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Monarch
Danaus plexippus ·
Requirements at a glance
- Scientific name
- Danaus plexippus
- Status
- Vulnerable
- Biomes
- Grassland, Tropical, Temperate
- Temperature
- 21–30 °C
- Humidity
- 40–60 %
- Food / period
- $225
Getting the exhibit right
Monarch is an exhibit animal: it lives in a terrarium-style exhibit rather than an enclosure you build from barriers. Cheap to house, but unforgiving on two numbers.
Hold the exhibit at 21–30 °C with humidity at 40–60%. Exhibits fail quietly — welfare drifts when the climate slips, and by the time the alert appears you have usually lost a breeding cycle. Set both values before adding the animal.
With no land requirement, exhibits are the cheapest way to add species variety to a small zoo, and several count toward conservation goals. Guests walk past them quickly compared with a big habitat, though.
Habitat temperature
Compatible species
None listed — keep this species on its own or in a single-species group.
Budgeting this habitat
Food runs about $225 per period. See how that compares across the roster in our food cost ranking, or start from the best starter animals if this is a first zoo.
Similar species
ExhibitCommon Bluetongue
ExhibitBoa Constrictor
ExhibitCloudless Sulphur
ExhibitEastern Brown Snake
Biome: GrasslandTropicalTemperate
Figures from the official Planet Zoo 2 Zoopedia, checked 2026-10-21; patches can change them — trust your in-game build menu if they differ. Official entry. Artwork © Frontier Developments; used here for identification.