![]() Owners often attribute human qualities to their pets describing them as thinking, emotional, and creative. Recent surveys of pet owners have found that human attachment to their pets (animals kept within a domestic setting for personal interest, entertainment, or companionship ) plays an important role in their lives as evidenced by how they refer to their pets–as friends, children or fur babies, and members of the family. Advertisement campaigns focusing on disease transmission and legal consequences and a federal ban on pet primate ownership are two avenues to pursue to end the ownership of pet primates in the United States. Primates do not make good pets and even when captive-bred, pet primates impact the conservation of their wild counterparts. ![]() There are several potential drivers for the primate pet trade, including media influence, fashion/status, and profitable breeding though these are not mutually exclusive. The median price was $3,800 though price was highly variable, even for the same taxa. Almost two-thirds of the pet primates for sale were male (Chi-Square = 16.056, df = 1, P = 0. We recorded 551 pet primates for sale between June 2019-June 2020, with 69.1% platyrrhines, 21.6% strepsirrhines, and 8.9% catarrhines. We used Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit tests to compare whether the number of male and female pet primates for sale and the number of different age categories of pet primates for sale differed from equality and Spearman Correlation to examine associations between price and size and price and supply. We recorded the type of primate for sale, sex, age, location, and price. We collected data from six exotic pet-trade websites twice a month for 12 months. Most research on pet primates occurs in habitat countries and little is known about these pets in the United States. While dogs and cats are the most common type of pet, there are an estimated 15,000 pet primates in the United States and the demand for exotic pets in general has been rising. If passed, humans would no longer be able to attend an exotic-animal auction in another state and bring home a “pet” monkey or order a monkey online from out of state.Our research goal was to investigate the primate pet trade in the United States. Have you heard of the Captive Primate Safety Act? It would outlaw the purchase and transportation of primates across state lines and would prohibit dangerous direct contact between them and the public. It’s too late to help Travis or Buck, but you can join PETA in helping to secure a better future for other “pet” primates. Even before Travis ripped a woman’s face off more than a decade ago, it was clear that such attacks are inevitable so long as people continue to treat chimpanzees like Chihuahuas. PETA had already cautioned law enforcement of this very danger, warning state authorities that she had created a ticking time bomb by engaging in direct contact with a dangerous ape. She had deprived the highly social animal of the companionship of other chimpanzees and kept him as a “pet” for years before he mauled her daughter. Those who can’t live in nature need to be socialized with other chimpanzees and kept in secure enclosures that offer plenty of environmental complexity and that will protect them from being shot and killed after they unsurprisingly lash out.ĭeputies from the sheriff’s office were reportedly called to Brogoitti’s home after Buck was allowed out of his cage. Chimpanzees don’t belong in human households. He’s free to roam the house, which is not only reckless but also apparently illegal. ![]() In this photo, which PETA obtained through a public records request from the state of Oregon, Buck is seen sitting and eating on a bed.
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