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“Three’s Company”

Japanese macaques, also known as snow monkeys.

Eric Kanigan

1) There is absolutely no ethical way to have a monkey as a pet.

2) Any social media account that owns monkeys should be blocked and reported immediately.

3) Dressing them up in clothing is quite literally torture

Primates have very complicated needs that cannot be met within a household. They are a lot like humans in the fact that they need a social community to be able to survive, however human caretakers cannot fill this role for them.

Also a lot of these accounts use cruel tactics to train their monkeys to be bipedal and to preform tricks. And all of these accounts contribute to illegal wildlife trade which is notorious for snatching infant monkeys away from their mothers which is traumatizing for literally everyone.

I also cannot stress enough how both physically and psychologically damaging it to force monkeys to wear diapers/clothing, it restricts their movement and can quite literally cause damage to their skin and pelvis. It is also just extremely uncomfortable and stressful for them I guarantee they are so miserable.

I've recently noticed an increase in well-meaning people sharing unethical primate memes.

Unfortunately, the primates in these memes were either taken directly from their habitat to be sold or their parents are breeders that were themselves taken from the wild.

Worse yet, when baby primates are taken from the wild often times their older relatives are poached and sold for meat.

This all contributes to the reason why the majority of primates are endangered.

Let's all do our part by thinking before sharing!

Mother and Son. Watercolor. Maurice Wilson (1914–1987)

this ones for all my babygirls. i see your comments ladies, and they make me smile.

through the years

I'm grateful that we have a script, but I'd like to see it on the SCREEN