Exotic pet

Capuchin monkeys are among the primates kept as exotic pets

An exotic pet is a rare or unusual animal pet. It is kept in human households but is relatively unusual or usually thought of as a wild animal rather than as a pet.

"Exotic" often refers to a species which is not native]] (indigenous) to where the owner lives. "Pet" is a companion animal living with people.

Some animals kept as exotic pets

An wide variety of animals have been kept as pets. Below is a list of some animals that are kept in captivity at home and are thought to be "exotic". Where examples are provided within a category, the examples are the animals that are relatively commonly kept as pets in captivity at home within that category (although mice and parakeets may not really be considered very "exotic").

• Arachnids (e.g., tarantulas, scorpions, and vinegaroons)
• Dolphins and porpoises
• Frogs and toads (e.g., African bullfrogs, Argentine horned frogs, and fire-bellied toads)
• Genets
• Hedgehogs
• Insects (e.g., crickets, stick insects, Hercules beetles, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, and praying mantises)
• Kinkajous
• Kusimanses
• Lagomorphs (e.g. rabbits and hares)
• Lizards (e.g., bearded dragons, blue-tongued skinks, chameleons, day geckos, iguanas, monitor lizards, frilled dragon lizard, leopard geckos, and tegus)
• Marsupials (e.g., wallabies, wallaroos, koalas, wombats and possums such as sugar gliders)
• Myriapods (e.g., millipedes)
• Non-domesticated and hybrid canids (e.g., wolf-dog hybrids, fennec foxes, domesticated red foxes, and raccoon dogs)
• Non-domesticated and hybrid cats (e.g., Asian leopard cats, Bengal cats, caracals, chausies, savannah cats)

• Parrots (e.g., African grays, Amazon parrots, caiques, cockatiels, cockatoos, conures, eclectus parrots, lories, lorikeets, lovebirds, macaws, parakeets, and parrotlets)
• Pigeons
• Primates (e.g. galagos (bush babies) and monkeys such as squirrel monkeys and capuchins as pictured above)
• Raccoons
• Raptors (e.g., falcons and hawks)
• Rodents (e.g., capybaras, chinchillas, fancy rats, gerbils, dormice, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, Patagonian cavies, and squirrels)
• Salamanders (e.g., axolotls and tiger salamanders)
• Sharks (e.g., catsharks, dogfishes and wobbegongs) and other fishes (e.g., angelfishes, butterflyfishes, Moorish idols etc.)
• Skunks
• Snakes (e.g., ball pythons, boa constrictors, king snakes, rat snakes)
• Tortoises and other turtles (e.g., Greek tortoises, Hermann's tortoises, Russian tortoises, painted turtles, and red-eared sliders)

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