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| 08.03.00 Saving the Great Cats                                             |
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Time Limit:

   18 months

Objectives:

   1. Adopt 2 African lions, 2 Bengal tigers, 2 white Bengal tigers, 2
      Siberian tigers, 2 leopards, 2 black leopards, 2 snow leopards, 2
      clouded leopards, 2 cheetahs, and 2 jaguars.
   2. Achieve a suitability rating of at least 85 for all cat exhibits.
   3. Achieve an average animal happiness of 90.

Walkthrough:

You’ll probably have a much more difficult time with this scenario than the 
previous two.  That’s because you have to build a lot of exhibits, you don’t 
get to pick which animals you get to display, and you have to do a fair amount 
of research (not only for some of the cats, but also for shelters and toys).

So start with the basics: bulldoze everything, build a compost heap, and then 
make exhibits for the two crowd favorites, the Bengal tiger and African lion.  
Don’t make the exhibits larger than needed: 70 squares for the tigers and 80 
squares for the lions are enough.  Also, make sure the Bengal tiger exhibit 
achieves a 99+ suitability rating so you can pick up the $15,000 reward money.  
You’re likely going to need all the money you can get in this scenario.

Assuming you have some money left, immediately start working on a second pair 
of exhibits.  If you’ve researched the white Bengal tiger, choose it for one 
of the exhibits (it’s a popular animal just like the regular Bengal tiger); 
otherwise pick two out of the Siberian tiger, the jaguar, and the cheetah.  
(The leopard needs a toy you probably don’t have yet.)  You should receive a 
$15,000 donation when you adopt your third pair of cats, and that should allow 
you to complete both exhibits.

Once February rolls around, hire zookeepers and construct some money buildings 
(restaurant, carousel, animal theater, gift shop).  Then sit around a wait for 
a while.  You need to generate some money, and while admissions to your zoo 
and your money buildings will do their job, life will be much easier if you 
can get your guests to 95 happiness ($25,000) or if your white Bengal tigers 
produce a baby ($10,000).

Of course, you also need to wait for some research.  It’s a bad idea to adopt 
any leopards until you get the cat climbing tree, so you might want to make 
sure that animal enrichment is the only thing you’re researching.  Once you’ve 
researched the cat tree, the snowy rock cave, and the three cats you need, go 
ahead and lower your research spending to $33 or $13 per day.  The other 
topics are less important than the money you’ll save.

Once you’re ready to build again, construct exhibits in roughly this order: 
non-leopards, leopard, black leopard, clouded leopard, snow leopard.  The 
clouded leopard’s exhibit can be difficult to build (until you get the hang of 
it), so it’s best to save it for last.  Other than those last four leopard 
exhibits, you might eventually need a second restaurant, and, if you have 
room, you might also want to add a second carousel and animal theater.  Don’t 
waste money on things like the primate house and the elephant ride.

When you get to the clouded leopard exhibit, save your game.  Give it a snowy 
rock cave, and then give it as many trees (four to a square) and rocks as you 
can.  Finally, start elevating the land using cliff mode.  You can create 
“steps” for the leopards to climb, but mostly just pay attention to the happy 
and unhappy faces that appear when you try moving the land around.  Eventually 
you should break 85 suitability, and at some point after that the leopards 
should be happy with the elevation.

Once you have the ten exhibits you need, all you have to do is let time run 
out, periodically checking to fix trampled terrain and sell off animals to 
prevent overcrowding.