International primate trade

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The international trade in primates sees 32,000 wild primates trapped and sold on the international market every year. They are sold for food, for use in animal testing, for exhibition in zoos and circuses, and for private use as companion animals.

Contents 1 Countries involved 2 How the primates are caught and held 3 See also 4 Notes

[edit] Countries involved

The United States imports around one third of all primates sold internationally, with the United Kingdom importing the second highest number. Japan, Russia, The Netherlands, France, and Taiwan also rank among the top importing countries.

The primates are exported from Indonesia, Malaysia, Kenya, Thailand, Philippines, Mauritius, and China, where they exist indigenously.

[edit] How the primates are caught and held

The animals are caught by local villagers and farmers, who set traps with baited nets and or by laying bait in crates. Entire families may be caught in the nets, with any undesirable animals being killed and sold for food.

Those who survive are taken in crates to holding centers, possibly without food or water. The centers are reportedly overcrowded and dirty; the primates may not be able to stand in the crates, and many die. Others are weeded out because they are ill, too thin, or too old, with females and babies being the most desirable. ^[1]

According to a 1992 investigation by the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, 75% of the primates may be killed at the holding centers. ^[2]

[edit] See also

• Animal testing
• Nafovanny
• Non-human primate experiments

[edit] Notes