but they might have been owned illegally as part of the UK's exotic pet black market prior to their release. Chris Lewis, captivity researcher at animal charity Born Free, told MailOnline ...

Many of the large exotic animals that end up in backyard menageries—lions and tigers, monkeys and bears—are bred in captivity. Today on the Internet you can find zebras and camels and cougars ...

The investigation has uncovered allegations of injuries and near-fatal encounters going back years, many times involving large exotic animals kept in captivity. The investigation, published by ABC ...

Each year 25 million of us visit a UK zoo ... close to exotic creatures. But is there more to zoos than public amusement? Since the days of the first menageries, when wild animals were caged ...

Too often, it is left up to the researcher to decide what captive ... live animals. “The Laboratory Rat: A Natural History” (Manuel Berdoy, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 2002).

Additionally, the wildlife trade’s complexity and lack of transparency often make it exceedingly difficult to discern whether the animals were captive-bred or wild-caught, and how they were handled ...