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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 ...
In 2021, a US-based private “monkey haters” online group, where members paid to have baby monkeys tortured and killed on camera in Indonesia was closed down, but other extreme videos have ...
A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water. In another video clip, a person plays with the ...
Sarah Kite, co-founder of Action for Primates, said examples that film-makers carry out included: clamping an infant monkey’s body with pliers; using lit cigarettes to burn a baby monkey tied to ...
In 1992, one of the chimps owned by Casey bit off her husband's nose. Concerned about negative press coverage, Connie Casey started a nonprofit, Missouri Primate Foundation, while continuing to run Chimparty and selling primate pets. [10] The Missouri Primate Foundation took in adult chimps previously sold as pets or retired from show business.
A pet monkey is a monkey kept as a pet. Monkeys are beloved for their entertainment value, resemblance to humans, and human-like abilities, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but the practice of keeping monkeys as pets is criticized by primatologists and zoologists due to issues surrounding conservation , the animals' welfare, and public health and safety.
My Magic Pet Morphle (also known as Morphle) is an animated children's television series created in 2011. [2] [3] Produced by YouTube channel Morphle TV, which was acquired by Moonbug Entertainment in 2018 and announced in February 2019, the series premiered on Netflix on January 10, 2019. [4]
According to the Discovery Channel, they are "highly intelligent monkeys" and have "an exceptional level of intelligence." Animal Planet says , "These are some of the only tool-using wild monkeys ...