Reposted from @apealliance Harmful images of primates include the ones listed on the “report” section of our previous infographic, for example primates in clothes, pet primates, and primates being touched by humans outside of a reputable sanctuary setting. The captive primates you see in these images are often illegally captured from the wild for their use as photo props, in roadside zoos/"safaris", fake sanctuaries, or for the pet trade. Adults are often killed to obtain these baby primates, either as “collateral damage” when defending their babies or to sell as bushmeat. It is estimated that in chimpanzees up to 10 adults are killed to obtain one baby. When a female primate is killed, her potential for more babies, and her babies’ future offspring and so on is taken away. In slow-reproducing species such as great apes, each individual taken out of the population has a huge impact on the population’s stability. If they are not taken from the wild, the primates are often obtained from cruel breeders with conditions comparable to puppy mills. Once the baby primates are taken, they sometimes have their teeth removed to prevent them from injuring people when biting. This can cause painful lifelong health issues for the primates. Once they are too large or strong to be handled safely, they are either killed, put in warehouses with terrible conditions, or sold as research subjects Pet/photo prop/roadside zoo and "safari" primates are often malnourished, kept without members of their own species, and suffer from mental illnesses such as PTSD, depression, and severe anxiety due to their mistreatment. Being too close to primates makes it easy for zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 to pass between humans and primates. By getting too close to an ape and/or not wearing a mask, you could kill them just from passing on a common cold. #CruelNotCute https://www.instagram.com/p/CMp2xpDhZ5n/?igshid=izgzus4mw2sq
