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THE DANGEROUS WILD ANIMALS ACT 1976 (MODIFICATION) ORDER 1984 (SI/1984 No 1111)

The following is a list of some of the animals for which, when kept privately, a licence is required I have only listed the Common name or names, refer to the order for full details of all animals

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 & 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)

Indriidae Leaping lemurs (including the indri,sifakas and the woolly lemur)

Large lemurs (the broad-nosed gentle lemur and the grey gentle lemur are excepted)
Pongidae Anthropoid apes (including Chimpanzees, gibbons, the gorilla and orang-utan)

Sloths

The giant armadillo

The giant anteater

The North American porcupine

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)

Hyaenas (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)
raccoons, coatis, olingos, the little coatimundi and the kinkajou.
Ursidae Bears

The African, large-spotted, genus Malay and large Indian civets, the binturong and the fossa.

The walrus, eared seals and sealions and earless seals (the common and grey seals are excepted)

Elephants

Rhinoceroses

Tapirs

Aardvark

Antelopes, bison, buffalo, 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 boarand the wart hog)(the domestic pig is excepted).
New-world pigs (otherwise known as peccaries)

Any hybrid of a kind of animal specified in the foregoing provisions of this column where one parent is, or both parents are, of a kind so specified.

The emu

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 yellow-ringed
catsnake), the boomslang, the rednecked keelback and the yamakagashi  (other-wise 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)

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 redback spider) and its close relatives.

Scorpions
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