Animal activists furious after monkey drenched in blue paint
White settlers who spread across southern Africa generally regarded baboons as vermin and placed bounties on them, some of which remained in place well into…
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A 2024 study of vervet monkey admissions to a Durban wildlife rehabilitation centre, published in the journal Mammalian Biology, documented monkeys deliberately harmed by people through physical attacks, poisoning and painting, which the authors cited as evidence of cruelty in the human-monkey conflict. Charne van der Mescht, co-founder of Monkey Matters Eastern Cape, which has rescued primates in the province for more than 25 years, said the act stemmed from a belief that painting a monkey would scare off its troop.
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A 2024 study of vervet monkey admissions to a Durban wildlife rehabilitation centre, published in the journal Mammalian Biology, documented monkeys deliberately harmed by people through physical attacks, poisoning and painting, which the authors cited as evidence of cruelty in the human-monkey conflict.
according to IOL (Independent Online)Charne van der Mescht, co-founder of Monkey Matters Eastern Cape, which has rescued primates in the province for more than 25 years, said the act stemmed from a belief that painting a monkey would scare off its troop.
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