The Tangerine Honduran Milk Snake will be one of the many exotic reptiles featured at the conservation and rescue center. Photo: Great Lakes Zoological Society
It sounds like a child’s dream and a parent’s nightmare: a trip to a zoo where you can bring home one of the cuddly reptiles.
That’s the plan for the Great Lakes Zoological Society’s World of Discovery Conservation and Rescue Center set to open in September in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The center will have exhibits, education programs for kids and a store for all of your reptile husbandry needs.
It’s not alone in giving exotic species a home in the Great Lakes region. The Wilds in southeastern Ohio has been a 10,000-acre sanctuary for endangered animals since 1991.
The new indoor zoo will be full of reptiles, amphibians, fish and birds, many rescued. While some will stick around the center for exhibits, others will be available for adoption.
Where else can you catch up on the latest in monitor lizard news and bring home a new milk snake?
This program may have flaws allowing the adoptees to recycle the exotic species as sales for profit and/or relocating them loose to unwanted places.