Author Topic: Herding Behavior (Read 15407 times)

lemurboy · « **on:** May 23, 2006, 03:32:02 PM »

I was wondering if anyone could tell me which animals they have seen exhibiting herding behavior.

Is it only the AA animals or do others herd as well?

I have yet to see it even after playing the game for a couple of days.

lilpuppie_b-wizzie · « **Reply #1 on:** May 23, 2006, 04:09:32 PM »

the reticulated giraffe,markhor,ibex,moose,caribou,and alot of the other herbivores

mintralcat · « **Reply #2 on:** May 23, 2006, 04:10:23 PM »

i havent seen any herds either

Tiger88 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 23, 2006, 04:35:54 PM »

Okay now the African buffalos herd PERFECTLY. it is so cool the lead male calls on the almost all of the rest and they all go with him and it says on their caption "moving as herd":IloveZA: http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h263/coopcog88/?action=view¤t=pic1.jpg

lemurboy · « **Reply #4 on:** May 23, 2006, 04:42:44 PM »

so do they only "Move as a herd" once in a while when a leader calls them?

I was assuming that they would stick together most of the time...and this is what "herding meant"

mintralcat · « **Reply #5 on:** May 23, 2006, 04:47:24 PM »

thats what i thought lemurboy, i like the picture and how far/long do they move as a herd

Tiger88 · « **Reply #6 on:** May 23, 2006, 05:29:43 PM »

Well sometimes they will travel a really long ways. and sometimes they just go about 20 feet i would guess, but it takes a lot of patience because they dont just do it right away:happy:

mintralcat · « **Reply #7 on:** May 23, 2006, 05:31:29 PM »

thats cool i had a ton of wildabeest and they never did anything

conservationkid · « **Reply #8 on:** May 23, 2006, 06:08:42 PM »

yep yep, i think that the buffalo do it best, the wildebeest stampede sometimes too, now that is really cool to watch!

off topic: tiger88 i love ur sig, im obsessed with horses too, and im a guy, yay! lol

lemurboy · « **Reply #9 on:** May 23, 2006, 11:45:31 PM »

I am trying a large size map safari type zoo...with the animals pretty much running free...trying to see if the same species will stick together (herding).

So far...aardvarks stay together as long they are around insects...and so do meerkats...though the occasional one likes to wander WAY off!

As far as i can tell so far, the giraffes are staying close although they have split into two groups that stay pretty far away from eachother.

Wildebeasts do not stay together at all in this situation....don't know what is going on there...

Water buffalo sometimes stick together....although not as much as a lot of people are saying.

i'll keep observing.....

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #10 on:** May 23, 2006, 11:52:49 PM »

I have noticed, when I was doing an experiment for the ES Animal Attractiveness thread, that the Scimitar Horned Oryx often quickly group, walk in a line for a bit then go their seperate ways. By the way lemurboy, are you using zebra?? I would like to know if they group together a lot. :IloveZA:

lemurboy · « **Reply #11 on:** May 24, 2006, 10:38:24 PM »

From what I have seen so far...zebras are only average at sticking together. There are a few isolated groups of 3 or 4 together, but these groups are scattered all over the place.

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 24, 2006, 11:52:17 PM »

I am doing a science project and was doing a part about zebras. The page (from Wikipedia, not too reliable but most of it's true) said that zebras go their seperate ways in the day then group together later.

TurtleStork · « **Reply #13 on:** May 25, 2006, 03:45:26 AM »

Yeah, The meerkats stay together once you have a few generations born. Mine had reproduced so much that i had to make them a new exhibit before the zoo even opened. I made a long tunnel to herd them there. I decided the fastest way was to add a lion to the mix. I did, but all the meerkats that were ahead came back to help. also, when one found food, they all follwed. One was alone, but i guess you can't help that.

By the way Tiger88 I Think horses rule Too, and i'm a guy!

BottleNoseDolphin1 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 25, 2006, 06:06:48 AM »

That's odd because i have only up to ES and when an american bision was born in my zoo it's caption was "Staying together as a herd" i dont get that.

DingoMutt · « **Reply #15 on:** May 25, 2006, 06:19:34 AM »

Yeah. In ES I had a male and 3 female African Elephants.I was watching them, it said for the male "calling to herd", then "moving as herd" but only 1 of the gals followed.

CoolKid · « **Reply #16 on:** May 25, 2006, 06:31:28 AM »

my perwolskis(spelling)horses herded alot.about 10 or 11 to a group

csleesburg · « **Reply #17 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:05:50 AM »

Well, kind of like that, I noticed that my grizzly bear cub said "learning to hunt from grizzly bear 2", but his mother (grizzly bear 2) was nowhere around, and her box said "going to poop". ???

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:18:11 AM »

Is that with AA or before AA csleesburg?? What other behaviours are there??

csleesburg · « **Reply #19 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:20:09 AM »

It's with AA. I never saw that before. It's the only one I've noticed so far.

zookeeper601 · « **Reply #20 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:23:20 AM »

What does it look like when herding and learning happens properly??

Shenzu Shikiru · « **Reply #21 on:** May 25, 2006, 08:26:37 AM »

I have no XPs yet(I'm wating for the big pack at the end), but I have noticed that the Tomsons(SC) Gazelle stick together for the most part...

Peacenote · « **Reply #22 on:** May 25, 2006, 09:36:21 AM »

Yes I was fairly certain that "moving with herd" was an action that happened in ES. I was wondering if anyone has noticed anything else the animals do as a herd that they didn't before. Or do you think it's just that the behavior was improved?

Hughesy · « **Reply #23 on:** May 26, 2006, 10:01:29 AM »

cleesburg that learning to hunt came with es because i do not have aa (yet) and my florida panthers and lion cub learn to hun all the time i sit and watch them do it sad i know lol:IloveZA:

rightEyElash · « **Reply #24 on:** May 26, 2006, 02:00:26 PM »

I haven't noticed too much actual herding behavior. The only times the animal seem to walk together is when I place food in the exhibit for the first time.

I have noticed that they do seem to stay together when they stand under the shade of a tree. But that is about it.

I have tried putting multiple species in a large exhibit in hopes that each animal will stay together with its species but so far they all just seem to go where ever they want. At most maybe 2 of each species will walk together, usually a male and female.

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