Common Names of Dangerous Wild Animals (as shown in the Act)
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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
Cassowaries and Emu
- Cassowaries
- The emu
Ostrich
- The Ostrich
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)
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