From the publisher’s rulebook

Who goes first in Savannah Park?

Deep Print / Capstone English US rulebook, eight-page file

Whoever most recently fed an animal chooses the first animal token. All players then move their matching token simultaneously.

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Rule details

The player who chooses the token passes clockwise from round to round.

When playing solo, you choose the animal token each round.

The youngest-player instruction in the children's variant concerns end-of-game scoring, not who starts the game.

Our interpretation

The starting-player criterion selects the first token chooser; it does not give that player a separate placement turn.

If there’s a tie

The cited starting-player instruction does not specify a tie-break. We don’t infer one.

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