EXOTIC ANIMALS

An exotic pet is a rare or unusual animal pet, or an animal kept within human households which are generally thought of as a wild species not typically kept as a pet. 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. Although the breeding population has been largely isolated from wild populations outside the US, they still have the potential to transmit zoonotic disease. The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna, or CITES, moderates the trade of some exotic pets around the world, to prevent any threats to their survival and ecological damage. Certain animals may be strictly regulated or restricted outright due to both their conservation status, as well as the possibility of the animal becoming an invasive species.

Example of Exotic animals : 

Fennec Fox( Fennec foxes are commonly trapped for sale to the pet trade and for fur by the human population of Northern Africa

Sugar Gliders ( Loss of natural habitat in Australia over the last 200 years, it is adaptable and capable of living in small patches of remnant bush, particularly if it does not have to cross large expanses of cleared land to reach them)