Most exotic animals seen on the pet trade
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What did you see?
Tapir, sun bear and gibbon young. All listed under CITES appendix I.
I don't know about tapirs and Sun Bears, but I know White-Handed Gibbons are bred in small numbers for the pet trade (at least in the US).
I've seen too many to list advertised on the internet. In person, I'd have to say that nile crocs are the most insane. Spider monkeys were fairly common in pet shops when I was a kid (30 years ago).
The most interesting thing I've seen of late was here in my town. A shop that sells exotic birds had a young turaco for sale. There's a fish shop not far from here that had a Goliath tigerfish and some kind of lungfish a year or two back.
The most interesting thing I've seen of late was here in my town. A shop that sells exotic birds had a young turaco for sale. There's a fish shop not far from here that had a Goliath tigerfish and some kind of lungfish a year or two back.
Yeah, I have seen African Lungfish in pet stores, too.
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Plenty of Touracos are bred in private aviaries in Europe. Not regarded as 'pets' though, they are very much aviary birds.
In person, there was a pet store that opened up in the dumpy mall next to the walmart at the beach here that had a few puppies and kittens, a ton of rodents, and some exotics. Coati, wallabies, ringtailed lemurs, several monkey species, a bunch of different reptiles and fish (I didn't look closely at those but I'm sure some were uncommon pet species). Many of the animals were clearly sick and it broke my heart.
If we're including illegal sales, I've helped with the tracking of some people selling cheetahs, primarily via instagram. Middle eastern countries are finally cracking down on it and arresting people.
Ken stopped selling animals a few years ago. A lot of his were brokered, rather than ones he actually had; I believe he mostly kept servals, rodents, and marsupials. The weirdest thing I ever saw him advertise was vampire bats.
If we're including illegal sales, I've helped with the tracking of some people selling cheetahs, primarily via instagram. Middle eastern countries are finally cracking down on it and arresting people.
Ken stopped selling animals a few years ago. A lot of his were brokered, rather than ones he actually had; I believe he mostly kept servals, rodents, and marsupials. The weirdest thing I ever saw him advertise was vampire bats.
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Did anyone buy Bongorob?
African manatees??? I would assume those are illegal.
It was only offered for AZA or equivalent facilities.
That guy has some CRAZY stuff. Echidans, fishing cats, aardwolfs, bearded pigs and those manatees. Weird how many things are legal in north america
An African Manatee could not be legally imported into the US afaik.. I didn't see anything about them on Twitter.
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Heres a link
Kens Exotics (@KensExotics) | Twitter
Kens Exotics (@KensExotics) | Twitter
That still only goes to his main Twitter.
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