Violeta, a young Mexican spider monkey, was poached and smuggled into California before being rescued by the Oakland Zoo. Handlers work daily to teach her socialization and natural behaviors. Many primates kept as pets experience significant suffering due to lack of their natural environment and family. The illegal pet trade is exacerbated by the portrayal of primates in social media and entertainment, promoting the removal of infants from their parents, leading to the injury and death of adult monkeys. California has laws banning the ownership of primates as pets.
Violeta, an 18-month-old Mexican spider monkey, was poached and smuggled into California. Handlers at the Oakland Zoo are teaching her essential monkey behaviors.
Colleen Kinzley states that keeping a monkey as a pet causes severe suffering due to lack of family and inability to behave normally.
The pet trade is driven by social media and entertainment, leading to the brutal killing of parental monkeys to capture babies for sale.
Kinzley emphasizes that an 'abnormal' life for primates, raised in captivity with humans, results in chronic stress and illness.
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