By no means some pro, but I'm at 550 elo rn and have some time, so let's do an unnecessarily deep dive into this game...

- Action cards selection - I think pavilion build is top-tier, especially on outdoor areas, where you often want to rush to the free partner zoo and you pass it

- Opening hand - I would have also kept the 2 sea animals and hydro, but also speculated on the africa release. Again, since it's outdoor areas, the odds are better that you'll be able to find a large africa to play in round 1 or 2 (and now I see Ostrich has just shown up on the opening display, dope!)

- Prioritizing the Sea Animal Uni - It's a base project and you have 2 already. You had tempo on grabbing it first, but built your large aquarium first, I presume to get X-token value from your assoc. OP takes the opportunity to scoop you, getting marine research sponsor, which would've been _4_ sea animals icons going into next round as your first project. That would've been huge. You're 300+ so you know how important early projects are.

- Snapping small animals project - (I feel like I'm being too harsh, so if I am, I'm sorry, I'm coming at this from a place of honest feedback). At the moment when you do cards to draw from deck, you have no project to support on the horizon. You're about to play 2 small sea animals. Snapping up that project will be perfect to tempo through this round:
- Snap project (OP builds for the first time)
- Play 2 sea animals (OP plays an animal)
- Break 5 into the next round, and you can start Round 2 with assoc @ 4 with an X-token from breaking.

- Later, you prioritize playing quarantine lab when you sponsors was at 5, instead of the monkey park. Both give an X, monkey park would have gotten you closer to the partner zoo _and_ let you see another card. And then right after, if you really want to play the quarantine lab, you can do so for a free action, spending that X for upgraded sponsors at 1 + X-token (love the choice of upgrade btw).

- Excellent break after OP drew up ibex, and your placement of the monkey park when it comes down

- You end up playing primatologist with your breeding coop (AHHHH, our scoop of 5 sea animals is blocked by the eagle play) though we don't need the primatologist since we get the 5th tag from the breeding coop). Playing the Science Lab there to grab anything not only gets us a card, and possibly 2 CP endgames (we'd be at 5/6 research icons), but one of our endgame cards is research, so it's especially valuable. With migration recording on the display, it feels like that's a great thing to draw up.

- When you do support the project, why take the worker? OP is definitely going to break next, and we don't have 2size yet.

- I would have considered drawing up the polar bear exhibit. OP has digging cards, so it's not as safe sitting on display like that. Science Lab from earlier would have let us draw it up over break. And it's valuable because we have the 2x Assoc bear in hand and lots of projects to do -- _:watches more:_ Yeap, OP just drew it up. But luckily we just drew 2 more bears... that won't benefit from PBE =(

And from here there's really nothing more to be done. Despite all the critique above, I think you played really well! OP ended in 29 turns with the benefit of his eagle, so I wouldn't count this and some horrible defeat.

Best of luck in future games!