Action for Primates

News Media Articles Involving Non-human Primates 2024

The following are articles about non-human primates reported in the news media. Those involving Action for Primates are indicated.

See elsewhere for non-human primates in the news from other years.

Although an article may be posted here, it does not mean that Action for Primates agrees with any statements made or situations depicted. It should be clear that we are unequivocally opposed to keeping non-human primates in captivity.

See separate page on injuries caused by keeping non-human primates in captivity.

2024-12-20: Two arrested in Bengaluru airport for allegedly smuggling agile Gibbons by stuffing them into a bag Hindustan Times accessed 2024-12-21

2024-12-18: Two caught smuggling agile gibbons from Malaysia to Bengaluru in suitcases The Hindu accessed 2024-12-20

2024-12-15: Warakapitiya, Kasun The Sunday Times accessed 2024-12-15
The abundance of domestic waste and offering of food attract animals such as macaque monkeys, which ransack homes for meals and raid agricultural lands.

2024-12-13: Ratchaburi man busted with 50 rare exotic animals Wassayos Ngamkham Bangkok Post accessed 2024-12-13

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2024-12-05: Ottawa urged to act on import of Cambodian monkeys for labs, as questions linger about whether some could be caught in wild Woolf, Marie The Globe and Mail accessed 2024-12-05
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2024-12-02: Monkeys travelling to UK labs for medical testing face gruelling journeys Farhoud, Nada Mirror accessed 2024-12-02

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2024-11-24: Monkeys flown to UK for lab tests found 'injured and terrified' in blood-soaked plane crates Colley, Claire and Dalton, Jane Independent accessed 2024-11-25

2024-11-15: Influencer charged with DUI fights to get back her pet monkey – who was found sick and malnourished author(s) New York Post accessed 2024-11-16

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2024-11-14: Depraved woman who helped run horrific monkey torture ring blamed it on her hate for women and babies Siddell, Susanna GB News accessed 2024-11-16

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2024-11-14: SICK & TWISTED Inside rise of vile monkey torture rings where defenceless animals are put in nappies, set on fire & impaled on SKEWERS Singh, Ethan The Sun accessed 2024-11-15

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2024-11-14: SICK & TWISTED Inside rise of vile monkey torture rings where defenceless animals are put in nappies, set on fire & impaled on SKEWERS Singh, Ethan The U.S. Sun accessed 2024-11-15

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2024-11-13: Two Worcestershire women jailed for role in global monkey torture network Murray, Jessica The Guardian accessed 2024-11-14

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2024-11-13: Two women jailed after being part of 'sickening and sadistic' monkey torture network Luck, Flaminia LBC accessed 2024-11-14

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2024-11-13: Two women jailed for global monkey torture ring STV News STV News accessed 2024-11-14

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2024-11-13: Women jailed over monkey torture ring BBC BBC News accessed 2024-11-14

2024-11-08: Frail chimps headed from New Mexico to Louisiana sanctuary Nell Greenfieldboyce NPR accessed 2024-11-10

2024-11-08: Researchers beg Canada to stop importing monkeys for experimentation Michelle Lalonde The Gazette accessed 2024-11-09

2024-11-07: Forty-three monkeys escape from US research lab Matza, Max BBC News accessed 2024-11-08

2024-11-07: 43 primates on the loose in South Carolina town after escaping from research lab Hutchinson, Bill ABC News accessed 2024-11-08

2024-10-30: Ottawa urged to halt imports of endangered monkeys for drug testing, amid U.S. probe Sharif Hassan The Canadian Press accessed 2024-11-03

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2024-10-24: [Taiwanese Woman Sued for Posting Animal Abuse Videos on Facebook] Rodriguez, Maria Les News accessed 2024-10-25

2024-10-10: Former CCS teacher gets over 4 years for leadership role in monkey torture group WSYX Staff ABC6 accessed 2024-10-11

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2024-10-09: [US Fish and Wildlife Service rejects request to protect long-tailed macaques] Anonymous lexpress.mu accessed 2024-10-10

2024-10-07: Feds reject bid to protect macaques used in biomed research Doyle, Michael E&E News accessed 2024-10-11

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2024-10-03: Bloomington man pleads guilty to funding, distributing monkey torture videos Canizares, Izzy Bring Me The News accessed 2024-10-04

2024-09-30: 17 endangered macaques illegally captured on Con Dao Islands Truong Ha VN Express accessed 2024-10-10

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2024-09-27: Inside the sick monkey torture Facebook network and the people helping bring it down Edrich, Patrick Liverpool Echo accessed 2024-09-29

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2024-09-25: Man jailed for posting perverse 'monkey torture' videos on Facebook Sanders, Tom Metro accessed 2024-09-26

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2024-09-25: Man jailed after online torture posts showing 'deliberate and gratuitous suffering of baby monkeys for entertainment' Chambers, Chris LBC accessed 2024-09-26

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2024-09-25: Bloke who 'hated primates' shared sick abuse vids in group called 'Monkey Sauce' Edrich, Patrick and Gilpin, Andy Daily Star accessed 2024-09-26

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2024-09-25: Law firm worker who put sick videos online is first Brit to be jailed over monkey torture clips as he is put behind bars for 20 months Tozer, James Mail Online accessed 2024-09-26

2024-09-23: Tourist feeding blamed for monkey aggression The Express Tribune accessed 2024-09-23

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2024-09-20: Concerns Grow Over Fate of Cambodian Monkeys Sparke, Trinity One Green Planet accessed 2024-09-22

2024-09-19: Two spider monkeys rescued from wildlife traffickers WSAZ 3 accessed 2024-09-20

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2024-09-17: Fears Rise Over Monkeys At Angkor Wat Being Sent For Testing Shahi, Shukriya The Daily Guardian accessed 2024-09-18

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2024-09-17: Protests to be held outside of Salford Civic Hall over endangered monkeys Mulligan, Alfie Salford Now accessed 2024-09-18

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2024-09-17: 'Exceptionally cruel': 'Aggressive' monkeys of Angkor Wat might end up in test labs, org warns Singh, Anamica WION accessed 2024-09-18

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2024-09-17: Growing fears that 'aggressive' monkeys at iconic Asian tourist hotspot being sent for animal testing Singh, Namita Independent accessed 2024-09-17

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2024-09-16: Concerns raised over relocation of "aggressive" Angkor Wat monkeys Seangly, Phak Asia News Network accessed 2024-09-16

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2024-09-16: [Association concerned about Angkor Wat's 'aggressive' monkeys] Anonymous Le Petit Journal accessed 2024-09-16

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2024-09-16: Concerns raised over 'aggressive' Angkor Wat monkeys possibly ending up at labs Anonymous The Straits Times accessed 2024-09-16

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2024-09-13: Concerns raised over relocation of "aggressive" Angkor Wat monkeys Anonymous The Nation accessed 2024-09-14

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2024-09-13: Concerns raised over relocation of "aggressive" Angkor Wat monkeys Seangly, Phak The Phnom Penh Post accessed 2024-09-14

2024-09-11: Monkey holding facility plans in county dropped Susan Avera Holt The Facts accessed 2024-09-12

2024-09-11: Cambodia's Forestry Administration to conduct nationwide monkey census, aims to curb biting incidents The Star accessed 2024-09-12
The main cause of any aggression is that people are being allowed to feed the monkeys as well as interact in other ways. The government must stop this, not remove the monkeys.

2024-09-04: Investigation launched after report of monkeys living in trash-filled home in Clermont County Felicia Jordan and Valerie Lyons medium accessed 2024-09-05

2024-08-23: Ministry arrests man for trafficking orangutans The Jakarta Post accessed 2024-08-24

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2024-08-19: Woman admits being part of monkey torture network Goodwin, Nicola and Hughes, Chloe BBC News accessed 2024-08-19

2024-08-17: Monkeys at 'hellhole' zoo risk infecting holidaymakers with TB, critics claim Jane Dalton Independent accessed 2024-08-30

2024-08-15: Monkey business: Wisconsin primate sanctuary running out of space Mackenzie Krumme Wisconsin Public Radio accessed 2024-08-16

2024-08-12: Gibbon, sunda flying lemurs among eight exotic species seized at Chennai airport Venkadesan S & P Oppili Times of India accessed 2024-08-13

2024-08-11: Lanka experimenting with IUDs to tackle monkey menace Srinivasan, Meera The Island accessed 2024-08-12

[Wolfgang Dittus]: ...effective only if contraception is combined with a legally imposed strict ban on feeding wild monkeys, since access to human food fuels monkey survival, birth rates, immigration, and the resulting population growth. ... Issuing guns to farmers to kill wildlife is obviously not a cogent solution to any current challenges. Plantations and crops can be protected from loss to wildlife, but it requires a receptive culture for implementing novel methods of doing agriculture in coexistence with nature

2024-08-09: On patrol with Thailand's 'Anti-Monkey Unit' battling to keep primates at bay in Lopburi Lauren Day and Supattra Vimonsuknopparat ABC News accessed 2024-08-11

2024-07-12: In Nepal, debate rages on crop-raiding monkeys Ramesh Bhushal Dialogue Earth accessed 2024-07-13

2024-07-08: Edinburgh Zoo chimpanzee dies after troop fight BBC News accessed 2024-07-10

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2024-07-01: Evidence mounts of long-tailed macaques' dire conservation status Keeling, Tracy The 4 Percent accessed 2024-07-03

2024-07-01: Meet Tiki: The diaper-wearing monkey spotted inside a Bronx tow truck Amanda Geffner and Duarte Geraldino Fox 5 New York accessed 2024-07-03

2024-06-29: Baby spider monkeys become latest objects of Texas border smuggling Victoria Lopez My San Antonio accessed 2024-06-30

2024-06-12: Georgia residents are fighting efforts to build a massive monkey-breeding facility in their city Kayla Steinberg NBC News accessed 2024-06-14

2024-06-11: Monkey torture video accused woman granted bail Susie Rack and Matthew Cooper BBC News accessed 2024-06-11

2024-06-11: Around 200 African Green Monkeys damaging crops in Antigua and Barbuda Associates Times accessed 2024-06-14

2024-06-07: 30 Monkeys killed mercilessly by unidentified individuals in Chikkamagaluru; Sparks outrage Vartha Bharati accessed 2024-06-09

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2024-06-05: Facebook Is a Hub for Animal Torture Videos, Where Crypto Buys Cruelty Irwin, Kate PC Mag accessed 2024-06-06

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2024-06-05: Fair 2024: Monkey around at the El Dorado County Fair Mountain Democrat accessed 2024-06-12

2024-05-29: Missing Macaque Shot And Killed Will Folks Fits News accessed 2024-05-30

2024-05-25: A pet primate is on the loose in South Carolina Rebekah Riess, Zoe Sottile and Sharif Paget CNN US accessed 2024-05-26

2024-05-20: How much harm is plastic waste doing to macaques? Anonymous University of Portsmouth accessed 2024-05-22

2024-05-13: Ohio man pleads guilty to making and sharing videos of monkey torture Dan Gooding Independent accessed 2024-05-14

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2024-05-10: [More masterminds behind the global network of monkey torture groups] Miriam GardaAnimalia.com accessed 2024-05-12

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2024-05-09: British Woman Pleads Guilty in Shocking Global Monkey Torture Network Case Sparke, Trinity One Green Planet accessed 2024-05-10

2024-05-09: Perhilitan: Monkey business tops list of complaints in Johor The Star accessed 2024-05-18

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2024-05-07: Kidderminster woman pleads guilty to role in monkey torture network Lawson, Eleanor ; Gunter, Joel and Henschke, Rebecca BBC News accessed 2024-05-07

2024-05-03: Monkey business at care home's birthday party Andrew Dawkins BBC News accessed 2024-05-16
Not only cruel keeping of monkeys in captivity, irresponsible exposure of people to potential serious injury.

2024-05-02: Thai-US Seizes 48 Lemurs and 1,076 Tortoises from Wildlife Trafficking Ring Khaosod English accessed 2024-05-17

2024-05-01: CT senator among lawmakers to introduce proposal to ban private owning of primates Rob Polansky Eyewitness News 3 accessed 2024-05-02

2024-04-28: Pera vets successfully insert contraceptive loop in monkey Senaratne, L.B. The Sunday Times accessed 2024-04-29

2024-04-19: Portrait of the apes: Monkey takes a selfie with stunned British tourists (but all is not as it seems) James Reynolds Mail Online accessed 2024-04-21
Incredibly stupid thing for people to do.

2024-04-16: 3 little spider monkeys saved from getting smuggled into Texas Ariana Garcia Chron accessed 2024-04-17

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2024-04-11: Urgent Call to Halt Cruel Importation of Long-Tailed Macaques for Research Sparke, Trinity One Green Planet accessed 2024-04-12

2024-04-05: No more monkey business: Thai city's macaques to be put in enclosures Rebecca Ratcliffe The Guardian accessed 2024-04-06

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2024-04-03: Exposure of Twisted Global Monkey Torture Network Leads to Several Arrests Kauppila, Ile Oddee accessed 2024-04-06

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2024-03-27: Cambodian monkey exports to Canada for lab tests are surging, fueling health concerns Delgado, Anton L. and Cribb, Robert Southeast Asia Globe accessed 2024-03-28

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2024-03-25: [Animal Protection Coalition Concerns Capture of Long-Tailed Monkeys Triggers Zoonotic Diseases] Hasyim, Irsyan tempo.co accessed 2024-03-26

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2024-03-25: [Global Animal Protection Coalition Urges KLHK to Stop Exports of Long-Tailed Monkeys] Hasyim, Irsyan tempo.co accessed 2024-03-26

2024-03-25: Panchayat staffers wear gorilla costumes to scare monkeys away from Telangana fields B Satyanarayana Reddy The New Indian Express accessed 2024-03-25

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2024-03-24: Macaque imports into Canada for lab tests are surging — and so are concerns these endangered animals may be harboring dangerous pathogens Cribb, Robert Toronto Star accessed 2024-03-25

2024-03-23: Thai police arrest man for selling protected langurs on Facebook Connor, Mitch Thaiger accessed 2024-03-24

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2024-03-22: [990 Long-Tailed Monkeys from Indonesia Exported to the United States, Are There Any from the Mount Ciremai Habitat?] Masum, Naufal radarkuningan.com accessed 2024-03-23

2024-03-20: The pet primate trade in the U.S. Open Access Government accessed 2024-05-03

2024-03-18: Illegal sale of Spider Monkey on Craigslist leads to prison sentence for Houston woman Michael Horton Click 2 Houston accessed 2024-03-19

2024-03-14: Peru's illegal pet monkey trade is also an infection superhighway Carla Ruas Mongabay accessed 2024-03-15

2024-03-14: 'Artificial feeding to monkeys can disrupt ecosystem', wildlife experts warn tourists Anonymous Geo News accessed 2024-03-15

2024-03-12: Exterminate all the green monkeys? Barbados Today accessed 2024-03-13

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2024-03-11: [Indonesia Reportedly Exports 1,400 Wild-Caught Monkeys to America in 2023] Hasyim, Irsyan tempo.co accessed 2024-03-11

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2024-03-10: [Indonesia Exports 1,402 Wild Monkeys to the US in 2023] Aditya GardaAnimalia.com accessed 2024-03-11

2024-03-07: Impunity for Cambodia's exotic pet owners as trade outpaces legislation Gerald Flynn and Nehru Pry Mongabay accessed 2024-03-11

2024-03-05: 2 monkeys intercepted at Texas port of entry; HSI Rio Grande Valley, US Fish and Wildlife Service initiate criminal investigation U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement accessed 2024-03-09

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2024-03-03: [Controversial project to breed monkeys in Le Val: Shafeek Jhummun does not drop ground] Hilbert, Patrick Defimedia.info accessed 2024-03-03

2024-03-02: Exclusive: Fears proposal for £320million 'deadly' 30,000 monkey farm will 'ignite next global pandemic' Liam Buckler Mirror accessed 2024-03-02

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2024-03-01: [The United States Imported 1,402 Wild Monkeys from Indonesia Last Year] Wicaksono, Raden Ariyo Betahita accessed 2024-03-02

2024-02-28: Climate change could cause 'generational trauma' in great apes Anand Ram CBC accessed 2024-02-29

2024-02-28: Primates: New rules make it harder to keep them as pets Ali Abbas Ahmadi & Helen Catt BBC News accessed 2024-02-29

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2024-02-28: [Animal cruelty: the exploitation of monkeys in Mauritius in the sights of NGOs] Chatelet, Emilie clicanoo accessed 2024-02-29

2024-02-28: [Cruelty to animals: Action for Primates evokes a 27% increase in monkey exports] Hilbert, Patrick Defimedia.info accessed 2024-02-29

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2024-02-23: [Baby Monkey Torture Content Producer in West Kalimantan Arrested] Wicaksono, Raden Ariyo Betahita accessed 2024-02-23

2024-02-20: Proposed megafacility to breed monkeys in U.S. dismays activists and neighbors but excites scientists Sara Reardon Science accessed 2024-02-22

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2024-02-17: [Short Lifespan of Long-Tailed Monkeys] Sari, Amelia Rahima Interaktif accessed 2024-02-17

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2024-02-16: Controversial plan for large monkey farm in Mauritius The Animal Reader accessed 2024-02-17

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2024-02-13: 15,000 Monkeys: Outrage Over Proposed Farm in Mauritius News Moris Editor News Moris accessed 2024-02-14

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2024-02-12: [Latest news after more than a year of investigation into the monkey torture group revealed] Aditya GardaAnimalia.com accessed 2024-02-18

2024-02-12: [Regarding the Monkey Torture Case, Sarah Kite: Social Media Must Be Responsible] Aditya GardaAnimalia.com accessed 2024-02-18

2024-02-09: German zoo sparks outrage with plans to cull some of its 45-strong tribe of baboons and feed them to captive predators after contraception failed to stop the primates breeding Kuepper, Miriam Mail Online accessed 2024-02-10

2024-02-09: [Selling Monkey Torture Content, Man from Singkawang Arrested by Police] Bayu Nanda Gardaanimalia.com accessed 2024-02-10

2024-02-05: [Export: a breeding farm for 12,000 monkeys planned in Le Val] Patrick Hilbert Defimedia.info accessed 2024-02-06

2024-02-02: Monkey Attacks Recently Observed in Japan, Thailand, India; What Is Making These Primates Aggressive? Stacy, Kendra The Science Times accessed 2024-02-03

Irrespective of location or species, a huge contributing factor to monkey attacks or bites is over-habituation. Habituation refers to the process that animal researchers use to gain the trust of animals so that they can record or follow animal behavior. In such cases, the presence of researchers leads to limited impacts. However, it is possible for animals to be unintentionally habituated. When animals stop fearing humans and end up becoming nuisances, they become over-habituated. In almost all over-habituation cases, the primary factor is human food. Wildlife may find human food irresistible. This food is easy to digest, dense in nutrients, and can be found in unattended backpacks or trash bins. From an ecological standpoint, animals have reasons to maximize this resource of high quality. Hence, it is not surprising that animals would modify their fears and behaviors in order to adjust.

2024-02-01: Inside Elon Musk's Neuralink lab where 1,500 animals have been killed and test monkeys were subjected to 'extreme suffering' author(s) Mail Online accessed 2024-02-04

2024-02-01: [Emergency status of long-tailed monkeys and macaques] Kennial Laia Betahita accessed 2024-02-03

2024-01-31: The US uses endangered monkeys to test drugs. This law could free them. Martindale, Dayton Vox accessed 2024-02-01

2024-01-31: Human contact with macaques increases virus risk: report Yu-hao, Ko and Chung, Jake Taiwan News accessed 2024-02-01

2024-01-19: A rare glimpse of the swimming macaque wins 2023 Ocean Art contest Dunja Djudjic D|Y Photography accessed 2024-01-20

2024-01-18: Plan for $400 million monkey-breeding facility in southwest Georgia draws protest ABC News accessed 2024-01-18

2024-01-09: 'Escaped monkey' seen wandering around Gloucestershire village Lauren Beavis and Phil Norris GloucestershireLive accessed 2024-01-11

2024-01-03: Primate facility proposal rankles Brazoria County residents Michael Marks Texas Standard accessed 2024-01-04

2024-01-02: Monkey business: Furious neighbors slam plans for research center housing 43,000 primates next to their Texas properties James Gordon Mail Online accessed 2024-01-04