Planet Zoo 2 Long-Eared Owl — habitat, biome, size & which animals it can live with

Long-Eared Owl is one of the 130 Planet Zoo 2 launch species. It is housed in a Aviary habitat, accepts the Savannah / Taiga / Temperate / Wetlands biome, carries a Grade 2 · 1m barrier requirement and is listed at 0.89 m (legspan). It shares a biome and an enclosure type with 8 other species, but the official species data rules out every one of those pairings, so it needs a habitat of its own.

Long-Eared Owl

Every figure on this page comes from the official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia export rather than trailer footage: biome, enclosure type, barrier grade, size and the compatibility verdicts are all taken from the game's own data.

Size (M)0.89 m

Weight (M)—

BarrierGrade 2

EnclosureAviary

BiomesSavannah / Taiga / Temperate / Wetlands

StatusLeast Concern

Where it lives in the wild
Africa · Asia · Europe · North America

Long-Eared Owl at a glance

Source: official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia export (130 species). Also on the searchable animal list.

Enclosure and barrier requirements

Long-Eared Owl needs a Aviary enclosure and accepts the Savannah / Taiga / Temperate / Wetlands biomes. The barrier requirement is Grade 2 · 1m, and that is the number to check before building: a Grade 4 animal behind a Grade 1 wall is the most common way a first zoo stalls.

Which animals can live with the Long-Eared Owl?

Long-Eared Owl shares a biome and an enclosure type with 8 other species, but every one of those pairings is ruled out by the official data, because one side of each pair is officially solitary.

Same biome, but not compatible

8 of the species that accept the Savannah / Taiga / Temperate / Wetlands biome cannot share an enclosure with the Long-Eared Owl, because one side of the pair is officially solitary. These are the pairings people ask about most, so they are spelled out rather than left as an unexplained gap.

Species	Biome	Enclosure	Why not
Eurasian Bittern	TemperateWetlands	Aviary	Eurasian Bittern is solitary “Eurasian bitterns are solitary birds, although will tolerate other individuals outside of the mating season. Unlike many bird species, they…”
Golden Eagle Deluxe	DesertSavannahTaigaTemperateTundra	Aviary	Golden Eagle is solitary “Golden eagles are generally solitary or live in pairs, and most of their interactions are limited to mating and raising young. Adults strong…”
Greater Flamingo	EstuarineTemperateWetlands	Aviary	Long-Eared Owl is solitary “For most of the breeding season, long-eared owls are territorial and solitary, with pairs viciously defending their nesting areas from other owls.”
Secretarybird	Savannah	Aviary	Long-Eared Owl is solitary “For most of the breeding season, long-eared owls are territorial and solitary, with pairs viciously defending their nesting areas from other owls.”
Shoebill	Wetlands	Aviary	Long-Eared Owl is solitary “For most of the breeding season, long-eared owls are territorial and solitary, with pairs viciously defending their nesting areas from other owls.”
Toco Toucan	RainforestSavannahWetlands	Aviary	Long-Eared Owl is solitary “For most of the breeding season, long-eared owls are territorial and solitary, with pairs viciously defending their nesting areas from other owls.”
White-Backed Vulture	DesertSavannah	Aviary	Long-Eared Owl is solitary “For most of the breeding season, long-eared owls are territorial and solitary, with pairs viciously defending their nesting areas from other owls.”
White-Tailed Sea-Eagle	TaigaTemperateTundraWetlands	Aviary	Long-Eared Owl is solitary “For most of the breeding season, long-eared owls are territorial and solitary, with pairs viciously defending their nesting areas from other owls.”

Close, but ruled out by enclosure type

62 species share at least one biome with the Long-Eared Owl but use a different enclosure type — a land habitat against an aquarium or a flying aviary — so they cannot be mixed however well the biomes line up.

Aardvark, African Leopard, African Penguin, African Savannah Elephant, African Wild Dog, American Bullfrog, Asian Elephant, Bactrian Camel, Black Wildebeest, Blue Wildebeest, Boa Constrictor, Cape Buffalo, Cloudless Sulphur, Common Bluetongue, Common Hippopotamus, Common Ostrich, Common Warthog, Danube Crested Newt, Diamondback Terrapin, Eastern Brown Snake, Eurasian Beaver, Eurasian Brown Bear, Eurasian Lynx, European Bison, European Peacock, Fire Salamander, Gemsbok, Gharial, Giant Panda, Giant Tiger Land Snail, Goliath Beetle, Grey Wolf, Grizzly Bear, Komodo Dragon, Lion, Malayan Tapir, Masai Giraffe, Meerkat, Menelaus Blue Morpho, Mexican Redknee

Behaviour, size and weight

Long-Eared Owl is classed as Solitary in Frontier's Social & Reproduction notes: “For most of the breeding season, long-eared owls are territorial and solitary, with pairs viciously defending their nesting areas from other owls. However, outside of the breeding period, th…” On size the game lists 0.89 m (legspan) for the male and 0.95 m for the female. Size and weight together decide the minimum habitat footprint, so use the female figure when you are sizing a breeding pair rather than a display animal.

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