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Scotland’s Wild Animal Backyard Boom | Aberdeen News
Scotland’s backyard wildlife is getting seriously wild — with ostriches, wild boars, camels, and even venomous snakes like Gila Monsters and Gaboon vipers now roaming private properties. A new map from charity Born Free reveals a surge in exotic animal ownership, especially in Dumfries and Galloway, Aberdeenshire, and Angus. One Aberdeenshire estate hosts nine ostriches, while Castle Douglas has forty wild boars behind fences — and a collector licenses twenty exotic pets, including alligators and deadly snakes. Despite a 1976 law meant to curb this, the number of dangerous animals in private…
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