Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia: Every Animal Explained

What a Zoopedia entry tells you

Every animal on Frontier's online Zoopedia has its own page with the same sections:

• Overview: a description of the real species, its size and its scientific name.
• Found in: the continents or oceans where it lives in the wild.
• Class, order, family and genus: where it sits in the animal kingdom.
• Conservation status: its IUCN category, an estimate of the wild population and what threatens it.
• Social and reproduction: how it lives in groups, how it breeds and how long the young stay with their parents.
• Animal facts: a few short facts about the species.

The list page adds the game side: filters for habitat type, biome, continent, conservation status and content pack (base game or Deluxe Edition). Frontier notes that the Zoopedia is a work in progress, so text and details can still change. Our Planet Zoo 2 animal list puts all of those filters on one page.

The four habitat types

• Terrestrial habitat: 54 animals
• Flying habitat (aviary): 12 animals
• Aquarium: 34 animals
• Exhibit: 45 animals

A few fish are listed for both an aquarium and an exhibit, so the four numbers add up to more than 130. Flying habitats and aquariums are new: Frontier calls Planet Zoo 2 the first game in the series with birds and fully aquatic animals.

The twelve biomes

Each entry names one or more biomes. In Zoopedia order: Desert (16), Estuarine (13), Grassland (45), Lakes and Rivers (15), Mangrove (9), Open Sea (13), Reef (22), Taiga (14), Temperate (26), Tropical (38), Tundra (9) and Wetlands (25). The Planet Zoo 2 biomes page lists the animals of each one and finds the biomes several animals share.

Continents and oceans

Each entry names the continents or oceans the species lives in. The Planet Zoo 2 animals by continent page lists every animal of each one, for planning a themed zoo.

Classes in the Zoopedia

The 130 animals belong to eleven classes: 48 mammals (Mammalia), 28 ray-finned fishs (Actinopterygii), 14 birds (Aves), 14 reptiles (Reptilia), 9 insects (Insecta), 8 amphibians (Amphibia), 4 shark or rays (Chondrichthyes), 2 arachnids (Arachnida), 1 centipede (Chilopoda), 1 snail (Gastropoda) and 1 jellyfish (Scyphozoa).

Conservation status

52 animals are listed as threatened in the wild (critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable). In the game, releasing animals back into the wild happens in Wildlife Reserves. The full count by status:

Deluxe Edition animals

The Zoopedia marks six animals with the Deluxe content pack: the Axolotl, Blue and Gold Fusilier, Golden Eagle, Golden Lion Tamarin, Great Hammerhead and Longfin Batfish. They only come with the Deluxe Edition; the Deluxe Edition animals page compares the two editions.

Animals still to come

Frontier's Final Zoopedia Reveals post lists the last species to join the Zoopedia before launch. The Asian Small-clawed Otter, Black Rhino, Javanese Cownose Ray and Binturong have been named but were not on the online Zoopedia on October 11, 2026. We add each one as soon as Frontier publishes its entry. Which animals came in each weekly Zoopedia update since June is on the Planet Zoo 2 updates page.