Similar to all primates, they are very high maintenance. This type of pet monkey requires lots of attention. The dispositions of adult Guenons can be unpredictable, sometimes bordering on aggressive, especially if mistreated. These are the most common types of pet monkeys. Contact us with the link below for more information!
New Pet Registration Contact Us. Your email address will not be published. Leave this field empty. Skip to content. New Pet Registration. You may think that diapers are the answer, but even if a monkey would agree to wear one, they often cause painful sores and rashes, and they restrict the tail muscles from developing normally causing physical damage to the primate.
Life at the sanctuary allows these animals the freedom to express these species-specific behaviors, without forcing them into difficult, hands-on situations. We are able to feed, clean, and enrich all primate areas without direct contact with any primate. Primates naturally want to be the one in charge in a group, or at least be second in command. This means that generally a primate will bond with one person who they think is in charge, and then perceive everyone else as the enemy.
They will attack humans with vicious bites and scratches to maintain their status in the group. This means ultimately you will be left alone with your monkey, cut off from normal social interactions with your family and friends, and unable to enjoy time away from your home or to take family vacations.
Monkeys can carry parasites and zoonotic diseases that are dangerous to humans. Primates are social animals who need to be around their own kind in order to develop normally, both psychologically and emotionally. Thinking about acquiring a monkey to keep as an adorable pet? Think carefully. Thousands of nonhuman primates are hosted as companions in people's homes across the United States—relationships that often end in tears. As babies these big-eyed, furry creatures may seem harmless. But once they reach sexual maturity, experts warn, monkeys can become aggressive.
And some primates harbor deadly diseases, like herpes B, that they can pass on to human primates via bites and scratches. Many people remain undaunted by the risks of adopting primates in their homes. Viewed as status symbols or substitute children, monkeys are commonly sold for thousands of dollars through newspaper ads and the Internet.
We need a baby to love! A quick Internet search reveals a thriving trade in just about every species of primate, from capuchins to chimpanzees. Prices range from U. Even endangered species, like Diana monkeys, lemurs, and gibbons, are for sale. The Allied Effort to Save Other Primates, an international coalition of individuals and organizations dedicated to protecting monkeys and apes, estimates there are 15, primates kept as pets in the United States.
No federal laws regulate private ownership, and only nine states ban individuals from owning nonhuman primates. Veterinarian Kevin Wright of the Phoenix Zoo in Arizona says primates are highly intelligent, emotionally complex, and long-lived animals that need to be around their own kind in order to develop normally.
Never learn how to get along with other monkeys. And, more often than not, will end up with a lot of behavioral traits that are self-destructive. Zoonotic diseases are also a concern. Human cold sores, he said, can kill smaller monkeys like marmosets and tamarins. While macaques can carry herpes B, a potentially fatal virus to humans. Most people are infected through bites or scratches. The test used to determine if a monkey has the virus is "good but not percent accurate," said Wright.
If a monkey tests negative, many zoos still manage the animal as if it has the virus, he said, because the consequence of a false test can be deadly to human handlers.
The health and safety hazards associated with exposure to monkeys and other nonhuman primates prompted the U. Centers for Disease Control in to prohibit them from being imported into the United States for use as pets. Today, monkeys offered for sale are surplus animals from zoos and laboratories or from breeders, says April Truitt, founder of The Primate Rescue Center in Kentucky. The babies are pulled from their mothers as early as three days old and given an inanimate object, such as a stuffed animal or blanket as a surrogate mother.
Most of these young primates, say experts, develop aberrant behaviors such as rocking, self-grasping, and digit sucking. Once monkeys reach sexual maturity they can become dangerous, says Wright, of the Phoenix Zoo.
Smaller monkeys become sexually mature around 18 to 24 months. Larger primates, like orangutans and chimps, reach puberty between five and ten years of age.
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