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Videos of monkeys being tortured or abused have been commonly uploaded to social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook. [1] [4] According to a September 2021–May 2023 study by Asia for Animals’ Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC), videos by pet macaque owners had a total of 12.05 billion views online, with 12 percent of these videos involving intentional physical torture ...
Some macaque species being abused are taken from the wild where they are endangered. When sickening videos of cruelty have been highlighted in media reports , social-media giants point to their ...
Furthermore, it is prevalent in spider monkeys, [1] wild Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) and many other primates. [11] In basically all major primate taxa, aggression is used by the dominant males when herding females and keeping them away from other males. [1] In hamadryas baboons, the males often bite the females' necks and threaten them. [12]
When allowed to socialize by putting another macaque in the cage or not putting them in a cage, SA levels in macaques decrease. Results indicate that SA is a form of redirected social aggression. [45] SA is related to frustration and social status, especially in macaques that have an intermediate dominance rank. [46]
Rescuing an animal from abuse, neglect, or, in some cases, euthanasia can change your life, and theirs, too. Mya is a beautiful red Macaw parrot who lost her toes and part of one of her wings when ...
A plan to build a massive monkey-breeding facility that could eventually house 30,000 long-tailed macaques in a small Georgia city has sparked a multipronged legal battle pitting residents against ...
Iain Connor, a partner in Pinsent Masons, similarly said that the photographer could claim they had "put the camera in the hands of the monkey so [they had] taken some creative steps and therefore own the copyright," and that "if it's an animal that presses the button, it should be the owner of the camera that owns the copyright to that photo."
A large national survey by the Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies found a "substantial overlap between companion animal abuse and child abuse" and that cruelty to animals "most frequently co-occurred with psychological abuse and less severe forms of physical child abuse." [40]