Pictures: Amazing Animals preserve in St. Cloud

A sloth named Linnaeus enjoys a hibiscus flower as snack at Amazing Animals. Sloths are one of the over 100 exotic animals that lives at the animal preserve in in St. Cloud, Florida. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Amazing Animals offers personalized private up-close tours for guests by reservation only. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Amazing Animals' Vice President, Kylie Reynolds, holds a champagne-colored skunk named Champ while doing a wellness examination. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The Klumb family, visiting from Canyon, Texas, take a personalized tour of Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Champ, a champagne colored skunk, was originally a pet that was surrendered and now has a permanent home at the preserve. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A cottontop tamarin named Mary Kate looks down from a perch in her enclosure. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Cottontop tamarins are native to small forested areas in Northwestern Colombia. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Cottontop tamarins are among the most endangered primates in the world due to extensive deforestation of their natural habitat. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Kylie Reynolds, shows off a Geoffroy cat, a small wild cat native to the southern and central regions of South America. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A fennec fox is cautiously on watch at the preserve. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The fennec fox is the smallest fox species in the world, typically weighing 2 to 3 pounds as an adult, and lives in sandy desert regions of North Africa. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Freddie, a Virginia opossum, suffers from dry eyes and receives eye drops daily. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial found in North America. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The Klumb family, visiting from Canyon, Texas, feed the capybara. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A 9-week-old capybara takes a leaf of lettuce from Kaitlyn Klumb during the encounter. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Capybara are the largest living rodents on earth and are semi-aquatic mammals native to South America. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The 9-week-old capybara enjoys getting belly rubs. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The fox enclosure at Amazing Animals is home to two marble foxes. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

This marble fox was formerly a pet and is now in permanent care at the preserve. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Marble fox were bred by humans and is a hybrid caused by mating a red fox with a silver fox. Unfortunately pet owners are typically not prepared for the commitment it takes to care for the exotic pet. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A ring-tailed lemur eats from a bowl of fruit at Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Ring-tailed lemurs are highly social and native to southwestern Madagascar. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Two ring-tailed lemurs are currently cared for at Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

An owl monkey comes down for a snack and a wellness check. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The owl monkey is the only true nocturnal monkey and are threatened by habitat loss and pet trade. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

This owl monkey shares a habitat enclosure with a couple of Patagonian cavies at Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A Patagonian cavy enjoys an apple as a snack. These herbivorous animals closest living relatives are guinea pigs and the capybara.(Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A bobcat is on the lookout. In Florida, the bobcat lives in the forest, swamps, and hammock land and weighs approximately 35 pounds as an adult .(Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A goat greets a visitor in the barnyard area at the preserve. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The barnyard is one of the areas where you can get up close and personal and pet some of the animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A curious miniature donkey likes getting some attention. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

An alpaca enjoys some shade by the side of the barn. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

This Vietnamese pot-bellied pig sniffs around the barnyard. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A barred owl named Archie lives at Amazing Animals after he could not be returned to the wild due to an eye injury. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The macaw and parrot enclosure becomes a party when visitors stop by. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

African Spurred Tortoises that were surrendered pets are also at home at Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

In the wild African Spurred Tortoise can live up to 70 years and up to 100 in captivity.  (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

African Spurred Tortoises that were surrendered pets live at Amazing Animals in St. Cloud, Florida: Monday, May 8, 2023. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A shy three-banded armadillo gets examined. The small animal is native to Brazil and is one of the two armadillo species that can roll into a ball. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Linnaeus, a two-toed sloth, hangs out for a visit. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Linnaeus, is one of three of the two toed sloths that live at the preserve. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The sloths have a choice between an indoor enclosure or an outside one that is connected by a small tunnel. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A visit with Linnaeus is a very popular encounter during the tour at Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The fire pit area at Amazing Animals. The animal preserve also hosts special sunset and evening events. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A look out over the grounds and enclosures at Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

The reptile room at Amazing Animals. The preserve started as a home for displaced reptiles and continued to grow and take other animals that needed to be cared for. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A bearded dragon gestures to the camera in the reptile room. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

You can get hands-on with some of the residents, like this ball python. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

A pine snake in the reptile room at Amazing Animals. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

Amazing Animals Vice President Kylie Reynolds talks about efforts to protect eastern indigo snake in Florida. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

There is a small gift shop in the reptile room. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)

If you decide you want to visit Amazing Animals a reservation is required to enter at a designated time for a tour. (Rich Pope, Orlando Sentinel)