r/primatology

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?

Before I get made fun of or flamed, I'm assuming I sound really stupid because I'm not an expert at all I'm just curious so please don't be mean to me (Redditors have been very mean and nasty to me in the past I know how pretentious some of you can be) also, at this point I trust reddit more than googles AI and chatgpt so please don't bother me about just googling it or something and don't use AI to answer my question please! So I've heard people say that apes most likely won't evolve because there isn't any reason for them to like nothing threatening their species forcing them to become more intelligent than they are, but at the same time, many apes are endangered because of deforestation. I watched a video about a bonobo being able to translate bonobo "language" to humans with sign language which had me wondering, can't endangerment due to loss of habitat be a factor that forces a species to evolve? I also watched a video about chimps in the Congo rainforest acting highly intelligent, walking only on two feet, making spears, and wearing leaf masks while stealing from villages near the rainforest and I can only imagine what it's like trying to survive in the Congo rainforest even as a chimpanzee cause I mean it's one of the largest unexplored forests God knows what's down there. Anyways is there anything to my thought at all? Could deforestation force apes to become more intelligent or is this a stupid question?