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American Alligator

American Alligator

The American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), sometimes referred to colloquially as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States

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Corn Snake

Corn Snake

The corn snake (Pantherophis guttatus) is a North American species of rat snake that subdues its small prey by constriction.

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Canada Geese

Canada Geese

Canada geese (Branta canadensis) is a large wild goose with a black head and neck, white cheeks, white under its chin, and a brown body.

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Green Wing Macaw

Green Wing Macaw

Green Wing Macaws have spectacular plumage and a personality to match. They are often mistaken for the Scarlet Macaw. However, the Scarlet has yellow on the wings.

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Scarlet Macaw

Scarlet Macaw

The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is a large red, yellow, and blue Central and South American parrot, a member of a large group of Neotropical parrots called macaws.

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Blue & Gold Macaw

Blue & Gold Macaw

These birds can reach a length of 76–86 cm and weigh 0.900–1.5 kg, making them some of the larger members of their family.

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Red-Rumped Agouti

Red-Rumped Agouti

Similar in appearance to a Guinea pig—but larger and with longer legs—red-rumped agoutis are members of the rodent family.

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Capybara

Capybara

The capybara has a heavy, barrel-shaped body and short head, with reddish-brown fur on the upper part of its body that turns yellowish-brown underneath. Its sweat glands can be found in the surface of

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Common Marmoset

Common Marmoset

Marmosets and tamarins are distinguished from the other monkeys of the New World by their small size, modified claws rather than nails on all digits except the big toe,

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African Lion

African Lion

Lions are large cats with short, tawny coats, white underparts, and long tails with a black tuft at the end. They are sexually dimorphic and male lions are the only cats with manes.

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Meerkats

Meerkats

A small herpestid with males averaging 731 grams and females 720 grams. The body and legs of these animals are long and slender, with head and body length between 250 and 350 mm.

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Serval

Serval

With yellowish or orange coloured fur that is covered with both dark spots and stripes (the size and placement of which vary wildly between individuals),

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Barbary Sheep

Barbary Sheep

Barbary Sheep is a relatively large sheep. The main pelage of the Barbary sheep is brown; however, the chin, throat, chest, and insides of the front limbs are covered with long, white hair.

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Dromadery Camel

Dromadery Camel

Dromadery Camel is a large even-toed ungulate . camels are characterized by a long-curved neck, deep-narrow chest, and a single hump. The hump is composed of fat bound together by fibrous tissue,

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Fennec Fox

Fennec Fox

Fennec Fox has fur on the soles of the feet to enable easy movement over sand. smallest of the canids. They range in size from 0.8 kg in vixens to 1.5 kg in males.

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African Leopard Tortoise

African Leopard Tortoise

The leopard tortoise is the fourth-largest species of tortoise in the world, with typical adults reaching 40cm and weighing 13kg. Adults tend to be larger in the northern and southern ends of their range

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Common Ostrich

Common Ostrich

Common Ostriches usually grow from 2.0 to 2.8 meters and weigh around 63 to 140 kilograms. It has a long, bare neck, slender, robust legs, and a huge body covered with feathers.

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Green Iguana

Green Iguana

The green iguana is a large lizard. Adults typically grow to 1.2 to 1.7 m in length from head to tail. As in all iguanas, the tail comprises much of this length, and the snout-to-vent length of most green iguanas is

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Red Tailed Boa Constrictor

Red Tailed Boa Constrictor

Adult males reach measurements of 8 ft., while females reach 10 ft. or longer. The average snake usually weighs about 30 lbs., but it isn’t unusual for some individuals to reach 60 lbs. or more.

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Glossy Ibis

Glossy Ibis

The glossy ibis is about 20 inches tall with a wingspan of about three feet. It has a long, dark gray bill that is curved down. It has dark purple to black feathers on its head, neck, back and belly.

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African Grey Parrot

African Grey Parrot

Plumage of Psittacus erithacus is various shades of grey with very distinctive red tail feathers. African grey parrots typically measure 33cm from head to tail and weigh up to 407gm.

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Egyptian Goose

Egyptian Goose

Long necks, long pink legs, a pink bill and brown eye patches encircling each eye. They are distinguished from closely related species by a brown patch in the middle of the chest.

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Red Eared Slider Turtle

Red Eared Slider Turtle

The red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) is a subspecies of the pond slider (Trachemys scripta), a semiaquatic turtle belonging to the family Emydidae.

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