Planet Zoo 2 Saltwater Crocodile — habitat, biome, size & which animals it can live with

Saltwater Crocodile is one of the 130 Planet Zoo 2 launch species. It is housed in a Habitat habitat, accepts the Estuarine / Mangrove / Rainforest biome, carries a Grade 3 · 1m barrier requirement and is listed at 5.20 m (length). It shares a biome and an enclosure type with 19 other species, but the official species data rules out every one of those pairings, so it needs a habitat of its own.

Saltwater Crocodile

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)5.20 m

Weight (M)240 kg

BarrierGrade 3

EnclosureHabitat

BiomesEstuarine / Mangrove / Rainforest

StatusLeast Concern

Where it lives in the wild
Asia · Australasia

Saltwater Crocodile at a glance

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

Enclosure and barrier requirements

Saltwater Crocodile needs a Habitat enclosure and accepts the Estuarine / Mangrove / Rainforest biomes. The barrier requirement is Grade 3 · 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 Saltwater Crocodile?

Saltwater Crocodile shares a biome and an enclosure type with 19 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

19 of the species that accept the Estuarine / Mangrove / Rainforest biome cannot share an enclosure with the Saltwater Crocodile, 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
African Leopard	RainforestSavannah	Habitat	African Leopard is solitary “African leopards are solitary except for a mother raising her cubs.”
Asian Elephant	RainforestSavannahWetlands	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Galápagos Giant Tortoise	Rainforest	Habitat	Galápagos Giant Tortoise is solitary “Giant Galápagos tortoises are solitary but do tolerate each other. Saddleback males are particularly aggressive towards each other during the mating season.”
Gharial	Lakes & RiversRainforestWetlands	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Golden Lion Tamarin Deluxe	Rainforest	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Goodfellow's Tree-Kangaroo	Rainforest	Habitat	Goodfellow's Tree-Kangaroo is solitary “Goodfellow’s tree-kangaroos are largely solitary, except for a mother and her joey, and when brief pair bonds form between males and females during breeding.”
Grey Wolf	DesertRainforestSavannahTaigaTemperateTundra	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Komodo Dragon	MangroveRainforestWetlands	Habitat	Komodo Dragon is solitary “Komodo dragons are solitary creatures, but they will group together to feed and mate. When in groups, the largest male is dominant; he will…”
Malayan Tapir	RainforestWetlands	Habitat	Malayan Tapir is solitary “Malayan tapirs are often solitary but may also be found in monogamous pairs with their young offspring or in temporary feeding groups. They are tolerant of other individuals.”
North Sulawesi Babirusa	Rainforest	Habitat	North Sulawesi Babirusa is solitary “Babirusa females tend to live in small groups made up of sisters and their offspring under two years old. Mature males live alone but will c…”
Ring-Tailed Lemur	Rainforest	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Siamang	Rainforest	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Sumatran Orangutan	Rainforest	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Sumatran Tiger	RainforestWetlands	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Sun Bear	RainforestWetlands	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Sunda Pangolin	Rainforest	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Western Chimpanzee	Rainforest	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Western Lowland Gorilla	RainforestWetlands	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”
Wild Boar	RainforestSavannahTemperateWetlands	Habitat	Saltwater Crocodile is solitary “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females…”

Close, but ruled out by enclosure type

31 species share at least one biome with the Saltwater Crocodile 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.

Amazonian Giant Centipede, Blacktip Reef Shark, Boa Constrictor, Common Bluetongue, Diamondback Terrapin, Giant Forest Scorpion, Giant Grouper, Giant Malaysian Leaf Insect, Giant Tiger Land Snail, Golden Poison Frog, Golden Trevally, Goliath Beetle, Great Hornbill, Greater Flamingo, Hawksbill Turtle, Indian Ocean Oriental Sweetlips, Indo-Pacific Leopard Shark, Javan Green Magpie, Lehmann's Poison Frog, Long-Tailed Parakeet, Menelaus Blue Morpho, Mexican Redknee, Monarch, Moon Jelly, Ocellated Eagle Ray, Red Lionfish, Red-Eyed Tree Frog, Sri Lankan Rose, Threespot Damselfish, Toco Toucan, West Indian Manatee

Behaviour, size and weight

Saltwater Crocodile is classed as Solitary in Frontier's Social & Reproduction notes: “Saltwater crocodiles are solitary, territorial and extremely aggressive. Males will tolerate females living on their territory, and females will look after their hatchlings for the first 8 m…” On size the game lists 5.20 m (length) for the male and 3.10 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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