Exotic dangerous and wild animals licences
This page has lists of the breeds of
dangerous wild animals which must be licenced.
Summary
People who would like to keep, or who are considering
keeping a dangerous wild animal on their premises,
must apply for a licence from the Council.
All animals included in the list of dangerous wild
animals shown below must be licenced.
- The Tasmanian Devil
- Grey kangaroos, the euro, the wallaroo and the red
kangaroo
- 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)
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- Sloths
- The giant armadillo
- The giant anteater
- The North American porcupine
- The capybara
- Crested porcupines
- 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
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- The walrus, eared seals, sealions and earless seals (the common
and grey seals are excepted)
- Asses, horses and zebras (the donkey, domestic horse and
domestic hybrids are excepted)
- Rhinoceroses
- Tapirs
- Tree and rock hyraxes (otherwise known as dassies)
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- 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
- Cassowaries
- The emu
- The ostrich
- 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)
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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