How Social Media Often Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade

ASHLEY EDES: ‘We’ve all seen images and videos of primates that go viral — a chimpanzee bottle-feeding a baby tiger, a monkey having makeup applied, slow lorises eating rice balls and holding tiny umbrellas. Most recently, widely circulated videos have shown juvenile chimpanzees dressed in clothes and hugging former caretakers or scrolling through Instagram on … Continue reading How Social Media Often Supports Animal Cruelty and the Illegal Pet Trade