exotic

After getting an exotic/dangerous animal license and you have everything you need, where do you get the animal? I’m guessing from other zoos/owners but how? I’m based in the uk if that helps.

What are the most exotic/strange/uncommon animals that you have seen on the pet trade within the last 40 years? You could have seen these exotic/uncommon/strange animals either as pets or for sale as pets. I have seen many civets, lorises and macaques for sale in South-East Asian markets...

I have recently noticed that many zoos do not many keep foreign small rodents or insectivorous mammals (except squirrels and dormice). By small rodents and insectivorous mammals, I mean animals such as rats, hedgehogs, shrews, mice, squirrels and dormice (no armadillos, pangolins, beavers, rats...

I have a female standard leopard gecko. I want to breed her. But first if someone could just answer these questions for me •she has a bright orange tail and i wanted to buy a mack snow leopard gecko. Would these two be suitable for breeding? •do i need any extra vivariums,heat lamps, heat...

Hello everyone, My name is Virgile Thomas Dean, I am a filmmaker, teacher and student at Emily Carr university in Vancouver. I am producing a film inspired by the Bob Dylan song "with god on our side" with the intention of speaking about human nature and the dangers of patriotism and...

Anyone else tired of people saying this? I wrote this post to show how animals will look sad...regardless of where they are. Sad zoo animals

Hello, I am currently really looking into opening a wildlife park for endangered animals, mainly tigers. I am not sure if the process is very different from opening a private zoo, but I thought I'd try my luck here. Does anyone here know what state is legal/easiest to open sanctuaries to...

Hello. I just joined ZooChat, and I work at the Oglebay Good Zoo. Because of the zoo's small size and odd location (located in the interior of Oglebay Park in Wheeling, West Virginia), the zoo is not well known by any standards. However, the zoo is special in many ways, and being the only AZA...