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Eden PaleoZoological Park is both a zoo and a true safari experience, with some of its enclosures being nearly 15 miles in length from one fence to the next and over one hundred square miles in area. In these large reserves almost three thousand captive animals of dozens of species are allowed a great degree of freedom in a naturalistic environment, where they are able to develop and exhibit the behaviors they would have exhibited in the wild. Unlike the smaller exhibits at the center of the park that can be easily viewed on foot, animals on the reserve can only be viewed via safaris, both through cars and buses that drive along the roads that run through the enclosures, via the monorail, or within large off-road enabled safari vehicles. Because of the size of these areas and the large expanses of natural forest and swamp environments they incorporate, it is an exciting challenge to try and spot as many species as one can, because not unlike a safari in the wilds of Africa, you never know what you will spot, or where.
Animals do tend to congregate near watering holes and supplemental feeding stations, however, where visitors are always guaranteed excellent viewing of favorites such as the Columbian mammoth, Parasaurolophus, or Stegosaurus aongside many smaller mammals and dinosaurs such as Synthetoceros and Ornithomimus. Eden's animals are genetically engineered to look their parts, but to allow such a varied display of animals together has required a degree of artistic license on the part of the animal's designers; potentially dangerous large animals are likely a great deal more domesticated in demeanor than their real-life counterparts, both amongst other animals and human caretakers. Often the giants within these mixed displays are also sterile and sexless, without hormones to influence their behavior. Creatures like the Stegosaurus that in nature would never know grass or other modern flora are at Eden also made to be fully able to digest it. Eden aims for an immersive illusion of a natural ecosystem, a goal it has succeeded in producing, but only through many artificial controls and measures.
Furthering the effect, the reserves host both herbivorous and stereotypically predatory animal groups together, though the carnivores included are of types far too small to bother their neighbors significantly. Buitreraptor is included here in an alternate interpretation to the variation exhibited in Wings, not as a fisher but as an insectivore, and here it follows the footsteps of the giants to capture insects and small animals flushed by their movements through the meadow grasses. Yi qi, an accidental introduction, is now feral and breeding on the island and can be spotted occasionally flitting through its forests. At first impression, the small population of cave bears that roam freely within the open areas alongside more typically prey species may be assumed to be predators, but the species is in fact a gentle herbivore without carnivorous tendencies (a natural inclination exaggerated with the bears designed for display here, who have all but lost any remnant carnivorous inclinations from their real-life models and do not harass their neighbors.)
The reserves at Eden are secure from the inside and captive animals released here cannot escape the confines of their habitat - as a safeguard, they are also each fitted with internal tracking chips constantly monitored by security on the reserve's borders that would detect an escape instantly. Animals in this section of the park do not breed, though to give the effect that they do many species will be bred off-site, temporarily sterilized, and later introduced with young in tow, which have already been fitted with tracking software to ensure the population is entirely controlled at all times. This system is fairly newly implemented at the park, being initiated following the establishment of an uncontrolled wild population of first generation Yi qi into the wild. Before this many park animals would breed freely in situ, a situation that eventually resulted in overpopulation of smaller dinosaurs. Efforts have been made to capture and sterilize all free-roaming animals, which were considered to be a success when no unrecorded young were noted to appear in the park for multiple seasons, but life is tenacious and always finds a way. Three years after the completion of sterilization procedures on animals in the reserve, six newly hatched Ornithomimus which were not recorded in park records were spotted one morning at a feeding station with several dozen adults. Efforts have been made to locate the fertile adults responsible for the mating and not one but two males were found and sterilized, but no fertile female has yet been collected, and with hundreds of Ornithomimus living across an area of over 100 square miles, finding any specific individual which apparently lacks registration with the tracking system is very difficult. Until she or any other still fertile dinosaurs are identified, the possibility therefore still exists that some animals in the park may be capable of breeding and there subsequently may be far more animals at Eden than it advertises that are still not registered with the tracking system.
Escapes into the enclosure however are completely unrecorded, and occur with great frequency in regards both to native animals and the handful of large introduced animals on Isla Verda. One of the major design elements used to confine animals within the reserve are vertical walls that animals outside the enclosure frequently tumble over - wallabies, having fallen over the walls, are commonly spotted and now breed freely in the exhibit. Though the presence of so many large introduced animals and many plants in the reserve undoubtedly affects the natural ecosystem very significantly many native birds and reptiles still inhabit the enclosed part of the island including finches, magpies, and parrots, the largest of which in all of the Sylvan Islands can be found wild right here within Eden. Known locally as the Schreivogel, meaning "screaming bird" in German, it was named by early German colonists to the Sylvans for the nocturnal calls of the male during nesting time. This hen-sized parrot's closest relatives are the kea and kakapo of New Zealand, and while it can fly, it prefers not to. Like them it is well-adapted to running along the ground, where it feeds mainly on fallen nuts. It is endangered across the archipelago, but no more here than elsewhere, and is supported within the Eden park with supplemental feeding programs and the provision of nesting boxes. Also abundant throughout Eden's reserves is the Sylvan Islands terrestrial barn owl, a specialized and fairly large and lanky species that hunts not only largely by day but entirely on the ground, and the aberrant arboreal mekosuchine Simiasuchus arboreus, a tree-dwelling, warm-blooded crocodillian endemic to the Sylvans. Approximately the size of a common gray squirrel, it is a threatened species that feeds on insects, birds' eggs and small reptiles. While land development on the mainland has threatened the species with extinction, however, on Isla Verda sufficient suitable forest habitat still remains that the population is stable, despite a likely degree of competition for food with the invasive Yi qi.
Eden PaleoZoological Park is both a zoo and a true safari experience, with some of its enclosures being nearly 15 miles in length from one fence to the next and over one hundred square miles in area. In these large reserves almost three thousand captive animals of dozens of species are allowed a great degree of freedom in a naturalistic environment, where they are able to develop and exhibit the behaviors they would have exhibited in the wild. Unlike the smaller exhibits at the center of the park that can be easily viewed on foot, animals on the reserve can only be viewed via safaris, both through cars and buses that drive along the roads that run through the enclosures, via the monorail, or within large off-road enabled safari vehicles. Because of the size of these areas and the large expanses of natural forest and swamp environments they incorporate, it is an exciting challenge to try and spot as many species as one can, because not unlike a safari in the wilds of Africa, you never know what you will spot, or where.
Animals do tend to congregate near watering holes and supplemental feeding stations, however, where visitors are always guaranteed excellent viewing of favorites such as the Columbian mammoth, Parasaurolophus, or Stegosaurus aongside many smaller mammals and dinosaurs such as Synthetoceros and Ornithomimus. Eden's animals are genetically engineered to look their parts, but to allow such a varied display of animals together has required a degree of artistic license on the part of the animal's designers; potentially dangerous large animals are likely a great deal more domesticated in demeanor than their real-life counterparts, both amongst other animals and human caretakers. Often the giants within these mixed displays are also sterile and sexless, without hormones to influence their behavior. Creatures like the Stegosaurus that in nature would never know grass or other modern flora are at Eden also made to be fully able to digest it. Eden aims for an immersive illusion of a natural ecosystem, a goal it has succeeded in producing, but only through many artificial controls and measures.
Furthering the effect, the reserves host both herbivorous and stereotypically predatory animal groups together, though the carnivores included are of types far too small to bother their neighbors significantly. Buitreraptor is included here in an alternate interpretation to the variation exhibited in Wings, not as a fisher but as an insectivore, and here it follows the footsteps of the giants to capture insects and small animals flushed by their movements through the meadow grasses. Yi qi, an accidental introduction, is now feral and breeding on the island and can be spotted occasionally flitting through its forests. At first impression, the small population of cave bears that roam freely within the open areas alongside more typically prey species may be assumed to be predators, but the species is in fact a gentle herbivore without carnivorous tendencies (a natural inclination exaggerated with the bears designed for display here, who have all but lost any remnant carnivorous inclinations from their real-life models and do not harass their neighbors.)
The reserves at Eden are secure from the inside and captive animals released here cannot escape the confines of their habitat - as a safeguard, they are also each fitted with internal tracking chips constantly monitored by security on the reserve's borders that would detect an escape instantly. Animals in this section of the park do not breed, though to give the effect that they do many species will be bred off-site, temporarily sterilized, and later introduced with young in tow, which have already been fitted with tracking software to ensure the population is entirely controlled at all times. This system is fairly newly implemented at the park, being initiated following the establishment of an uncontrolled wild population of first generation Yi qi into the wild. Before this many park animals would breed freely in situ, a situation that eventually resulted in overpopulation of smaller dinosaurs. Efforts have been made to capture and sterilize all free-roaming animals, which were considered to be a success when no unrecorded young were noted to appear in the park for multiple seasons, but life is tenacious and always finds a way. Three years after the completion of sterilization procedures on animals in the reserve, six newly hatched Ornithomimus which were not recorded in park records were spotted one morning at a feeding station with several dozen adults. Efforts have been made to locate the fertile adults responsible for the mating and not one but two males were found and sterilized, but no fertile female has yet been collected, and with hundreds of Ornithomimus living across an area of over 100 square miles, finding any specific individual which apparently lacks registration with the tracking system is very difficult. Until she or any other still fertile dinosaurs are identified, the possibility therefore still exists that some animals in the park may be capable of breeding and there subsequently may be far more animals at Eden than it advertises that are still not registered with the tracking system.
Escapes into the enclosure however are completely unrecorded, and occur with great frequency in regards both to native animals and the handful of large introduced animals on Isla Verda. One of the major design elements used to confine animals within the reserve are vertical walls that animals outside the enclosure frequently tumble over - wallabies, having fallen over the walls, are commonly spotted and now breed freely in the exhibit. Though the presence of so many large introduced animals and many plants in the reserve undoubtedly affects the natural ecosystem very significantly many native birds and reptiles still inhabit the enclosed part of the island including finches, magpies, and parrots, the largest of which in all of the Sylvan Islands can be found wild right here within Eden. Known locally as the Schreivogel, meaning "screaming bird" in German, it was named by early German colonists to the Sylvans for the nocturnal calls of the male during nesting time. This hen-sized parrot's closest relatives are the kea and kakapo of New Zealand, and while it can fly, it prefers not to. Like them it is well-adapted to running along the ground, where it feeds mainly on fallen nuts. It is endangered across the archipelago, but no more here than elsewhere, and is supported within the Eden park with supplemental feeding programs and the provision of nesting boxes. Also abundant throughout Eden's reserves is the Sylvan Islands terrestrial barn owl, a specialized and fairly large and lanky species that hunts not only largely by day but entirely on the ground, and the aberrant arboreal mekosuchine Simiasuchus arboreus, a tree-dwelling, warm-blooded crocodillian endemic to the Sylvans. Approximately the size of a common gray squirrel, it is a threatened species that feeds on insects, birds' eggs and small reptiles. While land development on the mainland has threatened the species with extinction, however, on Isla Verda sufficient suitable forest habitat still remains that the population is stable, despite a likely degree of competition for food with the invasive Yi qi.
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Wait a minute... in one of your earlier deviations about Eden (Wonderland), you said that Stegosaurus had to be kept in sterile, indoor exhibits because of their low tolerance for holocenic flora. Did it merley slip your mind, or is this specimen some kind of upgraded version two Stegosaurus?