Pet primates on social media
Let Primates Be Primates | Lincoln Park Zoo
Unfortunately, these appearances have the potential to negatively impact both individual animal welfare and the conservation of entire species. While primates ...
Monkey Abuse: The Cruelty Behind Cute TikTok Videos
Discover the cruel truth behind cute macaque monkey videos on social media, and find out what you can do to stop this abuse.
Pet primates on social media: the reality behind the screen
SMACC has found that macaques, usually pig-tailed and long-tailed macaques, are the most common species of primates being kept as pets in social ...
Social media users warned over 'pet monkey' videos - BBC
Matt Lovatt, park director at Trentham Monkey Forest near Stoke-on-Trent, said such footage of primates was “not something we should celebrate”.
Keeping Primates As Pets | RSPCA
Primates are intelligent, social, wild animals and don't make good pets. Find out more about why these animals are not good pets to have.
The illegal pet trade is decimating Africa's primates. Yet social media companies are enabling this trade. Sign to help end this cruel trade.
PAP0031 - Evidence on Primates as Pets - UK Parliament Committees
Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre has been rescuing, rehabilitating, and re-homing monkeys and apes from the UK pet trade since 1989. No other organization in UK ...
The Cruelty You Don't See: The suffering of pet macaques for social ...
Think again. Macaques are being abused as pets on social media, and social media platforms are failing to protect them, animal experts warn.
How Social Media Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade
Images of chimpanzees and other species appear cute, but they may actually depict animals in dangerous and unhealthy situations.
Keeper Connection: Primates, the Pet Trade, and Social Media
The primate pet trade is the transaction of live primates (monkeys, ape, and prosimians) into the care of humans outside of accredited zoos or ...
Social Media Contexts Moderate Perceptions of Animals - PMC
This study found evidence to suggest that people moderate their discussions on human-animal interactions based on the social network they are in.
Monkey abuse: the cruelty behind social media videos
Macaque monkeys are bathed, dressed, and 'rescued' for social media content. Unfortunately, behind these supposedly cute videos, ...
Global online trade in primates for pets - ScienceDirect.com
Unregulated wildlife trade is a major threat to wildlife conservation worldwide (Cardoso et al., 2021; Shirey and Lamberti, 2011). One in every four wild animal ...
Exploring Social Media's Role in Primate Protection - Lincoln Park Zoo
Lincoln Park Zoo has been at the forefront of research exploring how images of primates have affected the way people feel about them.
Red flags: how to spot primate cruelty on social media
Primates should not be kept captive in domestic environments, and should only ever be kept in captivity in the context of animal rescue, rehabilitation or ...
New report shines light on the suffering of pet macaques - Born Free
Thousands of macaques and other primates are also cruelly captured form the wild or bred in captivity, shipped around the world and kept as pets ...
Investigating the Extent and Nature of the Primate Pet Trade on TikTok
With the online wildlife trade and the demand for viral videos increasing, the trade in primates on TikTok is becoming more prevalent.
Chimpanzees are not pets, no matter what social media tells you
Social media needs to recognise that putting exotic animals in a human context isn't cute and reflects animal abuse.
#PrimatesAreNotPets: A social media animal welfare campaign – ScIU
Primatologists, animal welfare activists, and conservationists are pushing to bring attention to the illegal pet trade and the devastation that it wrecks on ...
Reducing the primate pet trade: Actions for primatologists - PMC
This commentary emerged from a panel presentation at the International Primatological Society Congress in Nairobi, Kenya, 2018.