Exotic dangerous and wild animals licences
Persons wishing to keep a dangerous wild animal on their
premises must make an application for a licence from the Council if
the animal is included in the schedule of dangerous wild animals
shown below.
Marsupials
- The Tasmanian Devil;
- Grey kangaroos, the euro, the wallaroo and the red
kangaroo.
Primates
- Tamarins;
- New-world monkeys (including capuchin, howler, saki, spider,
squirrel, titi, uakari and woolly monkeys and the night monkey
[otherwise known as the douroucouli]);
- Old-world monkeys (including baboons, the drill, colobus
monkeys, the gelada, guenons, langurs, leaf monkeys, macaques, the
mandrill, mangabeys, the patas and proboscis monkeys and the
talapoin);
- Leaping lemurs (including the indri, sifakas and the woolly
lemur);
- Large lemurs (the broad-nosed gentle lemur and the grey gentle
lemur are excepted);
- Anthropoid apes (including chimpanzees, gibbons, the gorilla
and the orang-utan).
Edentates
- Sloths;
- The giant armadillo;
- The giant anteater.
Rodents
- The North American porcupine;
- The capybara;
- Crested porcupines.
Carnivores
- The giant panda and the red panda;
- jackals, wild dogs, wolves and the coyote (foxes, the
raccoon-dog and the domestic dog are excepted);
- The bobcat, caracal, cheetah, jaguar, lion, lynx, ocelot, puma,
serval, tiger and all other cats (the domestic cat is
excepted);
- Hyenas (except the aardwolf);
- Badgers (except the Eurasian Badger), otters (except the
European otter), and the tayra, wolverine, fisher and ratel
(otherwise known as the honey badger);
- Cacomistles, raccoons, coatis, olingos, the little coatimundi
and the kinkajou
- Bears.
Pinnipedes
- The walrus, eared seals, sealions and earless seals (the common
and grey seals are excepted).
Elephants
Odd-toed
ungulates
- Asses, horses and zebras (the donkey, domestic horse and
domestic hybrids are excepted);
- Rhinoceroses;
- Tapirs.
Hyraxes
- Tree and rock hyraxes (otherwise known as dassies).
Aardvark
Even-toed
ungulates
- The pronghorn;
- Antelopes, bison, buffalo, cattle, gazelles, goats and sheep
(domestic cattle, goats and sheep are excepted);
- Camels, the guanaco and the vicugna (the domestic llama and
alpaca are excepted);
- The moose or elk and the caribou or reindeer (the domestic
reindeer is excepted);
- The giraffe and the okapi;
- The hippopotamus and the pygmy hippopotamus;
- Old-world pigs (including the wild boar and the wart hog), (the
domestic pig is excepted);
- New-world pigs (otherwise known as peccaries);
- Mammalian hybrids with a parent (or parents) of a specified
kind.
Birds
- Cassowaries;
- The emu;
- The ostrich.
Reptiles
- Alligators and caimans;
- Crocodiles and the false gharial;
- The gharial (otherwise known as the gavial);
- Mole vipers and certain rear-fanged venomous snakes (including
the moila and montpellier snakes, sand snakes, twig snakes, the
mangrove [otherwise known as the yellowringed catsnake], the
boomslang, the red-necked keelback and the yamakagashi [otherwise
known as the Japanese tiger-snake]);
- Certain front-fanged venomous snakes (including cobras, coral
snakes, the desert black snake, kraits, mambas, sea snakes and all
Australian poisonous snakes [including the death adders]);
- The gila monster and the (Mexican) beaded lizard;
- Certain front-fanged venomous snakes (including adders, the
barba amarilla, the bushmaster, the copperhead, the fer-de-lance,
moccasins, rattlesnakes and vipers).
Invertebrates
Spiders
- Wandering spiders;
- The Sydney funnel-web spider and its close relatives;
- The Brazilian wolf spider;
- Brown recluse spiders (otherwise known as violin spiders);
- The black widow spider (otherwise known as the redback spider)
and its close known relatives.
Scorpions