Planet Zoo 2 animal requirements: habitat size for all 136 species

Worked examples

The same arithmetic for six common plans. Land is the figure for one animal plus the extra-animal figure for each animal after the first.

What the numbers show

Which animals can share a habitat

Each Zoopedia page lists "thriving" and "neutral" partners. Two groups stand out. In the savannah, 12 species each list 13 thriving partners: Black Wildebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Cape Buffalo, Common Warthog, Gemsbok, Masai Giraffe, Nyala, Plains Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, Sable Antelope, Springbok and Thomson's Gazelle. Their lists also name the Common Ostrich and White-Backed Vulture, which list the same animals as neutral rather than thriving. In aquariums, 4 reef species list 11 thriving partners: Humphead Wrasse, Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark, Javanese Cownose Ray and Ocellated Eagle Ray. Most other aquarium fish list a dozen neutral partners and no thriving ones.

On land, the largest neutral community is Asian forest: Asian Small-Clawed Otter, Great Hornbill, Javan Green Magpie, Long-Tailed Parakeet, Malayan Tapir, North Sulawesi Babirusa, Siamang and Sumatran Orangutan each list the other seven and the Wild Boar as neutral. Smaller pairings:

How to read the numbers

Where they come from. Every figure is the one Frontier prints on that species' page of the Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia, read on 20 October 2026. No figure is estimated or averaged, and we copy no Frontier text or images. A change in a game patch can make a figure here stale until we read the pages again.

What "for one animal" means. The Zoopedia habitat builder opens with one adult in the plan and adds the extra-animal figure for each animal you add. That is why a Lion reads 810 m² on its page even though Frontier prefers lions in groups of 2 to 30. The calculator starts at four animals so the first result already includes extras.

Group sizes. The group column is the Zoopedia's preferred group range, not a hard cap. Some species also limit males or females in a mixed group; the calculator shows those limits.

The climb-proof flag. It is in the data Frontier's site loads for each species page, next to barrier grade and height, but the page does not display it. We show it as Frontier's data has it. Treat it as a prompt to check that species in the game, not as a tested rule.

What is not here. Terrain mixes, enrichment, diet and breeding data sit on each Zoopedia page and are not repeated. For the full animal list with biome, region and Planet Zoo 1 comparison, see the Planet Zoo 2 animal list. For which PC runs the game, see the system requirements.

Common questions

How big does a lion habitat need to be in Planet Zoo 2?

Frontier's Zoopedia lists a minimum of 810 m² of land for one adult Lion, 110 m² for each extra lion and 10 m² of shelter per animal. The Zoopedia's preferred group is 2 to 30, so a pair needs 920 m² of land and 20 m² of shelter. The barrier must be grade 3 and at least 3 m high, and the comfortable temperature is 14 to 41 °C.

How do I work out the space for more than one animal?

Land, flight, climbable and water areas follow one rule: the figure for one animal plus the extra-animal figure for each animal after the first. Shelter is the per-animal figure times the number of animals. Four lions need 1,140 m² of land (810 + 3 × 110) and 40 m² of shelter. This is the arithmetic Frontier's Zoopedia habitat builder uses; the calculator on this page repeats it.

What do the barrier grade and height mean?

The Zoopedia lists each species' barrier as a strength grade and a minimum height in metres, and we print both exactly as listed. Across the 57 habitat species there are 5 at grade 1, 32 at grade 2, 14 at grade 3 and 6 at grade 4. The Zoopedia page does not name the barrier pieces that meet each grade, so confirm the strength of the piece you build in the game.

Which animals are flagged climb-proof?

The data behind Frontier's Zoopedia flags 18 species as climb-proof: African Leopard, Binturong, Eurasian Brown Bear, Eurasian Lynx, Giant Panda, Golden Lion Tamarin, Goodfellow's Tree-Kangaroo, Grizzly Bear, Lion, Ring-Tailed Lemur, Siamang, Snow Leopard, Sumatran Orangutan, Sumatran Tiger, Sun Bear, Sunda Pangolin, Western Chimpanzee and Western Lowland Gorilla. The species page does not print this flag, so we show it as the data has it and cannot say from the Zoopedia alone what it changes in the game.

Which Planet Zoo 2 animals can live together?

Frontier's Zoopedia lists "thriving" and "neutral" partners for each species. The widest thriving group is the savannah: 12 species each list 13 thriving partners. In the aquarium, 4 reef species list 11. The mixed-species section above gives the lists.

Where do these numbers come from?

From the species pages of Frontier's Zoopedia on planetzoogame.com, read on 20 October 2026. We have not checked every value in the game client, and Frontier can change numbers in a patch, so the in-game habitat builder has the last word.