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In June 2023, BBC exposed a global online network of sadists who shared videos of baby long-tailed macaques being tortured by caretakers in Indonesia. There were many torture methods, from teasing the primates with baby bottles to killing them in blenders, sawing them in half, or cutting off their tails and limbs.
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 ...
Some macaque species being abused are taken from the wild where they are endangered. When sickening videos of cruelty have been highlighted in media reports , social-media giants point to their ...
The long-tailed macaque causes severe damage to parts of its range where it has been introduced because the populations grow unchecked due to a lack of predators. [16] On the island of Mauritius, they have created serious conservation concerns for other endemic species .
These long-tailed macaques, some as young as eight months old, were horrifically torn from the wild and subjected to months of brutal training designed to force them to dance for money in front of ...
The Milwaukee Zoo introduced its newest family member to the public, a baby Japanese Macaque monkey named Mai. ABC News shared a video of the adorable little one on Sunday, July 7th, and I could ...
The stump-tailed macaque has long, thick, dark brown fur covering its body, but its face and its short tail, which measures between 32 and 69 mm (1.3 and 2.7 in), are hairless. [5] Infants are born white and darken as they mature. [5] As they age, their bright pink or red faces darken to brown or nearly black and lose most of their hair. [5]
Sir David Attenborough describes how long-tailed macaques barter with tourists by stealing phones in the latest edition of Planet Earth.. The Planet Earth team has filmed the adapted behaviour of ...