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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 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 ...
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.
Before the chimps' arrival, the center housed five other chimpanzees born at the Missouri facility and sold as pets, including Tammy's son. Thus, the new arrivals were able to meet siblings and other family members for the first time. [28] Connor, the chimp rented out for Hallmark greeting cards, was diagnosed with advanced bladder cancer and died.
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.
Chimpanzees are among the animals in her possession. ... A real-life horror show about keeping chimpanzees as pets. Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune ... But that’s 30 years ago and I have changed and ...
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.
It’s been just over two years since Tonka arrived at Save the Chimps, a 150-acre parcel of protected land where 222 apes born in captivity have come to live out their retirement.