Planet Zoo 2 Mountain Hare — habitat, biome, size & which animals it can live with

Mountain Hare is one of the 130 Planet Zoo 2 launch species. It is housed in a Habitat habitat, accepts the Taiga / Temperate / Tundra biome, carries a Grade 1 · 1.25m barrier requirement and is listed at 0.50 m (nosetorump). It shares a biome and an enclosure type with 12 other species, but the official species data rules out every one of those pairings, so it needs a habitat of its own.

Mountain Hare

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)0.50 m

Weight (M)—

BarrierGrade 1

EnclosureHabitat

BiomesTaiga / Temperate / Tundra

StatusLeast Concern

Where it lives in the wild
Arctic · Asia · Europe

Mountain Hare at a glance

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

Enclosure and barrier requirements

Mountain Hare needs a Habitat enclosure and accepts the Taiga / Temperate / Tundra biomes. The barrier requirement is Grade 1 · 1.25m, 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 Mountain Hare?

Mountain Hare shares a biome and an enclosure type with 12 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

12 of the species that accept the Taiga / Temperate / Tundra biome cannot share an enclosure with the Mountain Hare, 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
Bactrian Camel	DesertSavannahTemperate	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Eurasian Beaver	Lakes & RiversTaigaTemperate	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Eurasian Brown Bear	TaigaTemperateTundra	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Eurasian Lynx	TaigaTemperateTundra	Habitat	Eurasian Lynx is solitary “In the wild, lynx are solitary animals and live alone except for mothers with their cubs. However, male and female lynx are known to form strong bonds in captivity.”
European Bison	TaigaTemperate	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Giant Panda	Temperate	Habitat	Giant Panda is solitary “Pandas are solitary creatures but will interact if they come across each other. However, females are more territorial than males and may cha…”
Grey Wolf	DesertRainforestSavannahTaigaTemperateTundra	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Grizzly Bear	TaigaTemperateTundraWetlands	Habitat	Grizzly Bear is solitary “Grizzly bears are solitary, the only exception being a mother with her cubs. They only interact with each other to mate or fight over mates.”
Red Deer	Temperate	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Red Panda	TaigaTemperate	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Snow Leopard	TaigaTundra	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”
Wild Boar	RainforestSavannahTemperateWetlands	Habitat	Mountain Hare is solitary “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.”

Close, but ruled out by enclosure type

14 species share at least one biome with the Mountain Hare 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.

Cloudless Sulphur, Common Bluetongue, Eastern Brown Snake, Eurasian Bittern, European Peacock, Fire Salamander, Golden Eagle, Greater Flamingo, Long-Eared Owl, Mexican Redknee, Monarch, Old World Swallowtail, Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, White-Tailed Sea-Eagle

Behaviour, size and weight

Mountain Hare is classed as Solitary in Frontier's Social & Reproduction notes: “Mountain hares are largely solitary but will interact during the breeding season and may gather at food sources when food is scarce.” On size the game lists 0.50 m (nosetorump) for the male and 0.55 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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All 130 animals · Full compatibility chart for Mountain Hare · Aquarium animals · Aviary birds · Deluxe edition animals · System requirements