The exotic animal trade is also difficult to track and contain. "We have a culture where we see someone else doing something and we think, 'oh if they're doing it, I can do it too,'" Mantilla told Insider. They aren't necessarily ready to take in ownership information, which can otherwise be hard to find.
They're on the app to watch animals do cute and funny things. One of the biggest problems, according to Stephanie Mantilla, a trainer with Curiosity Trained who worked as a zookeeper for 12 years, is that people who come to TikTok are ready to be entertained. Juno and Asha were both rescued from abusive owners. She's an animal transporter licensed by the US Department of Agriculture and frequently works with exotic animals. Wilson never set out to be TikTok-famous. Some of the most popular exotic pet accounts, like and have millions of followers. Dogs and cats proliferate, but so do videos of exotic animals like big cats and primates, as well as non-traditional pets like raccoons and squirrels. Today, Wilson has more than half a million TikTok followers and is one of many accounts famous for exotic animal content. That one accumulated more than 2 million views. She posted another video two days later of her second serval, Asha, leaping across a room. It was only her second TikTok, but the video of the wild cat holding on to her shoulders and nuzzling her head quickly racked up thousands of views. In January, Felicia Wilson posted a short video of herself and her African serval named Juno. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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