[MUSIC PLAYING]
CHARLOTTE HORNSBY: Welcome to Pet Kingdom.
This is a family pet store.
We have all kinds of pets for family members.
Can you dance?
Yes.
We do have exotics, such as Ella the little capuchin
monkey right here.
Ella is three years old.
She likes to search the pockets.
There she found something.
In the state of Florida, to buy one of these as a pet, you
have to get an exotic pet license.
To get that for a capuchin monkey, it requires 1,000
hours working with that species.
ROBIN KOMAR: I'm the kennel manager.
Most of the ones that have fur are my responsibility.
And they're just my babies.
I love them.
I just understand them, and they understand me.
And when I walk in that door and all these little heads
popped up to see me, because I'm coming in the door, it's
just the best feeling in the world.
Are you hungry?
Come here, Nug.
Nug, come on, behave.
This is Nugget.
That's Maddie.
Maddie is the female.
She's older by one month.
At first, she was much more outgoing.
He was more the shy type.
Maddie always liked to kiss.
He's more standoffish.
And his favorite spot is in the crook of your arm
and the left side.
It has to be the left side.
He's just very particular.
CHARLOTTE HORNSBY: Kinkajous--
they're a little animal that lives in the rainforest in
Central and South America.
Their nickname is called honey bear.
Kinkajous are nocturnal.
They like to sleep during the day.
As soon as it starts to get dark outside, they're
all over the place.
Hey, want to go back to sleep now?
I think she wants to go back to sleep.
These are some babies that we're hand-feeding right now.
They're little blackheaded kites, which is a member of
the parrot family.
They're very vocal.
Right here we have a young rhinoceros iguana.
Danielle hand-feeds--
she's actually training him to stand up on his back legs for
a mealworm.
JEFF HORNSBY: You know, I've been raised with a chimpanzee
sitting in a high chair next to me growing up.
But right now, I think I get the most satisfaction out of
having a big monitor lizard that weighs 65, 70 pounds,
that has that dynamic wow factor, that's
puppy dog tame though.
CHARLOTTE HORNSBY: These are gibbons.
This one on the left with her tongue sticking out is Randy.
The other one is Harley--
the male and the female.
They're about 15 years old.
The actually are my personal animals and live at home with
me most of the time.
30 years ago, we didn't have all these exotics.
But just being animal lovers, gradually our first real
exotic, I guess, was a baby chimpanzee that we raised.
We've helped raise other primates.
So it kind of evolved.
-Uh oh.
ROBIN KOMAR: That's all right.
Get in.
In.
Get in.
In.
CHARLOTTE HORNSBY: Oh, every day is a challenge,
absolutely.