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Zoopedia
September 14, 2026 at 01:24 AM
Aligned the group labels with the roster table by merging insects, arachnids and gastropods into a single invertebrate row
The Zoopedia is the in-game reference that documents every animal in Planet Zoo 2. Unusually for an in-game encyclopaedia, Frontier published it on the official website ahead of launch and has been filling it in publicly, one batch of species at a time, since 23 June 2026. It doubles as the game pre-launch animal reveal programme and as the reference players will use in game.
Each entry covers the animal appearance and build, its size and weight by sex, taxonomy down to genus, wild population, conservation status and the threats behind it, its social structure and reproductive behaviour, and a short set of real-world facts. Every page carries a standing note that Planet Zoo 2 is in active development and that the text, images, and statistics in the Zoopedia are not necessarily final.
New species arrive in weekly drops, usually eight at a time, with occasional single additions attached to an Animal Spotlight video. As of 13 September 2026 the Zoopedia lists 102 animals, 96 of them in the base game and 6 bundled with the Deluxe Edition described under Editions and Pre-Orders. Frontier has not revealed the final roster size, so the catalogue is a growing list rather than the complete lineup.
Subscribers to the game mailing list receive an early teaser ahead of each drop.
The database view sorts by name or by reveal date and filters along five axes. The full roster with its filter values is tabulated under Animals and Welfare.
Axis | Values |
|---|---|
Habitat type | Habitat - Terrestrial, Habitat - Flying, Aquarium, Exhibit |
Biome | Desert, Estuarine, Grassland, Lakes and Rivers, Mangrove, Open Sea, Reef, Taiga, Temperate, Tropical, Tundra, Wetlands |
Continent | Africa, Arctic, Asia, Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Indian Ocean, North America, Oceania, Pacific Ocean, South America |
Conservation status | Least concern, Near threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, Critically endangered, plus an unassessed placeholder |
Content pack | Base Game, Deluxe |
The continent axis is a recent relabelling and mixes landmasses with ocean basins, because the aquarium roster needs somewhere to sit. The Arctic was added to it as the roster grew.
Counted from the catalogue on 13 September 2026, the roster breaks down as follows.
Group | Catalogued |
|---|---|
Mammal | 36 |
Ray-finned fish | 23 |
Reptile | 14 |
Bird | 10 |
Invertebrate | 8 |
Amphibian | 7 |
Shark or ray | 4 |
Housing | Species That Can Use It |
|---|---|
Terrestrial habitat | 42 |
Exhibit | 35 |
Aquarium | 28 |
Aviary | 9 |
Some species can be kept in more than one kind of enclosure, so the housing figures add up to more than the roster total.
Conservation Status | Species |
|---|---|
Least concern | 53 |
Near threatened | 5 |
Vulnerable | 12 |
Endangered | 18 |
Critically endangered | 11 |
Not evaluated | 3 |
Alongside the written entry, the Zoopedia carries a structured record for every animal. It names the class, order, family, and genus, the biomes and continents the species belongs to, which enclosure types it can live in, whether it shoals, whether it has a habitat camera, and the barrier specification a habitat needs in order to hold it. Those barrier values are collected under Habitat Requirements.
Because the Zoopedia is being written in public while the game is still in development, individual fields can disagree with each other. The index card for a species and its detail page are separate surfaces, and where they conflict the detail page carries the corrected value. Treat the detail page as the authority for taxonomy and statistics.
Three catalogued species carry a habitat camera flag in the Zoopedia data: the African Penguin, the Sumatran Tiger, and the White-Tailed Sea-Eagle. Frontier has not published how habitat cameras work in game beyond their presence in the animal data.
