If you’ve ever fancied getting a pet that’s a bit more unusual than a dog, cat or hamster, you might want to adopt an animal from a zoo!

It can be cheaper and easier to adopt a zoo animal than to buy one! Plus, you can choose anything from a tiger to a meerkat.

You don't get to take the animal home but your adoption fee helps to keep your chosen animal fed and looked after. When you adopt you might get free tickets to see your animal plus pictures and newsletters.

Here are some of the zoos that you can adopt animals from:

Edinburgh Zoo

Chester Zoo

London Zoo

If you’d rather watch someone who has strange pets you should check out 'Mr Popper’s Penguins'. It’s a new film that stars Jim Carrey as a man who adopts a group of penguins!

Watch the trailer