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Peet and PETA are optimistic Chimp Crazy can generate the same kind of interest for the Captive Primate Safety Act, a bill recently reintroduced in the U.S. House and Senate that seeks to prohibit ...
In Virunga National Park in the east of the country, the park authorities regularly confiscate chimpanzees from people keeping them as pets. [161] Outside their range, chimpanzees are popular as exotic pets despite their strength and aggression. Even in places where keeping non-human primates as pets is illegal, the exotic pet trade continues ...
Fatal Attractions is a recurring documentary series broadcast on Animal Planet.First aired in 2010, the show focused on humans who have kept animals as unconventional pets that have turned out to be dangerous and sometimes fatal.
The Great Ape Project (GAP), founded in 1993, is an international organization of primatologists, anthropologists, ethicists, and others who advocate a United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes that would confer basic legal rights on non-human great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans.
In 2017, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sued the Missouri Primate Foundation, alleging that chimpanzees at the foundation, including Tonka, were kept in unsanitary living ...
Before Haddix came to the Casey's compound, it went by the name Chimparty; Casey supplied chimps for children's birthday parties, lent them to movies and greeting card companies and bred them as ...
Shirley McGreal founded IPPL in 1973 while living in Thailand. The new organization took a protective and advocatory stance for the world's primates, questioning and investigating the practices of many organizations involved in import/export, pet trade, transportation, and experimentation, as well as those who dealt in NHPs illegally, such as smugglers and poachers.
In the 1997 movie “Buddy,” Rene Russo plays a wealthy, eccentric collector of wild animals. Hoarder might be a more fitting description. Chimpanzees are among the animals in her possession.