[Newticus]

It depends on your reason for keeping them. Some people keep rare and exotics to breed them. Some keep them as show pieces in a collection. Others are facinated by their unique or rare quality. I am not necessarily against any of these reasons, provided the rare animal comes to them in a legal way. I am strongly against wild caputre of rare animals so that they may be crowning jewels in a collection. If they are taken to help set up a breeding and conservation facility I don't see the problem. Especially because of what Magdalena has said. If a collector wants to pay alot for a captive bred animal, who cares?

Melanie