How to Increase Animal Husbandry Rating in Planet Zoo 2

All the details on how to increase and manage your animal husbandry rating in Planet Zoo 2 to ensure every creature is content.

Koi in Planet Zoo 2
Image via Frontier Developments

Crafting the perfect zoo in Planet Zoo 2 requires balancing a heap of different aspects, including ensuring your Animal Husbandry rating is at a high level.

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Aside from keeping animals content in Planet Zoo 2, you also need to ensure your zoo is sustainable, meets the requirements of guests, and is profitable.

Animal Husbandry is one of the core requirements for a strong zoo in Planet Zoo 2, and we’ve got all the crucial details on the topic.

What is The Animal Husbandry Rating in Planet Zoo 2?

The Thriving status of a Wild Boar in Planet Zoo 2
Thriving. Screenshot by Prima Games

The Animal Husbandry rating in Planet Zoo 2 is a score, up to five-stars, that rates the happiness of the animals in your zoo and the work you are doing to ensure they are content.

All animals in Planet Zoo 2 have a range of requirements to meet, including ensuring the correct terrain is present, providing enough space for traversal, including swimming, climbing, and flying, and making sure enough enrichment items are present.

At a base level, this is shown in an animal’s general happiness, shown in a percentage, which, most of the time, is easy to meet. However, Planet Zoo 2 provides another layer of depth with Thriving requirements.

The overall rating is broken down into the average welfare of every animal in your zoo, alongside how many Thriving animals you have.

How to Increase Planet Zoo 2 Animal Husbandry Rating

The basic way to increase your Planet Zoo 2 Animal Husbandry rating is to check each of your habitats and exhibits to see the happiness levels of your animals, and adjust any issues that arise.

Once an animal has reached 100% happiness, it doesn’t necessarily stay that way, as their happiness will be affected by the availability of food, the space they have, and whether they are being overwhelmed by guests. Therefore, it’s wise to always keep tabs.

You should be especially careful when any young animals born in your zoo grow up, as they can quickly knock the requirements for specific species out of whack, especially in the case of males.

At a deeper level, raising the Animal Husbandry level in Planet Zoo 2 requires having a variety of species that are Thriving in your zoo, which requires meeting specific requests for the creature, and you’ll need to research what these are.

This can include everything from having specified plants and fauna in an exhibit, to having multiple of the same enrichment item available, so make sure to keep on top of your species research and tackle new requirements as they emerge.

Josh Challies

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