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Exotic pets, the new pets animals?

An exotic pet is a rare or unusual animal pet, or an animal kept within human households which is generally thought of as a wild species not typically kept as a pet. [source : wikipedia]

Commonly, the definition is an evolving one; some rodents, reptiles, and amphibians have become firmly enough established in the world of animal fancy to no longer be considered exotic. Sometimes any unique or wild-looking pet (including common domestic animals such as the ferret and the fancy rat) is called an exotic pet.

Unlike commonly domesticated pets, exotic animals retain their wild nature. Even if they are bred for the pet trade and raised by humans, they may be unpredictable, relatively resistant to training; in some cases, especially as full-grown adults, they can be dangerous. Injuries to humans may be relatively common, but reported yearly deaths due to exotic pet ownership are rare

Animals kept as exotic pets

Among exotic pets, we mostly found:

• Felines such as lions, tigers, bobcats, servals, and ocelots
• Reptiles such as snakes, turtles, tortoises, and lizards
• Arachnids such as spiders and scorpions
• Farm animals such as cows, guinea fowls, ponies, pigs, crows, chickens, pigeons, goat kids, peafowls, roosters, llamas, peacocks, pheasants, quails, lambs, horses, donkeys, turkeys, goats, and sheep
  
• Insects such as praying mantises, slugs, earthworms, fireflies, snails, honey bees, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, fleas, and some beetles
• Crustaceans such as yabbies, ghost shrimp, marron, krill, crabs, and shrimp.
  
• Rare birds such as emus, ostriches, kiwis, owls, eagles, hawks, falcons, penguins, and cassowaries.
  
• Rodents such as chinchillas, acacia rats, African pygmy dormice, African pygmy mice, Gambian pouched rats, mouse-like hamsters, jirds, jerboas, lemmings and zebra mice amongst many others
• Hyenas
• Non-human primates
  

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