Zelda thought

[Jirohnagi]

Okay so i gotta know how come we don't see certain animals? SS does have a large amount of birds and magically sentient plants but how is it we don't see camels in the Lanaryu desert or gerudo desert? why do we not see dolphins or fish? (granted TP did gives fish in lakes), in short why is it for such a large world why do we see almost no biodiversity above insects?

 

[Soul]

Maybe these just don't exist in the world Zelda is set in?

From a developer's standpoint, it makes sense not to have camels simply because the developers didn't intend to do anything involving them, and programming them in just as eyecandy, while certainly possible, wasn't really needed, now was it?

 

[Jirohnagi]

Maybe these just don't exist in the world Zelda is set in?

From a developer's standpoint, it makes sense not to have camels simply because the developers didn't intend to do anything involving them, and programming them in just as eyecandy, while certainly possible, wasn't really needed, now was it?

Many of those surface birds we see are not needed, nor the masses of insects, nor the weird amount of tumbleweed in SS, in the others we see literally no wildlife, OOT and MM are the worst for this, big open areas with no wild life at all, the only "wild" life we ever see are the horses on the ranch.

 

[Dio]

Because the makers of Zelda didn't think to include them. Simple as that.

 

[Soul]

Well the Tumbleweed does serve a purpose, and my point still stands because birds (which also serve a purpose, actually) are way easier to animate than camels.

 

[Seth]

And not every desert has camels in it :coolhecks:

 

[VikzeLink]

Those little birds also plays a small part in a cutscene if I remember correctly, and you can catch them for feathers right?

 

[(◕‿◕✿)]

they were all removed as part of a giant peer review conspiracy, you can see confirmation of this in ganondorf's subtle facial cues in hyrule castle in ocarina of time.

 

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

They are probably too lazy to add biodiversity.

 

[the8thark]

Okay so i gotta know how come we don't see certain animals? SS does have a large amount of birds and magically sentient plants but how is it we don't see camels in the Lanaryu desert or gerudo desert? why do we not see dolphins or fish? (granted TP did gives fish in lakes), in short why is it for such a large world why do we see almost no biodiversity above insects?

Lore reasoning - This is Hyrule and not Earth. Different creatures live there.
Developer reasoning - It's just eye candy. They would prever to have a smoother game play experience over unnecessary background objects and unuseful sprites/3D objects.

 

[AncientPoe]

I would just have to say Development Resources and time, really. And really that makes sense, Zelda games already take a year or two extra to get out to us, so...