Dangerous Wild Animals - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition dangerous-wild-animals

Definition :

Dangerous Wild Animals, any animal of a kind for the time being specified in the a Dangerous Wild Animals Act, 1976, Sch., s. 7(4) (UK)

The kinds of animals so specified includes most species of non-domesticated cattle, goats and sheep, wild dogs and horses, marsupials, monkeys, lemurs and apes, sloths, armadillos, anteaters, porcupines, pandas, badgers, raccons, civets, walruses, seals and sealions, aarduarks, antelopes, wild cats and members of the cat family, gazelles, camels, monkeys, crocodiles and alligators, dangerous snakes, dangereus spiders, giraffes hippopotami, hyenas, elephants, rhinoceri, ostriches, tapires, emus, bears, cassowaries and pronghorns, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 396, p. 194.