the zoo is looking way bigger than we thought, and the seaquarium is basically 1:1

Spent way too long staring at the map today and I think the zoo is way bigger than anyone figured. The C-shaped pool in the top left matches Zoo Miami almost exactly. The pond on the right lines up with the swan pond, and they clearly dropped the big pedal boat lake because it would've been overkill. I originally thought that smaller cluster of trails in the bottom right was the zoo, but now I'm leaning toward it being a butterfly or botanical garden thing, with the parking lot sitting right at the zoo's south entrance.

For scale, the zoomed out map makes it obvious. This zoo is nearly as big as the game's large lake. That's a full destination. And the Miami Seaquarium recreation is almost one to one. They copied the layout, straight up.

So here's where my head goes with gameplay:

• The Extended Look had that aquarium van with "We freed McKenzie from the Ocean" and an orca on the side. That's clearly a Lolita reference, the real orca that died from neglect at the Seaquarium. I'm convinced there's a Free Willy style mission coming, maybe airlifting the orca out to the ocean as a set piece. Rockstar loves that kind of over the top rescue.
• With a zoo this big, plus the era this game was developed in, I'd be shocked if there isn't some Tiger King influence. Steal a tiger from the zoo for a Joe Exotic type? That feels like a mission Rockstar would absolutely write. Maybe not main story, but a stranger mission or side chain.

I'm not saying any of this is confirmed, but the map evidence is pretty strong. A zoo that size has to have actual content. Rockstar wouldn't build all that just so you can walk past some cages.

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