Archer's nightmare
May-July, Year FiveWe could start building, but I'll wait until we've agreed on a plan before changing things. For now, we'll keep accumulating money.
Aside from a donation income about $1,000 below average, May was a pretty good example of our finances without construction.
We make a lot of money, it's just heavily offset by our massive upkeep and salary costs. I avoid hiring any more keepers by doing as much of the work myself as possible, but it's a bit difficult to keep up. I did notice when reviewing our finances that we have an excess of educators on the staff that aren't pulling their weight, so we'll fire those. That should save us about $1,000 a month. Our "Recycling" income mostly comes from selling poop as compost and the $250 apiece balloon bouquets we receive every time an endangered animal breeds. Although requiring a lot of attention and cage-cleaning, our Cuban crocodiles are a major source for both.
Given that we need money, what better option is there than gambling?
It didn't work out for us, but one of our guests had the best day at the zoo of their life.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like our swamp exhibit's collection is working out. We have a confirmed kill of an African buffalo by a Protarchaeopteryx. I feel like it's worth mentioning that Protarchaeopteryx is only supposed to be turkey-sized.
We released the dinosaurs into the wild to protect our buffaloes. One could call this a natural disaster in the making, but I'm sure Florida can handle it.
The Endangered Animals Alliance offered us a free animal in exchange for proof that we had at least three different endangered species in the park. Once we had provided pictures of our gharials, sea otters, and Cuban crocodiles, they gave us a Spanish lynx. We moved her into the former vampire beast/peafowl exhibit. We can always make another exhibit if we get around to having vampire beasts again, and this one is well suited to the lynx.
Completing that challenge unlocked one of the rare persistent awards. Endangered species-themed buildings and objects have now been permanently unlocked, even if we start a new zoo.
(I just want to say that the tuna you can see there isn't a real animal that we can use for exhibits. It's a treat to give to bigger fish.)
Our T. rex and unicorn populations were down to single individuals, so we created and bought more.
A feature I like, but hadn't got around to mentioning before is that certain birds can be seen flying up and perching in trees. Monkeys also climb trees, but neither uses this ability to escape their exhibits.
A problem has emerged with providing enough food and drinking water to keep up with the enormous appetite of the Cuban crocodile swarm.
You'd think the water part would be easy, but the crocodiles seem a bit finicky about what water they're willing to drink. Given that we seem to be running up on an actual overpopulation problem in that exhibit, we reduced the numbers a bit by giving up all the angry ones for adoption.
We still have plenty.
One of our mastodons developed pink elephant disease. It was caused by their pursuit ball and cured with a sample of cotton candy. Anyway, the research effort earned us $4,798.
That money helped us buy a pair of small Chinese alligators, getting us both species of alligator and completing the current version of the swamp tour. We could add more later, but we'll need more exhibits to do so. Maybe we could expand the tour into the northeast empty section.
Sunset by the jellyfish.
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