The Miami Rare Bird Farm was a seven acre tourist attraction and breeding farm that was active from 1938 to 1961. Owned by Alton Freeman,[1] the farm bought, bred, and sold a variety of common and exotic animals throughout its existence.
The Miami Rare Bird Farm offered animals for purchase as pets, zoo exhibits, and even as an astronaut. The farm was known for "the world's weirdest menu" required to feed the animals, but also that the tourism was "just a sideline" to the real business, selling animals.[1] The farm sold squirrel and spider monkeys to Fejervary Park to be used in their Monkey Island.[2] Ringtail monkeys, woolly monkeys, and a baby ocelot were sold in the local newspaper.[3][4] Plenty of profit was still made by the tourism, but the farm was most known for their animals who went on to become famous.