Not my proudest work on park design but tulipahan tehtyä

Finally! "New fastest time" is for this particular challenge, looks like it took me literally twice as long to complete this as Isla Nublar. Matanceros is actually the first island I tried on Jurassic difficulty, and after like ten failures in a row, I pretty much ragequit the Jurassic challenges altogether until a bit later I tried Sorna and it was surprisingly doable. I made the nightmare map I had a lot of fun with on Matanceros specifically to give myself a positive association with the island again, lol. The buildable area is smaller than Nublar or Sorna, and I think that at least is a factor in why this one was so tough.

Anyway, the Cerato skin is lovely. More highlights:

The ugliest Spinosaurus enclosure I've ever made. She just has enough of everything.

Maybe we shouldn't have put the steak restaurant that close to the Acro enclosure.

Really? You people want your dinos bigger, louder, more teeth, and most importantly more expensive for that 5 star rating, but you're happy to stay in a hotel that's on fire?

Well, that would probably at least make a nicer-looking hybrid than the other Diplo one we have available is. Carry on.

Majungasaurus smiling for a picture. (This is actually from the Nublar challenge, but I seem to have forgotten to include it in a post before?)

Dual feeding for dual chicks

Two floofs at Southwest Florida Bald Eagle nest. Older chick E21 on the left, E22 on the right/front hatched yesterday (January 7th).

Mom Harriet feeding E21 on the left, while dad M15 feeds E22.

First of the eaglet season

New hatchling being fed at Southwest Florida Bald Eagle nest. E21 hatched two days ago, and younger sibling E22 is currently working on breaking out of its egg.
 

Merciless beasts, and also dinosaurs

I got a contract to sell an Acrocanthosaurus, which I'd never made before, and when I got around to incubating her, I'd forgotten that the edits I'd made to the genome with that goal in mind didn't include any comfort genes, and decided to keep her for a while after all. And so I ended up with a dino I needed to quickly tranquilize for every storm before her comfort drained, or she'd start headbutting fences I didn't have room to build extra layers of around her enclosure. It was worth it, though, because her presence brought in so much guest money, and I finally sold her when she got old.

How I found out I'd forgotten about the comfort genes, lol. Nice of the delicious humans to line up and run to her.

The Acro patterns are really pretty! Especially vivid, jungle, and wetland. (The other Acro I made with the aforementioned guest money did have the necessary comfort genes, and just sat there wondering why some loud flying thing shows up to chase her friend around every time the weather gets a little windy.)

The Ceratrollsaurus next door are not as impressed by the Acros' beauty, and simply fart in their general direction.

I hadn't taken a closer look at the buildings damaged by storms before. This restaurant has suffered such a small amount of damage I don't get an alert about it, and only notice when I have a ranger team selected because doing those minor repairs shows up as a potential task. There's a fire in there! That's not worth an alert?

97 guests are still eating and bothering the poor lone staff member at this fast food restaurant that has smoke and flames coming off a hole in the roof. Actually, that does sound pretty realistic for a customer service job.

Stem-birds by any other name

[Spoilers for the Jurassic Park novel, and JP1-3, JW, and JWFK movies - none for Dominion because I still haven't watched it, and if any of this post contradicts its events, please don't tell me in too much detail]

The last I checked the JP fandom wiki refers to the T. rex family from TLW as "buck" (the adult male), "doe" (the adult female), and "fawn" (the juvenile) on the animals' pages. Things written on fan-maintained wikis aren't automatically canon, of course, and it is also mentioned on the wiki itself that this isn't necessarily official terminology, but I find interesting where this terminology came from, and what the things some of the characters in-universe call the animals says about how they see them.

Blurry sparkle

First one without either of them in 19 years

I miss my girls.