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Discover the world of mammals — warm-blooded vertebrates that nurse their young with milk, spanning from the tiniest shrews and bats to elephants, whales, and primates, across every habitat on Earth.
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Hawaii is one of the most beautiful places on Earth to call home, but it also has some of the most restrictive animal ownership laws in the United States.
If you’ve been drawn to the idea of keeping a skunk as a companion animal, you’re not alone — these intelligent, curious creatures have attracted interest from exotic pet enthusiasts across the country.
Delaware is one of the more straightforward states when it comes to sugar glider ownership.
If you’ve ever tossed corn into your backyard for a passing whitetail or considered setting up a bait pile before deer season, Kentucky law has something specific to say about it.
The idea of owning a lion captures the imagination, but the legal reality in North Dakota is layered, specific, and governed by rules at both the state and federal level.
Tigers are among the most powerful animals on Earth, and the question of whether you can legally own one in Arkansas has a clear answer: no, you cannot — at least not as a private individual.
If you are thinking about bringing a ferret home in New Mexico, you are in one of the more straightforward states for ferret ownership in the country.
Arkansas has no single statewide law that bans backyard pigs outright, but that does not mean you can simply bring one home without doing your homework.
If you raise pigs in Nebraska — whether you run a commercial farrow-to-finish operation, breed purebreds, or show hogs at the county fair — swine identification rules directly affect how you move, sell, and register your animals.
Wolves are among the most fascinating animals in North America, and it is no surprise that some people in Kansas wonder whether they can legally keep one.
If you have been researching exotic pets in Montana and landed on foxes, you have probably encountered conflicting information — some sources claim foxes are legal with a fur farm license, while others say they are flatly prohibited.
Montana is one of the few states in the country where owning a wolf is not an outright prohibition — but that does not mean you can simply bring one home.
If you’ve been thinking about adding a sugar glider to your household in Maine, you’re probably wondering whether the Pine Tree State even allows it.
Coyote hunting in Delaware has changed significantly in recent years, and if you haven’t checked the regulations lately, you may be operating under outdated rules.
Raccoons are a fixture of Arizona life — raiding trash cans in Phoenix, denning in Scottsdale attics, and wandering through Tucson backyards with surprising regularity.
South Dakota sits in a legal gray zone when it comes to monkey ownership.
Owning a lion in Hawaii is not a gray area.
Utah is home to large populations of mule deer that routinely wander into backyards, neighborhoods, and mountain communities across the state.
West Virginia is widely known as one of the more permissive states when it comes to exotic pet ownership, but pet skunks sit in a genuinely contested legal space.
If you have ever wondered whether you could own a tiger in Wyoming, the answer is a clear no — and it has been that way under both federal and state law for some time.
