No problem!

[@timonheidema6837]

I really recommend the Wildlands Zoo in Emmen, the Netherlands, for some ideas on some quite large exhibits with many animals in one exhibit! I always love it there, because the animals have plenty of space and their co-habitation just feels natural.

[@ZSHplays]

I actually built their Beaver habitat in my Moonlight World zoo!

[@timonheidema6837]

@@ZSHplays Oh wow! I should take a look at that! That zoo is one of the my most favourite zoos I've been to!

[@ZSHplays]

Enjoy!

[@pakrett2760]

I really love your videos, your habitats are always a big inspiration for my own. Only discovered your page a few months ago but have binge watched your planet zoo series! For the anniversary animal I would love to have marmosets they are so cute and have so much personnality. I would understand that they are too small for a habitat and an exhibit would probably be too small but I still hope. Otherwise any type of bears would make me so happy

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks! Yes Marmosets would be amazing! What we need is a new version of the walkthrough exhibit that doesn't have a path in it for small monkeys & birds.

[@Nyaarys]

This habitat looks so good, I love it! I have a habitat with red River Hogs and okapi in my main zoo build and think they look so good together! Also; does anybody have any tips, or know of any guides, on how to colour match with the flexicolour shapes? It looked so easy in the clips here, but I've tried to do that in a few different builds, and I really struggle to get things to match well. :/ Is there some trick to it that could make it easier, or is it just a skill you have to develop over time?

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks! I used to do a bit of graphic design so I’ve got a lo5 of experience of colour tools, I think it’s just experience (and speeding up the footage 😆)

[@rexyjp1237]

3:33 in rudi his recent video he made a fence with the conversation slat pieces, that could maybe work for some cheap fences for animals like camels.

[@ZSHplays]

Yeh I don’t really like the texture on those so don’t use them very often

[@NRReptile]

Omg this looks really good! I got to love a classic habitat, and I love that you have multiple species in one enclosure! I’m excited for what next week will bring, also if the next animal in the African forest are hippos could they please be Pygmy hippos? They look so cute and they are more tropical than regular hippos so I think that they would fit this area perfectly! Anyway I love these weekly videos and I’ll be back next week! (I’m also excited about the anniversary animal my guess is a spectacled bear or a Rhea, that would be awesome!)

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks! We will be having Hippos in the river, I already built for Pygmy Hippos in my Tekton Zoo so going with the big ones this time!

[@NRReptile]

Ok either way I know it will look amazing I am still real excited for hippos, for some reason a lot of people don’t build for them anyway so honestly I’m glad you doing it for the common hippo!

[@reddragon7684]

Brilliant video love the enclosure

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks RD!

[@jjbray22]

I’m on Jurassic World Evolution 2 and now I have to binge a similar game. Love your channel!

[@ZSHplays]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@Mason-VR]

Yay another episode! I love this series!❤

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks!

[@wladimirkoszmar268]

I really hope we will see europeans bisons in the game at some point

[@ZSHplays]

Good choice, the existing Bison isn't the best model so would be good to get an upgrade

[@p-aboily5981]

Amazing! You keep referencing an animal care manual, I was wondering if you are talking about the Zoopedia or if there is another document such as the zoopedia online. Thank you! This is my comfort series on an off day.

[@ZSHplays]

Aw thanks! Most animals kept in zoos have a Care Manual prepared by zoo associations based on the combined experience of the zoos keeping them. AZA etc, I just google them!

[@p-aboily5981]

@@ZSHplays This is so helpful! Thanks for the free franchise masters lol. Keep up the awesome work!

[@EvelynAdamsOfcl]

Aren't lemurs primates, I was wondering:) anyway, now that I've successfully watched all of the videos, I can't believe I'm gonna have to wait for episodes 🤭 am currently playing career challenges in Planet Zoo for the reward statues, cuz that entrance!!! Thank you for another fantastic episode:) can't wait to see how the Africa part of the zoo is going to look like! Oh btw, how's the lag in game with more and more animals and such intricate builds?

[@ZSHplays]

Yup, primitive primates, I forgot all about them 😆 The lag is getting troublesome to be honest, I'm probably on 20fps? Gonna look at upgrading my rig soon as it's not the best.

[@henryvaughan7283]

Really? Lemurs have tails and tails= monkey and monkey= not ape and ape= human and human=ape and ape= not monkey

[@Calleo-qv3dj]

Favourite pz series atm!

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks!

[@CommonFabian]

This Africa section is really shaping up to be great! Hope to see pygmy hippos here too 😁

[@ZSHplays]

Just their big brothers is the plan at the moment!

[@CommonFabian]

Fine by me as well! Haven't seen anyone do a Hippo habitat in a while.

[@lucid_3938]

FRANCHISE MASTERS MUSIC MY BELOVED WHERE HAVE YOU GONE 😢

[@ZSHplays]

Haha! I love this comment 😆 I felt it was too early in the episode to change the music

[@chapterseventeen1913]

This game is on sale on Steam @ $13.49 down from $44.99. Offer ends November 2.

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks for the tip!

[@moodapenkinislazy]

I think the anniversary animal is either the spectacled Bear, greater rhea, or a musk ox

[@ZSHplays]

Good choices! I’d like a Bear actually because it would be a much better model than the ones we have now

[@Mumbai_Mahout]

I'm still hoping for the Asiatic Lion, but Leaf suggested a new Orang Utan which would make sense with the newly added brachiation. Indian antelope/black buck could be a good one too.

[@ZSHplays]

@@Mumbai_Mahout that’s actually a good idea, even though Sumatran & Bornean are basically identical the Bornean in PZ is so poor that a Sumatran with real fur and proper climbing would be great!

[@Mumbai_Mahout]

@@ZSHplays specially the proper climbing and walking yes!

[@henryvaughan7283]

My grandfather died Saturday and your videos really make my day. It’s been hard and because of you my depression is getting a little bit less hard.

[@ZSHplays]

I’m so sorry to hear that Henry. Hopefully there will be an Anniversary gift from Frontier this week to cheer you up a little? Hang in there! ❤️

[@henryvaughan7283]

Thanks ZSH and the gifts mostly, are good so I hope

[@aradaskarian]

amazing video

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks!

[@megangowers8411]

I think that the aniversiary animal we be a small primate like you said or the river otter or nile cockidile and personally i think teh next pack will be the aviary pack

[@ZSHplays]

All great choices!

[@user-mm4ng8wh9q]

anybody else want slightly longer videos that show a bit more of his thinking and especially planting and habitat work?

[@Trashcan8088]

Nice

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks!

[@officialloutom7213]

the mudpit is an octagon ;D

[@ZSHplays]

Haha thanks!

[@sockpuppetman26]

tbh I'd appreciate a new pnw animal for the anniversary

[@ZSHplays]

Pnw?

[@sockpuppetman26]

@@ZSHplays pacific northwest, like western canada, washington state sort of area. I think cool animals would be something like jackrabbits, elk, bighorn sheep, or coyotes.

[@ZSHplays]

@@sockpuppetman26 aha ok

[@tyleraccardo8473]

“I’m going to add a bunch of these dead leaves to bring some life to the habitat”😂😂

[@ZSHplays]

Haha! You got me 😆

[@Ghillie_Dhu_]

Youve inspired me to play jurassic world evolution 2 again, it may not be planet zoo but its something

[@ZSHplays]

Been a while since I played that, enjoy!

[@sallywilkins2131]

hi ZSH i love your san bernardino zoo episodes and im going to ask my dad if i can join

[@ZSHplays]

Thanks Sally! Please do make sure you have permission before you join and remember that I value all my subscribers so there is no need at all to become a member ❤

[@nobodyshekatonchires7981]

Probably not gonna happen, but I'd love it if we got a shark or something for the anniversary. Or puffins, they're adorable. The walking on water comment reminded me that my King penguins have started just standing up on water when near building materials haha

[@ZSHplays]

I saw Puffins in Iceland a few years ago, so cute!

[@Shrek_donke]

If they add a Walrus in the game, everyone will use it immediately!!

[@ZSHplays]

That is true 😆

[@Shrek_donke]

@@ZSHplays Well I hope they will add it in this year’s Anniversary

[@AlejandraJimenaDelosReyes]

The most beautiful animal in the world you say... is it a penguin? It's gotta be that blue fella

[@ZSHplays]

They are gorgeous

[@Kobe13188]

so cool (not as cool as wombats)❤

[@charlie_541]

i have a guess as to what your favorite animal is lol

[@ZSHplays]

I try!

[@ZSHplays]

Haha 😆

[@georgefarrall3679]

Anniversary animal- silvery gibbon, sumatran orangutan, persian oneger, adean bear, siluawsi macque, asiatic lion, spider monkey, lion headed tamrin PLEASE JUST ONE OF THESE

[@ZSHplays]

Tamarin!!

[@NathanielSeifert]

i hoping for the nile crocodile for the anniversary for planet zoo

[@ZSHplays]

I’ll be annoyed if it’s a new African animal when I’ve already planned the area 😆

[@Queen_Of_P.A.T]

It's an octogone 8:21

[@ZSHplays]

Haha thanks!

[@katherinepaulson9158]

I was kinda late to this video I was watching the boxing

[@ZSHplays]

Hope you enjoyed it!

[@scarecrow9501]

Could you make a tutorial on how to make nocturnal house I’m struggling man

[@ZSHplays]

Can’t be done really, it’s always too light

[@user-nj5ek6if7n]

Could u pls add both Asian and African elephants to the zoo? I would like to see ur creative habitat for both species of elephants. Btw,my favourite animal is elephants.🐘🐘🐘😄😄

[@ZSHplays]

It will just be the African, zoos with both are vanishingly rare these days!

[@mushroom540]

Second? Ye I did not made it today D:

[@ZSHplays]

Haha almost!

[@Ldier614]

A Humboldtpinguïn for a anniversary animal?

[@ZSHplays]

Love Humboldt but they are identical to the Africans really

[@Ldier614]

@@ZSHplays their are no penguins in the base game

[@ZSHplays]

@@Ldier614 true, but then that lessens sales for the dlcs haha

[@Ldier614]

@@ZSHplays 😂

[@chandlermollen3741]

Hi ZSH I have a idea that you might like for a series when this amazing one is done: Here it is. my idea for a series is to do a fan designed zoo. What I mean by this is you have a hole zoo built off of the comments. That would mean you take designs from the comments and insert them into a zoo that you build and make the ideas Or habitats from the comments better and or just build the in general. If you pin this and it gets over 1.5k likes would you consider doing it

[@ZSHplays]

A few people do community zoos like this, ZooF is doing one at the moment. Personally I like to have a vision and see it through so the idea doesn’t really appeal to me I’m afraid.

[@chandlermollen3741]

@@ZSHplays That is very understandable and I like that you stick to your ideas also great job on this habitat like always. Would you ever consider a dome like zoo build I don't know how it would work

[@ZSHplays]

@@chandlermollen3741 thanks! I think a. Whole zoo in a dome might be a bit much for me

[@chandlermollen3741]

@@ZSHplays Probably

[@spenceblankenship113]

Are you gonna make a wildebeest/zebra/other species habitat

[@ZSHplays]

I am indeed!

[@spenceblankenship113]

@@ZSHplays *heavenly noises*

[@spenceblankenship113]

@@ZSHplays you need to have wildebeest in a Serengeti planet wild

[@Charlestons-House]

So far I think this would cost 100mil irl lol

[@ZSHplays]

Haha at least!

[@ringling1034]

E

[@rexyjp1237]

Are you a dog or a cat person?

[@ZSHplays]

Cat! We have 3.

[@joarlarsen3688]

Dawg can you do two things in one video cuz it's kinda annoying that the vids are 15 minutes long

[@SB5v]

Damn the rude entitlement oozes from you huh?

[@ZSHplays]

Watch it on half speed

[@megangowers8411]

lol@@ZSHplays