Exotic animals you have touched/handled

EternalPigeon said:
These are animals I have touched that I can remember:

- Giraffe
- Binturong
- Eastern Gray Kangaroo
- Red-Necked Pademelon
- Rock Dove (in the wild)
- Zebra Dove (in the wild)
- Spotted Dove (in the wild)
- Black Swan
- Mallard
- Domestic Turkey
- Australian White Ibis (in the wild)
- Scarlet Macaw
- Blue-&-Gold Macaw
- Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo
- Cockatiel
- Budgerigar
- American Alligator
- Green Sea Turtle
- Burmese Python
- Gopher Tortoise
- African Spurred Tortoise
- Eyestripe Surgeonfish
- Pacific Cleaner Shrimp
- Horseshoe Crab
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Oh yeah, I also forgot African Elephant
 
Here is my list:

  • Asian Elephant
  • White-tailed Deer
  • Red Footed Tortoise
  • Ruddy Ground Dove (in the wild)
  • Reticulated Python
  • Mallard
  • Corn Snake
  • Ostrich
And I think that's it... For now! Although, I believe I have touched more but I don't remember.
 
I mean, I didnt get to do much.
Ring-tailed lemur (breifly). For some reason at a park there was a farm animal show. However, exotics were held by another guy, and let crowds pet a Ring-tailed lemur.
Pancake tortoise (same guy, same event,)
My fingers got pinched by a crayfish!
I also have touched hissing cockroachs, and ball pythons at various zoos.
Got invited to feed asian forest tortoises at the Minnesota zoo 30 min before closing.
And My most exciting moment is when I stuck a stick in a hollow tree (something that I do often to check for critters), and out came a super fast was a Flying squirrel!

Thats it, not as exciting as some other peoples list here, (really jealous!).
 
Working in the vet field currently and I’ve only touched a few exotics that needed diagnostics as well as treatments. Here are some:
Red Tailed Hawk- dehydration and malnourished
Great Blue Heron- wing injury
Great Egret- injured legs due to suspected power line shock
Hippopotamus- BTS at the LA Zoo
Echidna- BTS at the SDZ Safari Park
Grey Kangaroos- during tour of the Walkabout Australia on the lawn while feeding them

and two are that not not much a touch or handle but was able to feed a Przewalski's Horse at the SDZ Safari Park during the cart tour and the giraffes as well during the caravan safari. The horse were only coming down near to the fence since they could see the food while the camels chilling out :D
 
:Ball Python
:Green Iguana
Painted Turtle (Wild)
:Reticulated Giraffe
:Masai Giraffe
:Juvenile Reticulated Python
:Common Garter Snake (Wild)
:Rainbow Lorikeet
:Copperhead(Wild: Almost bit my wrist)
:Radiated Tortoise
:Red Kangaroo
:African Crested Porcupine
:Fennec Fox
:Sulpher-crested Cockatoo
:Budgerigar
:Channel Catfish(Caught)
 
By no means an exhaustive list but some stand outs include:

Platypus
Yapok
Eastern barred bandicoot
Koala
Chinese Pangolin
Mountain Tapir
Brazilian Tapir
Taruca or North Andean Deer
Common Duiker
Javan Rusa Deer
Nilgai
Armenian Mouflon
Persian Goitered Gazelle
Indian Rhino
Hartman's Mountain Zebra
Giraffe
Asiatic Elephant
Southern Tamandua
Silky Anteater
Southern naked-tailed armadillo
Giant Armadillo
Bolivian Hairy Armadillo
Brown-throated three-toed sloth
Hoffmann's two-toed sloth
Mottle faced tamarin
Bolivian squirrel monkey
Long-tailed shrew
Javan Binturong
Mountain Coati (actual)
Red-tailed squirrel
MacConnell’s bat
 
Just listing mammals for now...

Through zoo visits and tours:
Sumatran orangutan (Adelaide Zoo)
Bolivian squirrel monkey (Adelaide Zoo)
Siamang (Adelaide Zoo)
Western grey kangaroo (multiple facilities)
Red kangaroo (multiple facilities)
Koala (multiple)
Yellow-footed rock wallaby (Monarto Safari Park)
Red-necked wallaby (Gorge Wildlife Park)
Kangaroo Island Kangaroo (Cleland Wildlife Park)
Euro (Cleland Wildlife Park)
Quokka (Adelaide Zoo)

Through work placements and internships:
Chimpanzee
Black tufted-ear marmoset
Common marmoset
Pig-tailed macaque
Cotton-top tamarin
Southern white rhinoceros
Spotted hyena
Cheetah
Giraffe
Tree pangolin
Maxwell's duiker
Bushbuck
Another duiker... I think Ogilby's?
Black-flanked rock wallaby
Greater bilby
Brush-tailed bettong
Rufous bettong
Dingo
Southern brown bandicoot
Long-nosed potoroo
Southern hairy-nosed wombat
Squirrel glider
Sugar glider
Red-necked pademelon
Echidna
 
Do touch tanks count? :p If so, I've touched a Port Jackson Shark (egg) and Upside-Down Jellyfish. I've also touched a Black-Headed Python, Blue-Tongued Skink and Bearded Dragon (although I would hardly call the Bearded Dragon exotic).
 
Stefan Verhoeven said:
The list is way to long to mention all, but the most special ones for me were:
- Spix and lears macaw
- Beira
- Gerenuk
- Phillips dikdik
- Spekes gazelle
- King BOP
- Greater BOP
- Saddlebilled and Shoebilled Stork
- Greater adjutant
- King, Somali and Southeast African cheetah
- Serval
- Arabian sandcat
- Pygmy slow loris
- Andean Cock of the Rock
- Common wallaroo
- Steller sea eagle
- Andean condor
- Secretary bird
- Palm cockatoo
- Visayan Warty pig
- Many hornbill, crane and flamingo species
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I realized I have forgot on an several other interesting species, most are touched, the fish are only handled:
- Gila monster
- Spengleri turtle
- Four-eyed turtle
- Alligator snapper
- Gaboon puff adder
- African rock python (learned to work with a snake hook on specimens of 2,5-3 meter, grumpy animals)
- Butterfly splitfin
- Bold characodon
- Rainbow goodeid
- Betta burdigala
- Goliath birdeater
- Arabian oryx
- White rhino
Many more species I have touched and handled, but those are the most interesting in my opinion.
 
I touched an elephant at the Woodland Park Zoo and a koala in San Diego. I don't think I was supposed to do the latter but there it was and there was no one around... I've had opportunities to touch snakes but have declined.
 
TinoPup said:
Where?!?!

The ones I can remember off the top of my head:
Cheetah
Orca
Beluga
Giraffe (possibly several species, depending on what you go by)
Red Fox
Bison
New Guinea Singing Dog
A bunch of sharks, rays, starfish, etc in touch tanks
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Some to add from this year:

Aardvark
Agile Wallaby
Aoudad
Axis Deer
Ball Python
Blackbuck
Black Ratsnake
Brazilian Three-banded Armadillo
Brindle Wildebeest
Common Eland
Elk
Eurasian Eagle Owl
Fallow Deer
Gayal
Guanaco
Impala
Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec
Nilgai
North American Porcupine
Pere David’s Deer
Rainbow Lorikeet
Red Kangaroo
Reeve’s Muntjac
Sable
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Sika Deer
Striped Skunk
Urial
Waterbuck
Water Buffalo
Yak
Zebra
 
Not many

Most likely to be considered "exotic":
-Rosy boa
-Blue and gold macaw
-Galapagos tortoise
-Bottlenose dolphin
-some type of caiman lizard
-Bat ray
-Bamboo shark
-Red kangaroo
-Asian elephant
-some generic darkling beetle

Common pets:
-Goldfish
-Budgie
-Dwarf hamster
 
A very short list for me, not without reason as touching can be stressful for many animals.

- Barbary macaque (technically it touched me by jumping on my head to get into my backpack)
- Przewalski horse (hand-fed)
- Common fallow deer (hand-fed)
- Rainbow lorikeet (on my hand when feeding it)
- Hooded vulture (it touched my head with it's claws when flying over me)
- Crested caracara
- Humboldt penguin (it tried to bite me in the foot)- Corn snake

Besides this also several aquatic animals like freshwater shrimp and snails and about a dozen freshwater fish species (from my own aquaria). Probably not considered that exotic by many people. The only dangerous ones of those are striated botias and harnassed catfish, both fish I don't touch unless it's an emergency requiring direct action. botias have scalps similar to surgeonfish and the catfish have very sharp finrays.

Further I touched a dead small-spotted catshark when dissecting it, but that doesn't really count I guess.
 
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