Our Incredible Animal Team

Our animals are first and foremost all loving companion animals that have the highest standards of welfare. They are all owned by Ben and reside in his home. We will only use certain species of animals that not only can cope with being part of the interactive experience, but also actually enjoy it. Some animals thrive on social structures and stable environments, and as such it would be unfair to use such animals in these experiences and therefore we don't.

As professional zoo keepers we strive to stick to the high standards we have been taught and use similar animals that are used in interactive experiences in all creditable zoos.

If you are looking for raccoons, coatis or any other species that is classified as an invasive species by our government, then we are not the company for you as this is classed as an illegal act as stated on the UK Government official website. However if you are looking for well adjusted animals that are part of a team that enjoy inspiring and teaching people, then look no further as Exotic Explorers is for you.

All our animals are registered with Ian Wooding at Woodings family veterinary practice.

Please note, not all of our animals are suitable for all types of experiences. Please let us know your preferred animals and if, for any reason they are not available, we can guide you to a suitable similar option.

Birds

Black Barn Owl on perch — Black Barn Owl / Latin Name: Tyto Alba / Melanistic Barn Owl / Featuring Twyla

British Barn Owl on perch — British Barn Owl / Latin Name: Tyto Alba / Featuring Lydia

White Barn Owl on perch — White Barn Owl / Latin Name: Tyto Alba / Leucistic Barn Owl / Featuring Bubo

White Faced Owl on perch — Southern White-Faced Owl / Latin Name: Ptilopsis Granti / Featuring Gandalf

Ashy-Faced Owl on perch — Ashy-Faced Owl / Latin Name: Tyto Glaucops / Featuring Neo

Tawny Owl on perch — Tawny Owl / Latin Name: Strix Aluco / Featuring Archimedes

Spectacled Owl on perch — Spectacled Owl / Latin name: Pulsatrix Perspicillata / Featuring Cedric

Snowy Owl on perch — Snowy Owl / Latin Name: Bubo Scandiacus / Featuring Neve

Great Grey Owl on perch — Great Grey Owl / Latin Name: Strix Nebulosa / Featuring Socrates

A long-eared owl on a perch — Long-Eared Owl / Latin Name: Asio Otus / Featuring Otis

Burrowing Owl - Coming Soon — Burrowing Owl / Latin Name: Athene Cunicularia / Featuring Digger

Little Owl on perch — Little Owl / Latin Name: Athene Noctua / Featuring Minerva (Mini)

Harris Hawk on perch — Harris Hawk / Latin Name: Parabuteo Unicinctus / Featuring Darwin

American Kestrel on perch — American Kestrel / Latin Name: Falco Sparverius / Featuring Horus

Blue and Gold Macaw on perch with green background — Blue & Gold Macaw / Latin name: Ara Ararauna / Featuring Hamish

Yellow-Crowned Amazon on perch with green background — Yellow Crowned Amazon / Latin Name: Amazona Oratrix / Featuring Beta

Two red-collared lorikeets on a perch — Red-Collared Lorikeet / Latin Name: Trichoglossus rubritorquis / Featuring Eliza & Amara

Castiel, one of our cockatiels — Cockatiel / Latin Name: Nymphicus Hollandicus / Featuring Castiel

Collage of our popular chicken, the Silkie Chicken and the Polish Chicken, side by side — Silkie Chicken and Polish Chicken / Latin Name: Gallus Domesticus / Featuring Doris and Freda

Reptiles

Reticulated Python wrapped around a log — Reticulated Python / Latin Name: Malayopython Reticulatus / Featuring Katniss

Dwarf Reticulated Python wrapped around a log — Dwarf Reticulated Python / Latin Name: Malayopython Reticulatus / Featuring Rue

Severus, our Burmese Python — Burmese Python / Latin Name: Python Bivittatus / Featuring Severus

MMexican Black Kingsnake wrapped around a log — Mexican Black Kingsnake / Latin Name: Lampropeltis Getula Nigrita / Featuring Lucifer

Brazilian Rainbow Boa wrapped around a log — Brazilian Rainbow Boa / Latin Name: Epicrates Cenchria / Featuring Aona

Boa Constrictor wrapped around a log — Boa Constrictor / Latin Name: Boa Constrictor / Featuring Muggle

Royal Python collage — Royal Python / Latin name: Python Regius / Featuring Amira (BEL), Alana (Albino), Adam (Banana Pied), Arabella (Standard), Azira (Purple Passion) and Athena (Mojave)

Spotted Python wrapped around a log — Spotted Python / Latin Name: Antaresia Maculosa / Featuring Spots

Green Tree Python wrapped around a log — Green Tree Python / Latin Name: Morelia Viridis / Featuring Tyrell

Grey Banded Kingsnake wrapped around a log — Grey-Banded Kingsnake / Latin Name: Lampropeltis Alterna / Featuring Rowena

Hognose Snake collage — Hognose Snake / Latin Name: Heterodon Nasicus / Featuring Seneca (Western Hognose) and Noodle (Standard Hognose)

Kenyan Sand Boa wrapped around a log — Kenyan Sand Boa / Latin Name: Gongylophis Colubrinus / Featuring Jasmine

Mandarin Rat Snake wrapped around a log — Mandarin Rat Snake / Latin Name: Euprepiophis Mandarinus / Featuring Yang

Corn Snake collage — Corn Snake / Latin Name: Pantherophis Guttatus / Featuring Yvaine (Gold Dust) and Kevin (Standard)

Egg-Eating Snake on a branch — Gans Egg Eater Snake / Latin name: Dasypeltis Gansi / Featuring Omelette

Blue Tegu on green table — Blue Tegu / Latin Name: Salvator Merianae / Featuring Thiago

Bearded Dragon on a log — Bearded Dragon / Latin Name: Pogona Vitticeps / Featuring Aegon

Northern Blue-Tongued Skink on a log — Northern Blue-Tongued Skink / Latin name: Tiliqua Scincoides / Featuring Kaida

A young Iguana on a log, surrounded by plants — Iguana / Latin name: Iguana Iguana / Featuring Tao (Blue) and Yugi (Albino)

Spiny Tailed Monitor on a log — Spiny-Tailed Monitor / Latin Name: Varanus Acanthurus / Featuring Caraxes

Uromastyx on a log — Uromastyx / Latin Name: Uromastyx Ornata / Featuring Imhotep

Giant Gecko on the hand of an employee — Giant Gecko / Latin Name: Rhacodactylus Leachianus / Featuring Littlefoot

Gargoyle Gecko on a log — Gargoyle Gecko / Latin Name: Rhacodactylus Auriculatus / Featuring Tango

Crested Gecko on a log — Crested Gecko / Latin Name: Correlophus Ciliatus / Featuring Targaryen

Leopard Gecko on a log — Leopard Gecko / Latin Name: Eublepharis Macularius / Featuring Parvati

Mossy Gecko on a log — Mossy Gecko / Latin Name: Mniarogekko Chahoua / Featuring Fungus

False Chameleon on a log — False Chameleon / Latin Name: Anolis Barbatus / Featuring Anton

Sulcata Tortoise on gravel floor — Sulcata Tortoise / Latin Name: Centrochelys Sulcata / Featuring Zola

Star Tortoise on gravel floor — Star Tortoise / Latin Name: Geochelone Elegans / Featuring Chilli

Red-Footed Tortoise on gravel floor — Red-Footed Tortoise / Latin Name: Chelonoidis Carbonarius / Featuring Eduardo

Hermann’s Tortoise on gravel floor — Hermann’s Tortoise / Latin name: Testudo hermanni / Featuring Elizabeth

Mammals

African Pygmy Hedgehog on a log — African Pygmy Hedgehog / Latin Name: Atelerix Albiventris / Featuring Anele

Skunk on a log — Striped Skunk / Latin Name: Mephitis Mephitis / Featuring Rey

Armadillo on a log — Armadillo / Latin name: Tolypeutes matacus / Featuring Wilson

A Sugar Glider on a log — Sugar Glider / Latin Name: Petaurus Breviceps / Featuring Byron

Chilchilla on a log — Chinchilla / Latin Name: Chinchilla Chinchilla / Featuring Melvin

Ferret on a log — Ferret / Latin Name: Mostela Putoreus Furo / Featuring Azriel

A tenrec inside a wooden tunnel — Lesser Hedgehog Tenrec / Latin Name: Echinops Telfairi / Featuring Dembe

A collage of our rabbits — Rabbit / Latin Name: Oryctolagus Cuniculus / Featuring Esme the Continental Giant Rabbit, Bonnie & Rebeka the Mini Rex Rabbits and Mirabel & Pepe the Lop Rabbits

2 guinea pigs on a tree stump — Guinea Pig / Latin Name: Cavia Porcellus / Featuring Dill-Weed & Thyme

2 Werewolf Guinea Pigs — Werewolf Guinea Pigs / Latin Name: Cavia Porcellus / Featuring Gremlin & Gollum

A Degu on a branch — Degu / Latin name: Octodon Degu / Featuring Marizza

Fancy Mice on a log — Fancy Mouse / Latin Name: Mus Musculus Domestica / Featuring Cornflake and Cocopops

Invertebrates

Emperor Scorpion / Latin Name: Pandinus Imperator / Featuring Orion

Vietnamese Forest Scorpion / Latin Name: Heterometrus Laoticus / Featuring Thing

African Giant Snail on a log — Giant African Snail / Latin Name: Achatina Fulica / Featuring Gary

Honduran Curly Haired Tarantula on a log — Honduran Curly-Haired Tarantula / Latin Name: Tliltocatl Albopilosum / Featuring Fluffball

Salmon Pink Bird Eater Tarantula on a log — Salmon Pink Bird Eater Tarantula / Latin Name: Lasiodora Parahybana / Featuring Thatch

Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula on a log — Chaco Golden Knee Tarantula / Latin Name: Grammostola Pulchripes / Featuring Carla

Chilean Rose Tarantula on a log — Chilean Rose Tarantula / Latin Name: Grammostola Rosea / Featuring Spinderella

Black Beauty Stick Insect on a log — Black Beauty Stick Insect / Latin Name: Peruphasma Schultei

Green Lime Stick Insects on a hand — Green Lime Stick Insect / Latin name: Diapherodes Gigantea

Sungaya Stick Insects on a grey surface — Sungaya Stick Insect / Latin name: Sungaya Inexpectata

Madagasgar Hissing Cockroach on a log — Madagasgar Hissing Cockroach / Latin Name: Gromphadorhina Portentosa

Giant Millipede on a log — Giant Millipede / Latin Name: Archispirotreptus Gigas

Amphibians

Giant African Bullfrog on a log — Giant African Bullfrog / Latin name: Pyxicephalus adspersus / Featuring Barry

Red Eyed Tree Frog sitting on a leaf stem — Red-Eyed Tree Frog / Latin Name: Agalychnis Callidryas

White Tree Frog on the hand of an Exotic Explorers employee — White's Tree Frog / Latin Name: Litoria Caerulea

Suriname Cane Toad / Latin Name: Rhinella Marina / Featuring Trevor

Amazon Milk Frog / Latin Name: Trachycephalus resinifictrix / Featuring Jurandir

Mossy Frog on a branch — Mossy Frogs / Latin name: Theloderma Corticale

Argentine Horned Frog collage — Argentine Horned Frogs / Latin name: Ceratophrys Ornata

2 Fire Salamanders on ground — Fire Salamander / Latin Name: Salamandra Salamandra / Featuring Sam and Norman

Tiger Salamanders on ground — Tiger Salamander / Latin Name: Ambystoma Tigrinum / Featuring Shiva

Our Commitment to Animal Welfare

At Exotic Explorers, the health, safety and dignity of every animal in our care are our highest priority.
Our mission is to inspire curiosity, compassion and respect for wildlife through engaging educational experiences, and we believe this begins with exemplary standards of animal welfare.

Respectful Care: All animals within our programme are treated as individual beings with unique needs, preferences and behaviours. We provide environments that promote comfort, enrichment and natural behaviours wherever possible.

Professional Husbandry: Our team follows evidence-based husbandry practices, including regular habitat maintenance, species-appropriate nutrition and structured enrichment. We continuously update our care protocols in line with current best practice and expert guidance.

Veterinary Oversight: Every animal receives routine health checks and preventative care from qualified veterinarians experienced in exotic and domestic species. Any concerns are addressed promptly to ensure their ongoing wellbeing.

Stress-minimised Interactions: Animals participate in educational sessions only when they are in suitable condition and temperament. We monitor behaviour closely and provide rest periods, rotation schedules and quiet spaces to ensure they are never overworked or exposed to undue stress.

Safe Transport: As a mobile education company, we take great care to ensure transport is safe, secure and designed to reduce stress. Transport containers and vehicles meet or exceed welfare standards and are monitored for temperature, ventilation and comfort.

Ethical Educational Practice: We aim to foster respect for wildlife, conservation and responsible ownership. Our presentations emphasise empathy and proper handling, and we never encourage behaviour that could compromise animal welfare.

Continuous Improvement: We are committed to ongoing training, professional development and review of our animal care practices. We seek to exceed legal requirements and uphold the highest welfare standards at all times.

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