Is it legal to own a monkey in the UK?
Currently (see base of page), provided you have a licence from your local authority as specified by the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976 it is legal to own a monkey in the …
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Humans inherited their love of booze from their primate ancestors
Provided you believe in human evolution from primates as most people do, it seems pretty certain that humans have inherited their love of alcohol from their primate ancestors who gorged on fruit …
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Sugar-mad monkeys of Thailand take over. Echoes of Planet of the Apes.
NEWS AND COMMENT- LOPBURI, THAILAND: In echoes of a prequel to the well-known film the Planet of the Apes the macaque monkeys of Lopburi in Thailand have broken out of their temple …
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Planet of the Apes NOW! Enraged monkeys kill 250 dogs and attack people
NEWS AND COMMENT-MAHARASHTRA, INDIA: In Majalgaon and Lavul village in the state of Maharashtra, India, enraged monkeys are taking revenge on the street dogs by carrying them to the top of trees …
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World’s smallest monkey – Pygmy Marmoset, Western Thailand
“The western pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) is a marmoset species, a very small New World monkey found in the northwestern Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.” – Wikipedia. The lifespan …
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Swarm of starving wild monkeys fight over food during coronavirus pandemic in India
This is shocking really. It is sad. Surely this is a breakdown in the human-animal relationship? It was brought on by the Covid pandemic as there are no tourists to feed the …
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Red-handed tamarins speak like their rivals to avoid conflict
Dr. Jacob Dunn of Anglia Ruskin University, the co-author of a study on red-handed tamarins, published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, discovered that when monkeys of this species are spotted …
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Woman climbs into spider monkey enclosure to feed them Hot Cheetos
It looks like this woman wanted to make a short Instagram video for her social page and took a big risk. Spider monkeys are quite small but dangerous. Monkeys are stronger than …
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