Dornoch Festival Week kicks off with exotic animal rescue show

Published: 16:23, 05 August 2024

| Updated: 16:24, 05 August 2024

Dornoch Festival Week kicked off today with an exotic animal rescue show.

The Nairn-based charity Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue (SEAR) brought along a variety of invertebrates to the event held in the festival week marquee in Meadows Park.

Species on display included a bearded dragon lizard and an albino royal python.

Logan Mackay holds a bearded dragon lizard, named Mr Miyagi after the movie character in the Karate Kid franchise. The lizard is native to Australia.

Ellie Sutherland holds an albino royal python called Zeren. Fun fact - the python dislocates its jaws when eating.

SEAR staff helped children hold the invertebrates and shared fun facts about them including that the bearded dragon lizard has a “third eye” and that the albino royal python dislocates its jaws when it eats.

A Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue worker holds Zeren the albino royal python.

The event was held as part of Dornoch Festival Week.

SEAR was founded in 2010 and has since found new homes for well over 100 snakes, lizards and other species.

The festival week continues until Sunday. For further information on the events, visit the group’s Facebook page.

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