When I played the Mysterious Panda Campaign, here was my strategy to get a five star zoo:
1. Adopt the most expensive animals available.
2. Use natural walls as fenicng. (e.g. Dig a big ol' pit and add fencing where your guests are to view your animals and so your guests don't fall in!)
3. Adopt ostriches, and kangaroos, they breed like crazy! (And you can either release them to the wild for zoo fame or put them up for adoption for money!)
4. When building an exhibit for, oh lets say... a musk ox. Then you'll say, "Ok, there will be 3 musk oxen in this exhibit." So whenever you have a baby/babies, wait for them to grow up, once you do. Release one of your musk ox into the wild so you have three musk ox again and to raise zoo fame! (For example, say you have one baby male musk ox, when it grows up, release your oldest male musk ox into the wild! You can't loose zoo fame you gain by releasing animals into the wild!)
5. Place plenty of food and drink stands, bathrooms, ATMs, gift shops near popular exhibits, and dessert carts. (Don't forget trash cans and picnic tables and gazebos, arches, fountains, etc.)
6. Here is a list of popular animals:
>Grizzly Bear
>American Beaver
>Okapi (A must have! Only $5,500!)
>Chimpanzee
>Mountain Gorilla
>Polar Bear
>Snow Leopard
> African Elephant
>Red Panda
>Giant Panda
If you forget these animals, click on the gift shop and view the gifts it has, you'll see all of these animals there!
7. Build a compost in a deserted area in you zoo. It's a big money maker!
8. Zoo fame is based on:
Guest Happiness
Animal Happiness
Educational Habitats
Entertaining Animals
Number of Species
Number of Animals Total
Releases into the Wild (You can't lose zoo fame you gain from this!)
Goals Completed (Beating challenges n' stuff, more of something you'd do in a challenge game, can't lose zoo fame you gain from this!)
9. Exhibits housing mutiple animals (e.g. Savannah exhibit with common zebras, Thomson's gazelles, African elephants, reticulated giraffes, black rhinoceroses, and ostriches.) These type of exhibits will make them more educational, or entertaining or something like that.
Sorry for having such a LOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNGGGG post, but I just wanted to help!
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(P.S. My Sandbox zoo is a five star zoo, I only have 8 different species but that's because they are the eight animals I listed on tip # 6.!)