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Common Names of Dangerous Wild Animals (as shown in the Act)

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Mammals | Birds | Reptiles | Invertebrates

Mammals

Marsupials | Primates | Edentates | Rodents | Carnivores | Pinnipedes | Elephants | Odd-Toed Ungulates | Hyraxes | Aardvark | Even-Toed Ungulates

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, tit, 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 racoon-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
• The African, large spotted, Malay and large Indian civets, the binturong and the fossa.

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 and Emu

• Cassowaries
• The emu

Ostrich

• The Ostrich

Reptiles

Crocodilians

• Alligators and caimans
• Crocodiles and the false gharial
• The gharial (otherwise known as the gavial)

Lizards and Snakes

• 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 re-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) bearded lizard
• Certain front-fanged venomous snaked (including adders, the barba amarilla, the bushmaster, the copperhead, the fer-delance, 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 redback spider) and its close relatives.

Scorpions

• Buthid scorpions