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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
  • 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
  • The 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
  • Buthid scorpions.
For further information please contact the Dog Warden and Animal Welfare Officer on 01653 600666 ext.208
 
           
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