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What is wrong with people?

It's just sad how much clothing they put on their monkeys. It's not just pants or a diaper cover with a little shirt - It's a whole dang outfit. I looked through this account and they apparently have two spider monkeys and they make videos where the woman pretends to be the voice of the female spider and she plays out a whole scene with them. It's bizarre! This poor female is restricted by all this clothing. What makes people think they should get a border baby and dress it up like a human? There are tons of videos on this account. I tried to screenshot one of the not only ugly but most restrictive looking outfit.

u/LaLa0722 — 1 day ago
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Monkey Minea, Chamrouen(spelling?), et al.

I have some screenshots of a couple in Southeast Asia who have been torturing and abusing infant macaques for I don’t know how long. Anyone who knows who they are know that they treat these poor little animals worse than a Boy Mom Mother in Law.

Some of these screenshots feature underweight and severely psychologically damaged infant monkeys. The monsters who bought them are visible in the photos as well. The video I’m really relying on could be damning information because it shows a mostly clear view of a license plate on a motor scooter. The very first letter on the plate is partially obscured but not entirely and I’m sure it’s an “L”.

Am I wasting my time posting this because I know authorities over there can be useless when it comes to these types of social media sites.

I am including all the screenshots in this post and am hoping that maybe something can be done.

ETA: I cannot add the license plate screenshot, but I’m willing to pm it to someone who might be able to assist this situation.

u/MouseAnon16 — 1 day ago
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Where is Boo? The Lies and Cover Ups Continue- Over Three Years and Counting

https://reddit.com/link/1tim5o1/video/73ndtq2epa2h1/player

This owner and his partner could have done the right and ethical thing many years ago and given up their monkeys to a legitimate sanctuary. Instead, their stubborn egos ensured that all three of their monkeys would suffer physically, mentally, emotionally. One so much so that his mental illness seems pretty much irreversible. And they continue to plead with their delusional fan base to confront the 'haters' like us on this subreddit.

Truly no sense of shame or guilt whatsoever for what they have done and continue to do with their monkeys. Continuing to highlight the physical and mental dysfunctions of this owner's monkeys is not 'hate,' it's educating the public about the extraordinary damages done to pet primates exploited for profit.

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u/Loser_Baby_19 — 2 days ago
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Tourists gaslighting themselves after meeting a tribes future meal. For context tribes eat the mothers & then raise the babies until they are old enough to cook. Yet this woman decided to get some social media clout off of a babies suffering.

u/Bulky_Annual_4554 — 4 days ago
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Self-Reflection

I joined this sub because I genuinely care about primates, but the comment sections here are getting impossible to ignore. Every time a video gets posted of a monkey being used for street entertainment or kept as a pet in Asia or Africa, the comments instantly turn into a racist cesspool. People start calling entire countries "barbaric," saying "those cultures" have no empathy, and losing their minds over bushmeat.
But if we actually care about the sheer volume of monkeys suffering, the West is doing way worse on an industrial scale. We just sanitize it behind closed doors.
Look at the actual numbers:
- The US alone keeps over 105,000 monkeys in research labs every single year. We are talking painful biomedical testing, toxicology stuff, and neurological experiments funded by Western tax dollars and big pharma.
- Western demand is so massive that the US imports around 20,000 to 35,000 monkeys (mostly macaques) every year just to feed these lab pipelines.
- Thousands more spend their entire lives behind bars in Western zoos for human entertainment, wrapped up in a nice "conservation" marketing bow.

It’s a massive double standard. A poor street performer trying to make a living is labeled an uneducated animal abuser, but a Western scientist in a sterile lab coat keeping thousands of monkeys in tiny metal cages gets a free pass because it's "science." Abuse is abuse, and we should call it out everywhere. But calling Black and Brown people "savages" while completely ignoring the corporate, factory-scale torture happening in our own backyards isn't activism. It’s just xenophobia masked as moral superiority. If we want to actually free the monkeys, we need to look at the systems causing the most harm worldwide—and that starts in the West🙄

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u/free-everything — 4 days ago
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Tell congress to stop the cruel importation of monkeys for experimentation

Two young macaques died a slow, agonizing death at a Florida biomedical facility when staff left them in a room that reached 104 degrees. Weeks later, another monkey was trapped in a shipping crate and abandoned in a biohazard waste dumpster for five days without food or water.

These aren't accidents—they're symptoms of a broken system. Nearly 100,000 primates were imported for lab testing from 2021-2024, fueling overcrowding, illegal trafficking, and dangerous disease risks to workers and communities (tuberculosis, herpes B virus).

I started a petition asking the House Ways and Means Committee to pass H.R. 8471—the PRIMATE Act—which would ban most primate imports for experimentation. Intelligent beings shouldn't spend their lives suffering in laboratory cages.

If this matters to you too, consider signing and sharing. These primates can't speak for themselves—we have to.

Anyone else think it's time we stopped importing animals for testing?

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u/Love_dogs3 — 4 days ago
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BREAKING NEWS FROM EGYPT (Read body Text)

Three baby chimpanzees were recently discovered heavily sedated and hidden inside luggage at Cairo Airport alongside trafficked reptiles, in an alleged smuggling attempt.

Chimpanzees are highly intelligent, emotional animals who belong with their families in the wild — not drugged, terrified, and transported as commodities.

Behind every wildlife trafficking case is immense suffering:

• babies taken from their mothers

• animals injured or killed during capture

• high mortality during transport

• long-term psychological trauma for survivors

The illegal wildlife trade is a global conservation and welfare crisis, fuelled by demand for exotic pets and rare animals. For now these little babies have found a safe place at Alexandria Zoo, but it goes without saying their lives have been turned upside down and undoubtedly they will never be able to be returned to the wild.

Please never support the exotic pet trade, and help raise awareness of the devastating cruelty behind it.

Wild animals belong in the wild. 🐒💔

u/Bulky_Annual_4554 — 4 days ago
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I want you to reasonably explain how I'm wrong about wanting to get a baby monkey as a pet

I want to adopt a little baby monkey with little to no autonomy at all, and are extremely dependant of me, that needs me to change their little diapers, bottlefeed with milk and baby formula, that cries and throws tantrum every single minute because I'm the only thing their little universe spins around.

I really, seriously want to adopt a baby monkey after watching several baby monkey videos. I know just for saying this I'm in the wrong in your books, and I indeed also want to get them neutered and their teeth shaved, on top of vaccinations and such. Yes, i know is wrong, but SO? There's a lot of wrongful things that are actively getting defended in this world, a guy who wants a little baby monkey won't make it worse because it's not like the monkey mother already been killed by a farmer or held captive by a breeder.

I already looked up for which species I would consider, there's a native species in my country that I personally consider because of their small size.

(yes, I know all the crap behind them, you don't need me to reassure me on it because I'm already aware and I couldn't give a f about it), here's some examples of the very exact thing that I want.

https://youtu.be/F8dmGPp6DBE?si=_gPaPWMjEcB9x3xX

https://youtu.be/2qFJHnZVPtw?si=8ZXSVMLFrKEVls81

https://youtu.be/ydKYNKmHVsg?si=Nc2TDXUVjw7fDnSm

https://youtu.be/VRl7TSSn-RQ?si=1qPMD7_kryz41aKJ

u/Soft-Artist-9440 — 6 days ago
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Missty Flower Monkeys and her extremely stressed, overweight capuchins.

Was just made aware of this horrible woman in her McMansion with her three captive capuchins -- Toby, Angelika, and Russel.

All three monkeys exhibit severe signs of stress -- stereotypical rocking, self-holding, constant submission gestures, self-biting. They wear diapers and human clothes 24/7. They're brought around human babies and small human children, and they live with THREE DOGS.

Unless I'm severely mistaken about capuchin health, all three of them are quite overweight.

The absolute arrogance that this insane, evil woman can steal these creatures and infantilize them and terrorize them for their entire fucking lives. Primate owners are a special breed of evil.

u/Yucyon — 5 days ago
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One of the many reasons Why pet macaques should be banned (READ BODY TEXT)

In this video is a baby macaque from asia that was named Rio. When he got older his owner could no longer handle him so he looked for a person to rehome Rio too. Rio's owner ended up rehoming him to one of the most famous monkey tortures ever. Rio was brutally beaten & even had his tail cut off with a hatchet. Rio's life ended in a bucket of water which was where he drowned. Rio's final momments were spent wondering why the large species he learned to trust ended up taking his life.

u/Bulky_Annual_4554 — 6 days ago