Chimpanzee for Sale
cute and adorable baby chimpanzee for sale....just read on!
But what happens in three years, yes, three years, when he goes from infant to a young adolescent? Then what. What happens when he starts ripping the cabinets off the walls. Or if you are late coming home from work, he freaks out because chimps are not used to your change in schedule? You don't see what will become of him - in as short as eight years, when he becomes sexually mature. Then he won't want to wear his diapers, instead he will use his excrement as paint and your walls as his canvas.
This is what becomes you're adorable little boy. He becomes an......(drum roll)...an adult chimpanzee! Wow! Who would have thought. This isn't drama, it's the truth. And not only does he become an adult chimpanzee, he has become an outcast from other chimpanzees because he can only relate to other humans. For the rest of his life, the next 40 years, what will you do with him?
This evening while doing some research, I came across this ad on the internet, it was so disturbing, I had to share it:
cute and adorable baby chimpanzee for sale
I have Chimpanzee monkeys age ranging from ,12 weeks 15 weeks 3 days up to
5 months 3 weeks,1 year to 5 years old. Adoption price for baby male $1500 this
amount include shipping, vet certificate and kennel. for baby female $2000 and pair
$2500 include shipping, vet certificate and cage. All my chimpanzee monkeys will
be issued a Health medicate certificate, diapers (two pair) by a veterinarian
before travel. All are trained with an excellent temperament and sound good with
children that all are tame. All of my chimpanzee monkeys are loved and played
with each and every day. They are given the best high quality monkeys food to
keep them healthy for many years. They are taken to the veterinarian for regular
check-ups .Which mean all are free from genetics diseases.YOU CAN MAIL US BACK FOR MORE PICTURES AND ANY INFORMATION.
Can you just imagine? Then there were some other ads: "I can't have children and I'm desperately seeking a baby chimpanzee...please help!" I was just besides myself.
Jane Goodall, who has spent her entire life with chimpanzees, both in the wild and in captivity has some interesting things to say about having a chimpanzee as a pet. You can read all about it on her site: http://www.janegoodall.org/chimp-central-pets
And if you think, "Oh he's a tree hugger, what does he know?" Believe me, I am not a tree-hugger or a nature freak, far from it. But I do love God's creatures. I believe if chimps were meant to have as pets, they would have been domesticated by now, like dogs and cats. I might even would have one myself. By the way, if you've ever played with a dog, and they "play bit" you, a baby chimp's "play bite" is five to ten times stronger. And that's an infant. As they grow older, "...it's only natural for an animal [to bite] but humans can't cope so they pull teeth. Chimps should not be pets," Phillip Cronje from the Jane Goodall International South Africa (JGI SA) or better known from Animal Planets, "Chimp Eden".
Now, if you wanted to operate a sanctuary and have the land (and the cash) to do so, I applaud you - because there are many owners of adolescent chimps that are trying to find their beloved "pets" a sanctuary.
Just as you would do anything else, ask yourself these questions:
# 1. Would you own a rottweiler or a pit bull?
Chimps have between 2 times to 7 times the strength of a comparably sized human. They are strong enough to crush human bone with their bare hands and their bite is many times stronger than any dog’s. Adult chimps are harder to manage and can be more aggressive than almost any trained dog. If you would not get a rottweiler, you should not get a chimp.
# 2. Are you willing to risk someone losing their eyes, hands, or worse?
Chimps are smart enough to maim. A chimp, unlike a dog or a shark, does not attack indiscriminately. Nor does it generally attack with the intent to kill, as does a lion or tiger. Chimps attack to cripple and damage. They are aware of and target sensitive spots of the body and destroy them irreparably and quickly. Their primary targets are the eyes, face, hands, and genitals. After they have destroyed these they tend to target the feet or the abdomen. I would recommend listening carefully to the CT woman’s 911 call and pay close attention before you consider if you want the potential for that inside your home. Phillip Cronje had his fingers bit off by one of his own chimps at Johannesburg Zoo for no reason at all.
# 3. Are you okay with living with a cannibal?
Chimps are cannibals. A chimp is an animal that kills other primates, even unfamiliar chimps, and in many cases engages in cannibalism when it does so. A chimp is not a cuddly creature - it is an amazingly intelligent and aggressive omnivore. Think about a smarter, faster bear and you would be getting closer.
# 4. Are your neighbors okay with being attacked? Do they live far enough away to ensure their safety? (Maybe you should ask your neighbors first)
Chimps do not play well with other primates. For a chimp, there are two types of primates - ones like them and ones that aren’t. Primates that aren’t like them are killed out of territoriality or as food. Such “primates” could be your neighbors or their children. Even a minor scuffle with a chimp for someone outside your household could lead to them being permanently disfigured or killed. This is particularly an issue because it is extremely difficult to keep a chimp confined.Chimps are very good at escaping houses and cages, even those managed by trained professionals. NASCAR driver St. James Davis lost his face,hands, and genitals in an attack by two chimps in a sanctuary who escaped their cages.
# 5. Are you willing to let the chimp choose your social contacts?
Primates that are like them are subject to very complex social relationships that they will not be able to fully express to you. If you raise a chimp, it will come to love you. Love is a wonderful and dangerous thing. They may become violent in getting your attention and may also become overprotective. They may become jealous of your other familial relationships. Jealousy by an animal of this level of strength can lead to it attacking people you genuinely care about. This would result in the chimp being shot and the person being maimed or killed.
# 6. Are you willing to give them away as a teenager?
Thankfully, before the chimp generally hurts someone - you will have already seen the signs that it is hitting puberty. It will be more aggressive and more demanding. It will cause property damage. It will begin to masturbate in public. It will act in an aggressive manner to either friends or strangers. You will then have to give the chimp away or risk someone getting hurt. This will not be pleasant for you or the chimp. You will have formed a bond, there will be genuine attachment.
# 7. Can you live with the chimp being tormented from that point on?
The locations where you can give away a chimp are not great. You can give them to a research lab, where they will be experimented on, which no one wants. Or you can attempt to find them a chimp sanctuary which may cost money or have poor living conditions. The chimp, in turn, will miss you. It also will not have the proper social skills to interact with other chimps. It would be as traumatizing as you being raised by chimps and then thrown into a city. Since chimps tend to establish dominance and your chimp will probably be a teenager, it will get beat up a lot by other more established chimps.
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If you answered "no" to any of these, reconsider getting a chimpanzee. Get a dog, adopt a child, take a trip around the world, but do not get a chimp.
Getting a chimp is a dangerous proposal, both for you and the chimp. The most likely scenario is that you get the chimp and realize you're not ready to handle the responsibility of handling an intelligent,dangerous, and needy animal. At this point, you give them away to a sad and unfamiliar life and they never understand why you have abandoned them. A chimp is not like a dog. It does not just forget and move on. It remembers its “family” forever.
The problem is, there is no place for an adult chimp in a human family. Humans live in a world with great levels of social contact and responsibilities that use much of our time. A chimp will only get to deal with its owners. This competition for attention, combined with the natural aggressiveness of an adult chimp, is a very dangerous situation. It is dangerous not only to yourself but to your neighbors and to anyone who visits your home.
Think of it this way. If chimps make such good pets, why do no primate specialists have any as pets? Canine specialists own dogs.Specialists in some other monkey breeds own monkeys. Specialists in chimps do not own chimps. Please take this warning to heart and do not get a chimp.
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Excellent article! This cannot be stressed enough.
Yes i know about chimps no I think they are ugly even in infancey. But what do you think about owning marmosets?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To get your hands on a marmoset, which represents 25 "New World" monkeys, you will have to rip one from its mother. By the time he/she reaches sexual maturity, you are going to wish you didn't get one. In France it was popular to have a marmoset - then all of a sudden several years after this "trend" they started showing up in public parks. They became so hard to deal with people were just abandoning them!
It is shocking that anyone can buy a chimp or any other monkey over the internet and they are so cheap. The internet providers should stop all these advertisers trading illegally.
It breaks my heart to see pictures of the babies in nappies being sold as a commodity. I hate to think of what happened to their families. The sale of wild animals should be banned over the inter net and the export of wild animals should be very closely monitored. What is there to do as the governments need to do something.
I feel like that ad is a scam; they don't really have any chimpanzees, they just want to collect your money and not deliver the chimpanzee. A few years ago, fake pet sales were all the rage among scammers, and scambaiters had lots of fun ordering rhinos, wombles, and other animals. One guy tried to get the scammer to have himself photographed with a rhino, but couldn't do it. And this ad has some of the flavor of a scam. I mean, someone with chimps from 3 days to 5 years old? Someone has that many chimps and calls them "monkeys"? $1500 for a chimp??? Including shipping???? I mean, how much does shipping a chimp cost? How much would YOU charge to ship a chimp?
So I think, scam; they don't really have any chimps, and if anyone falls for it they will just be out the money but won't have to contend with owning a chimp and maybe losing an eye or a hand or a nose or a whole face later. This is one case where taking the money and failing to come across with the goods is better than delivering the goods.
I don't think you have to worry. I don't know who would buy a chimp after Presidents' Day 2009.
Very well said, George! I have worked with chimps and other primates...I have owned various monkeys. Believe me, folks...you need to educate yourelf to 'expert' level in order to properly manage any primate pet. Most of you in all likelihood aren't gonna wanna work that hard. ( and who could blame you?)
Larger primates( capuchins, woolys, spider monkeys etc) are destructive, dirty, and will take a great deal of your time, money and effort. Now, if you had in mind a tame, cuddly pet (as opposed to a wild animal in a display cage) that's going to be even more challenging. If you think you want a monkey for a pet, spend at least a year finding out everything that you'll need to know, do, be, spend. After you do that, very likely you'll decide its more than you truly want to take on.
Far better to find that out before you purchase a monkey rather than finding out the hard way after its too late.
That...was 'larger primates'.
Smaller primates, such as marmosets and the various prosimians are dirty, destructive, will take a great deal of your resources. Add to that, marmosets etc are exceedingly fragile and delicate. Let me put it another way:
They get sick and die easily, they get injured and die easily, they become stressed and die easily. They're not the sort of pet you'd have on your shoulder walking in the park, because of the dangers of stress and disease.
They're best off is a large, climate-controlled enclosure, where they can be observed for what they are, and handled very little. (Look,but don't touch...just like fish in an aquarium)
Such an enclosure is very, very expensive, and so large that you probably don't have room in your house to devote to it. With all of these primates, if you're 'doing it right', your life is gonna revolve around their needs. Ask yourself if you really want one that much. Probably, you're not willing to make the kind of commitment that is absolutely necessary if you intend to 'do it right'. Again...who could blame you? It's a LOT to ask of anyone. Do not be misled by owners that you may come across that say it's 'easy'
or even those who make it LOOK easy.
Nothing about primate-keeping is easy.
I'm one of those people that make it look easy...It's not easy.
Now, as to Chimps as pets:
Firstly, unless you've got fifty thousand dollars to spend, you can't afford it. $1,500.00 infant chimps DO NOT EXIST...anywhere. Remember too, that you're going to need to spend a lot of money on a large secure facility,
where the chimp will spend nearly all of his time, once he's 3 or so. Oh, and the vet bills...thousands of dollars each year. Adult Chimps are huge, standing well over five feet tall and generally 150+ pounds. They BITE. A chimp can bite your finger off as easily as you can bite a banana in two.
More to the point, once they're sexually mature (7-9-years old) they tend to be subject to fits of violent rage. Normal Chimp behaviour...but hardly what you'd call a pet.
George said it all. Chimps as pets? NO.
you don't love animals.if u did u wouldn't take them out of their natural habitat for profit.your quite the opposite, you hate animals and for this your a piece of garbage.i would love to meet you.i would treat u like treat the animals.people like u are the problem,selling animals for profit, to whomever will buy. Hypocrite if u would like to talk i will gladly talk if your man enough to email me your contact info but i bet anything this will be deleted. u probably think Japanese really do research on the whales they kill in the South Pole don't you?
You obviously did not read the contents of the blog at all. By the way you get more bees with honey. In other words, communicating like a human being instead of spewing hate won't get anyone anywhere.
great article mr.zaharoff very imformative.i cant believe how people could even think they could buy a chimp for that cheap let alone even want to own one.but if they are willing to fall for such a scam to each his own lol.
Thanks Alexius (great name by the way) for taking the time out to send me a note, much appreciated. I don't know how familiar you are about having a chimp as a pet, but literally having one as a pet usually ends in a tragic separation between owner and chimp. Then the chimp has no idea how to interact with other chimps. Another thing that people do not realise is that these animals will usually form a bond with one person in the family, and will then become possessive over that one person. Primates have been known to divide households! by putting spouse against spouse and forget about inviting people over or getting someone to babysit for you when you travel.
i own two chimpanzees and i have had them for ten years there full grown 200 pound chimps that i sleep with and clean up messes after bbut the funnest part is showing socilizing skills to them i showed them how to eat termites from a log with a stick i showed them signs of love and signs of anger or honor i showed them that they were fully wild animals who loved me because i am there father i dident treat them like a pet i fed them yes but i was a second father to them i showed them ways of the wilderness and how to hunt and use there tatics to kill but they never used them on me they have almost 3in canines that i never had punctured thru my skin they sometimes sleep outside my house nd come back the next morning. i will not recommend a chimpanzee as a pet for anyone dont be fooled i was at first but i was smart and trained them cody and bobu died last year at 21yrs old they had a fight that turned out to be a bloodbath they both died i was very heart broken i loved them like a son acually more then a son they were great but no i dont recomend these animals to anyone dont be fooled and i had to quit my job to support them with lifesavings and im just one of the many people who have felt the same
For every baby chimp coming out of Africa-many others die. The mother is killed, usually others in the family group are killed and many babies die in transit, going from the bush where they have been orphaned, to the cities on trains or trucks, in dark small boxes or baskets, and then put on planes. How traumatic! For all of you misguided people who want a pet chimp...if you really care about them, do NOT be a market for the pet traders who could not care less for their welfare. Do not pass money for apes, EVER, even if you find one in a market in Africa and want to save its life. Call the Ministry of Forest and do it legally. There is a reason it is illegal to capture, kill, buy or sell chimpanzees and gorillas in ALL of their native countries. They are beautiful wild animals, our closest relatives, and they should have a safe place to live...IN THE WILD!
Excellent article. I have followed the story of Monkey World in Dorset, England for many years and have learned of how chimps and many other primates are brought into the pet trade. Whole families are slaughtered for 1 baby. The work of the sadly deceased Jim Cronin, his wife, Alison and the whole team at Monkey World is dedicated to highlight the plight of primates and rescue and rehabilitate primates whether they are used as entertainment, pets or lab research subjects. They work closely with governments around the world in trying to prevent the trade in all primates.
Having spent many hours/days/weeks at Monkey World and observing the behaviour of these animals, none of them would make a pet, even the tiniest marmoset. Young chimps look very cute and cuddly and innocent, but can turn in an instant and their strength is amazing. They are also very social animals and need to be with their own kind. This has be highlighted many times on the TV show. They need to be chimps and in an ideal world, they need to be in the wild, but the species called man is making this harder than ever. More articles like this need to get out there and make people aware of what is going on and get it stopped.
Very well said. I always tell people to please just educate themselves. That's all one has to do, they don't have to listen to what you or I have to say, just study the facts.