Originally Posted by
Amabala
Exotic Creature Handling is sold by the Weapons and Accessories vendors of the Hyrkanians, Wolves of the Steppes and Tamarin's Tigers in Khitai. I may be wrong, but I believe you need some faction rank to purchase them, so yes, basically you do need to be 80.
I was under the impression that you could also get Exotic Creature Handling from the game store, but since you can't see it, it's either premium only and you're F2P, available only for 80s and you can't see it yet, or just not sold there any more.