Animals breaking through fences.

[mo_uk]

Have any of you had this happen.  I have now had a wilderbeast break through a large metal mesh fence and an elephant break through a wooden fence.  This was after the game was in its 4th year!

[spiderdraco]

Yes, it happens to me a lot of times.
For example, now i have a pride of lions behind a metal cable fence; well...those cats keep running on the loose! It was funny, because that dread message of ""lion 3 is hungry" appeared over and over again.
So, i almost when berserk when i couldn't find the lion (a cub) in the exhibit; so i used the stats menu and oh, surprise! The little kitty was on the other side of the zoo. It crossed a lot of exhibits, and surprisingly, it didn't got attacked by any of my other animals (hyenas, wolves, tigers, crocs).
Ah, and about the elephant through the wooden fence...that kind of fence isn't supposed to be strong enough to keep an elephant inside, it eventually will break through the wooden fence. But the wildebeest story is completely odd...perhaps is a bug in the game.
Because sometimes, a lot of animals escape from their exhibits in really bizarre ways (for example, i got this beaver, right? and the animal climbed the highest cliff in the map without any problems...perhaps it was spider-beaver. XDDD) or they appear in places far from their exhibit. I don't know if someone has seen those spider-beavers, but i'll see if i can manage to get a photo of them.

[mikaboshi]

Animals for me generally break through only for a reason. You can keep elephants in hedge fences if you want, but if they spot something outside of the enclosure they want, they'll go get it. This includes food, water, shade structures, and other animals.

[spiderdraco]

Yes, good theory...i've never tought about that one.
I've never seen an animal escape, so i don't know if they jump fences (big cats, antelopes, monkeys) or if they just simply past over them (elephants, giraffes, camels...)
If anyone has seen this, please, let me know how they escape!!!
The only thing i've seen escape are the meerkats, you know, they dig like moles and in the next moment they're on the other side of the fence.

[Fennec Nichov]

Sometimes the message "XXX has escaped" pops out but when I check there's nothing wrong.

[Rosinas Cat]

Yep, I get that quite a lot. I also get, 'Animal 1 has been crated'. When I check it out, it has been crated because a guest has got into the exhibit, even though the fences are high enough and sturdy. Just a glitch, I'm thinking.

[fizzfizzyfizz]

Some animals even escape from fences on their recommened list. African wild dogsm for example, can escape from hedge fences.

[Fennec Nichov]

I don't think hedge fences are recommended for them...

[DinoMania]

If you have DD
I'll give you some thing to test; Put Triceratops in a exhibit and make a part of the fence a hedge and as soon as you do that they all start running to it and break thought.
How it works coz on mine it dose!  :dancer:  

[Riss]

I seem to get a lot of glitch breakouts/ins. Whenever I use one of the elevated paths, a guest inevitably ends up in the exhibit. That's what the gaurd rails are for! Sheesh.

[DinoMania]

That some times happens to me  :slol:
You ever get a pothole when you add a elevated path some where and people just get caught. It looks so funny all these people huddle together and trying to get out.

[Fennec Nichov]

Yeah, I sometimes get potholes too and the animals in the exhibit get stuck in there... so annoying!

[DinoMania]

I got annyed once when I was in a Challage mode and it happen and a GAINT panda was caught and i didn't no and it just came up with Gaint Panda 1 has died and a challage screen came up saying you have lost -$60.000 Boy THAT was all my money  :wacko: