In recent years, pet experts have raised a wide variety of pets, which has refreshed people's understanding of pets. Various "magical" animals have appeared one after another: raccoons, ball pythons, chinchillas, geckos, flower rats, etc. People are willing to try to raise anythi

In recent years, pet experts have raised a wide variety of pets, which has refreshed people's understanding of pets. Various "magical" animals have appeared one after another: raccoons, ball pythons, chinchillas, geckos, flower rats, etc. People are willing to try to raise anything that can be kept alive.

Among these novel pets, macaques can definitely occupy a place. Are macaques suitable to be kept as pets at home?

The fictitious "Japanese Stone Monkey"

In fact, monkeys cannot be kept as pets. The hidden dangers of raising monkeys are very high. The owners are likely to have been deceived by pet sellers, and raising monkeys is an illegal act.

Many pet owners think that their pets are "Japanese stone monkeys", and sellers also promote the selling point of "Japanese stone monkeys" as being native to Japan. They are small, docile, easy to raise, and not easy to get sick. Adult "Japanese stone monkeys" "It can only grow to about 5 pounds, but in fact this kind of propaganda method has constituted deception.

Sellers will sell ordinary macaques or Japanese macaques as "Japanese stone monkeys"

In fact, Japanese stone monkeys do not exist at all, and macaques generally only They live in tropical and subtropical areas, and Japan is the northernmost point where wild macaques are distributed. Only Japanese macaques live here. my country has more species of macaques than Japan. In addition to three kinds of golden monkeys, there are also common macaques, Tibetan macaques and Japanese macaques. macaque.

So there is no such thing as Japanese stone monkey. Sellers use ordinary macaques and Japanese macaques as stone monkeys for sale. You must know that adult male macaques can grow to about 23 pounds, and adult females can also grow to about 20 pounds. The big "stone monkey" is ultimately just a dream.

Special viruses and pathogenic bacteria can be transmitted between macaques and humans

Monkeys, like humans, belong to the order of primates, which includes a total of 570 species of organisms. Genetic similarities allow viruses that infect primates to be transmitted between monkeys and humans. For example, the herpes B virus found in monkeys is a virus unique to monkeys and can be transmitted through contact. The fatality rate in severe cases is as high as 85%.

Mild monkeys carrying this type of virus hardly show any symptoms, and this virus is very scary to humans, because humans have not evolved antibodies to resist this type of virus during the evolution process, which makes ordinary people Viruses have become very deadly, as was the case with SARS and bird flu in the past.

Monkey viruses can cause death, and viruses that reproduce in humans are equally dangerous to other primates.

Twenty-four years ago, Professor Griffin of Emory University accidentally stuck macaque excrement on his eyes while studying macaques. , was infected with a monkey virus and died of the viral infection two days later.

Similarly, viruses or pathogenic bacteria in humans are equally dangerous to other primates. More than ten years ago, a chimpanzee research center in East Africa experienced a mass death of chimpanzees. After investigation, the cause was finally found. It was an outbreak of viral influenza in a residential area near the research center, which led to the mass death of the orangutans.

So keeping monkeys as pets is very dangerous.

A monkey with a naughty and bad temper

Although monkeys look very cute in appearance and have far higher IQ than other animals, monkeys are really not suitable as pets because monkeys have never been domesticated by humans and have only been trained by humans. Monkeys will not become better just because they are in the same room with humans, and don't imagine that you can know the temperament of monkeys well.

There is a big difference between domestication and training. After a long period of time, primitive humans have domesticated a few animals, found more docile animals among wild animals to reproduce, and domesticated wild animals after several generations.

These include pigs, cows, sheep, dogs and other animals. These animals can live in peace with humans and can even help humans in production and labor. But monkeys have not been domesticated by humans.

Human beings can only train farmed monkeys, and the effect of training is uncertain and random. It is impossible to artificially change the habits of wild animals. Monkeys are likely to return to wild aggression at some point. Lord, this behavior is uncontrollable.

Around the 1990s, herders in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia killed female wolves with cubs and raised wolf cubs to guard the sheep. In the subsequent process, the wolves gradually returned to their wild nature and attacked the sheep. This shows that training cannot be stopped. Live the nature of wild animals.

Wild monkeys have not been domesticated and changed for several generations. Monkeys kept at home are equivalent to laying hidden dangers. Monkeys can pose danger to humans at any time.

Pet monkeys will not always be cute

Monkeys, like humans, will also go through puberty. During the growth process, they will secrete hormones and transition from sub-adult to adult. When transitioning to adulthood, monkeys in this period will have a very irritable temperament, and The monkey face will become longer and wider, becoming more and more ugly, and will not always maintain the cute appearance when it was young.

Monkeys are greedy by nature, and their joys, angers, sorrows and joys are very obvious. If they are not satisfied, serious consequences will occur. For example, in Thailand's Monkey City Lop Buri , due to the epidemic, the number of tourists has dropped significantly, resulting in a significant reduction in food intake. The monkeys are acting recklessly in the city. , rob stores, and even break into homes and hurt people. Monkeys are not suitable as pets at all.

Monkeys are very energetic and it is unrealistic to raise them at home.

Monkeys are different from cats and dogs. They are very energetic and will wreak havoc if there is no way to release their energy.

In the wild environment, each monkey group has a dozen to dozens of members. They have to move in a 3.4 square kilometers of forest every day, walking at least 3 kilometers, and spend one-tenth of their time every day taking care of it. The hair catches lice, but none of these behaviors are possible among owners.

Monkeys who have nowhere to release their energy will suddenly attack their owners. Monkeys have a very long lifespan. Some monkeys can live up to fifty years. In these decades, whether to abandon or continue to raise them is a question.

This is similar to pet foxes, because foxes are energetic and are not suitable as pets. This has also led to foxes becoming the pets with the highest abandonment rate.

Keeping monkeys as pets is actually a disguised form of abuse.

Many people keep monkeys as pets, but they don’t really love monkeys. Most owners are impulsive and want their pet monkeys to be one of their luxury goods to show off, thinking that no one else has one. , is the best.

Abnormal market demand will give birth to a new profession. Many people keep pet monkeys, and then some people will go to the forest to capture baby monkeys for sale, or establish illegal underground monkey breeding sites.

More than ten years ago, there was a craze in Europe for raising Asian loris as pets, which led many people in Southeast Asia to capture Asian loris. However, because the teeth of this monkey are too sharp, traders would pull them out directly after capture. Losing loris teeth is an act of cruelty, and wildlife trade has become the second largest illegal trade in the world.

It is illegal and illegal to keep monkeys as pets

It is illegal and illegal to keep monkeys as pets privately. According to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, any wild primate is a protected animal, and our country also It stipulates that regardless of whether monkeys are produced in my country or imported from abroad, they enjoy the rights of national second-level protected animals.

Only those with a wild animal domestication and breeding license issued by the state can raise and breed monkeys. All other behaviors are illegal.

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