What species would you like to own, but can't for whatever reason?

Chameleon, preferably Trioceros. But even veileds are already extremely sporadic (and illegal) here in Brazil, for no less than 1500 reais even if you're lucky. In fact, there aren't even legal iguana and tegu breeders nowadays as far as I'm aware of, despite the legal exotic snake market emerging the past few years.

 

For my whole life I wanted a pet bird (medium-sized parrot, pigeon, chicken, or duck). As a military family, it is very hard to own pets. If you don’t already know military families get sent to different bases around the country and have to move every few years. I have a small dog, and the process it takes to bring him wherever we go is already hard enough as it is. So I can’t imagine how hard it would be to move from one place to another, with a bird. Plus, birds are known to not handle stress very well so moving, especially when it involves getting onto an airplane, could possibly result in the shock or in extreme cases, even death of the bird.

 

The more I get into my new study the less I think I will ever keep any of these animals, apart from the koi or other fishes.
Since my study educates me to work with the wild nature the need for pets isn't as high since I should still see plenty of animals on a daily basis and get unique chances with them.
One animal I would however get likely is a dog, always loved and had them and it just seems nice to have a companion along when working in the woods, when allowed ofcourse.

Other additions and changes I'd make is the removal of squirrels and the addition for tropical fish and possible invertebrate species, for which anything goes.

 

You Americans and Europeans are lucky, us Australians can’t have lions or tigers!!

But I would love a Black Panther, Blue and Gold Macaw and drumroll please.................. stoats and leopard geckos!

 

Binturongs. They are endangered, to a good part from the pet trade(which allone is a reaspn why I will never keep them). And need a lot of space(espicially a warm indoor space for the winter). But I love these popcorn flavoured raccon cats :3

 

I would definitely enjoy having some lowland anoas ( Bubalus depressicornis) , although it would be impossible. i would of course breed them due to their status . I already have the land availiable because i live on a farm and i have experience working with the species lol....

 

Timbavati Wildlife Park has them. They're available in the private trade. You just have to know where to look.

 

As with a lot of the more exotic and cooler species

 

the anoas? there are some at private breeder institutions and in zoos for sure! but most zoos cant get hands on them so i dont see how i will be able to .... unless i become an actual private breeder ( which i have no problem with lol)

 

Considering they've become available to unaccredited, borderline roadside zoos, I'd imagine the issue is more one of high supply, low demand. I don't think many American zoos are jumping at keeping anoas unfortunately, whereas there are quite a lot kept between the few private breeders who do work directly with the AZA SSP.

~Thylo

 

well dang! i have written over 5 reports on the species( varying topics) and have never encountered a page or article listing a "for sale" or " loan".... i guess viewing what could be available would be up to the SSP/ species coordinator???...--- i am so confused

 

I doubt they're being advertised for sale casually, but clearly there is a method to obtain them.

~Thylo

 

Me personally, I would say cacomistle/ring-tail, though I'm not sure what the local laws are (and even if I was cleared, any potential issue with allergies among my peers).

 

You're correct. The best answer that I've gotten is: "He got them from his friend that owns another zoo." When I asked the son of Timbavati's owners how they got theirs.

 

Neolamprolgus furcifer.
As people who know me might expect, it's an unusual Tanganyikan cichlid. It has basically the same body form as Neolamprologus brichardi which is one of the commonest aquarium cichlids, sometimes called the Princess of Burundi, but it is rather larger with longer fins and it is completely purple except for yellow rings around the eyes. Moreover it is said to be specialised for living in underwater caves, often swimming upside down with its belly near the cave's roof. I have never seen this species for sale, but I did see one when I visited the fish room of a Rift Valley cichlid specialist, which I think was in August 1991.

 

Google offers some videos of what is supposedly this species kept in captivity. Two videos were dated 2010 and one 2020.

~Thylo

 

I always want to keep all species of monitor lizard, excluding the Komodo dragons of course (You literally need to have the permission of the president to kept the Komodo dragons). But some monitor lizard, such as auffenbergi, beccarii, boehmei, indicus, melinus, nebulosus, panoptes, prasinus, reisingeri, similis, timorensis, and togianus are protected by the Indonesian government and you can get arrested if you get caught keeping one of this species.

So I change my dream to kept all species of polypterus and channa species.

 

I spent some time on YouTube last night. Although they were interesting only one of the videos showed a fully grown N. furcifer and it didn't match the one I saw all those years ago. I will never be able to keep the species, because my flat is too small and on the first floor (translation for Americans less familiar with English English than Thylo is, apartment & second floor).