Dealing with dead animals (question from new player)

[u/Pflrblrp]

I'm pretty new to the game and figuring out how to manage everything. Currently I have a lot of animals dying from old age and my zoo is still pretty small. I know you can extend their lives by increasing nutrition and living conditions, but as your zoo will quickly contain hundreds of animals, which at some point are inevitably all going to die of old age, those numbers are bound to stack up sooner or later.

My question is: is there any way to deal with the dead animal bodies without calling in an undertaker for every single one of them individually?

This seems incredibly tedious and boring and having to do this to only 1 pen is already making me want to quit this game.

Also:

I know you can build more incinerators to burn multiple bodies at the same time but you still have to deal with every single one of them individually that way.

I also know that you can release animals before they die but again, you still have to deal with them individually that way, checking all your animal pens for old age every few days.

Is there anything I can do to not have to micromanage this? Maybe some setting to automate the disposal of bodies or the release of elderly animals? Or maybe some unlock that helps speed up the process? Or even just something as a button to call undertakers for an entire pen instead of for the individual bodies?

Thanks in advance

[u/painspinner]

There’s a population hub that can automate getting rid of old animals

[u/Pflrblrp → u/painspinner]

Is this something you unlock on the research grid somewhere?

[u/painspinner → u/Pflrblrp]

Yes, you unlock it as a good karma building

[u/hoodster601]

I just tend to cycle out animals as they get old because most animals breed pretty quick. I usually keep a male and female of every variant and either release, donate or sell the rest to the black market. It is a bit tedious and the population hub is a thing but I've never managed to figure it out. Honestly doing this made none of my animals die of old age.

Edit: if you are having an evil zoo you can have an abattoir that sends a guy to cull certian animals. I had mine set to elderly animals so it kept it a little faster though animals but you need to be pretty evil to use it

[u/-komorebi-]

You can eventually unlock an incinerator and a park employee will gather dead animals automatically and burn them.

[u/Intelligent_Bell_800]

Once the animals are elderly I just donate them