Planet Zoo 2 Animal List: Every Species Frontier Has Revealed

How many animals are in Planet Zoo 2?

Frontier’s launch post on October 13 says the game features over 130 animals. Frontier’s Steam posts and the Steam store page name 110 species, all listed below. That isn’t the whole roster: the first Steam post in this list, on July 14, was already adding more animals to an existing Zoopedia, and on October 6 Frontier said the final reveals would come on its website. For the complete roster, use the official Zoopedia, which Frontier says covers every animal and how to care for it.

Which animals were revealed in the Zoopedia updates?

Frontier added animals to its online Zoopedia in weekly drops from July to October. These 96 species come from those posts:

Zoopedia update	Species added
July 14 (7)	Aardvark, Blunthead cichlid, Masai giraffe, Giant Malaysian leaf insect, Gemsbok, Fire salamander, Ocean sunfish
July 22 (9)	Schooling bannerfish, Boa constrictor, African tigerfish, Blacktip reef shark, Gharial, Spotted eagle ray, Gila monster, Red lionfish, Springbok
July 28 (7)	Golden trevally, Diamondback terrapin, Blackspotted puffer, Reticulated giraffe, Clown loach, American bullfrog, Pacific sardine
August 4 (10)	Toco toucan, Grey wolf, Indo-Pacific sergeant, Cape buffalo, Giant slippery frog, Thomson’s gazelle, Sri Lankan rose, Dolphinfish, Long-eared owl, Meerkat
August 11 (7)	Yellow tang, White-tailed sea-eagle, Western diamondback rattlesnake, Spotted hyena, Old world swallowtail, Great hornbill, Eurasian lynx
August 18 (8)	Western lowland gorilla, Palette surgeonfish, Mexican redknee, Galapagos giant tortoise, Mountain hare, Eastern brown snake, Boeseman’s rainbowfish, Malayan tapir
August 25 (8)	Sailfin snapper, Eurasian beaver, Cloudless sulphur, Sunda pangolin, Giant tiger land snail, Clown triggerfish, Black wildebeest, Nile monitor
September 1 (8)	Pacific bluefin tuna, Desert horned viper, Sable antelope, Eurasian bittern, Komodo dragon, Yellow anaconda, Ring-tailed lemur, Bluespine unicornfish
September 8 (6)	Nyala, Menelaus blue morpho, Przewalski’s horse, Lehmann’s poison frog, White-backed vulture, Common rudd
September 15 (8)	Giant panda, Goliath beetle, Giant grouper, Giant forest scorpion, Common warthog, Indian Ocean oriental sweetlips, Snow leopard, Sun bear
September 22 (6)	Giant gourami, African wild dog, Amazonian giant centipede, Asian elephant, Sacred scarab beetle, Clown anemonefish
September 29 (6)	Monarch, Bactrian camel, Wild boar, Common ostrich, Threespot damselfish, Moon jelly
October 6 (6)	Siamang, Red-eyed tree frog, Javan green magpie, Grizzly bear, Greater flamingo, North Sulawesi babirusa

A few of these were shown earlier in other posts: the Blacktip reef shark and Red lionfish in the July 21 Feature Focus on aquatics, and the Javan green magpie in a September 14 Keeper Talks video. The Snow leopard and Greater flamingo got their own videos after their Zoopedia reveal.

Which animals were revealed in other posts?

These 14 species never appeared in a Zoopedia drop on Steam but are confirmed in other official posts or on the store page:

Species	First named	Where
African leopard	July 16	Animal Spotlight
Indo-Pacific leopard shark	July 30	Animal Spotlight
Shoebill	August 13	Animal Spotlight, described as a franchise debut
Sumatran orangutan	September 10	Animal Spotlight
Golden poison frog	September 15	Keeper Talks
Western chimpanzee	September 16	Keeper Talks; also named on the store page
West Indian manatee	September 24	Animal Spotlight, described as a franchise debut
Long-tailed parakeet	October 1	Animal Spotlight
Red panda	October 2	Keeper Talks
Javanese cownose ray	October 6	Meet the Javanese Cownose Ray
Lion	-	Steam store page
Hawksbill turtle	-	Steam store page
Secretarybird	-	Steam store page
African penguin	October 16	Update 1.0.5 notes (a bug fix)

Frontier’s September 18 Keeper Talks video featured Chester Zoo’s Sumatran tigers as habitat inspiration, but the post doesn’t say the species is in the game, so it isn’t counted here.

Which animals are aquatic or flying?

Frontier’s posts don’t label the habitat type for most species. The ones they do name:

• Fully aquatic (aquariums): Blacktip reef shark and Red lionfish (Awesome Aquatics Feature Focus), Hawksbill turtle (store page), and the Javanese cownose ray, which Frontier calls an aquatic creature.
• Fully flying birds (aviaries): Toco toucan and Secretarybird (store page).

Are any animals exclusive to pre-orders or DLC?

Frontier repeatedly promoted a Bonus Content Pack for pre-purchases, and update 1.0.5 fixed the Zoopedia wrongly showing DLC animals as locked for DLC owners. None of the posts name which species are in the pack or in DLC.

What hasn’t been announced yet?

• A full species list on Steam: some species, including the final reveals, were announced only on Frontier’s website and other channels.
• Bonus Content Pack and DLC species: not named in the posts.
• Future animals: Frontier says the roster will keep growing after launch, but hasn’t named species or dates.

New to the game? Read the beginner tips, check the latest patch notes, or go back to the game hub.