Much research has touted the benefits of owning a pet to one’s physical and mental health. Īpproximately two-thirds of all households in the United States include pets. The macaque had pathologies of the hindlimbs indicating that it was inadequately cared for (possibly kept in a cage too small to allow it much movement) and had been imported as macaques are not endemic to Iran. In an Iranian cemetery dating to 4,800 years ago, a rhesus macaque ( Macaca mulatta) was buried with grave goods and in the same manner as the human children in the cemetery. Evidence of nonhuman primates (hereafter referred to as primates) as pets is similarly ancient. Archaeological evidence of a social bond between dogs and people, as companions, is found by 14,000 years ago suggesting that people have valued animal companions for thousands of years. Evidence suggests that the first pet, the dog, was domesticated by 30,000 years ago, likely for practical purposes such as tracking and hunting. Humans have owned pets for many millennia. More than half of pet owners report they are closer to their pet than to their own parents and 95% of dog owners hug their companions every day. Young adults in distress may be more likely to turn to their dogs than to some family members. Owners often attribute human qualities to their pets describing them as thinking, emotional, and creative. Recent surveys of pet owners have found that human attachment to their pets (animals kept within a domestic setting for personal interest, entertainment, or companionship ) plays an important role in their lives as evidenced by how they refer to their pets–as friends, children or fur babies, and members of the family. Advertisement campaigns focusing on disease transmission and legal consequences and a federal ban on pet primate ownership are two avenues to pursue to end the ownership of pet primates in the United States. Primates do not make good pets and even when captive-bred, pet primates impact the conservation of their wild counterparts. There are several potential drivers for the primate pet trade, including media influence, fashion/status, and profitable breeding though these are not mutually exclusive. The median price was $3,800 though price was highly variable, even for the same taxa. Almost two-thirds of the pet primates for sale were male (Chi-Square = 16.056, df = 1, P = 0. We recorded 551 pet primates for sale between June 2019-June 2020, with 69.1% platyrrhines, 21.6% strepsirrhines, and 8.9% catarrhines. We used Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit tests to compare whether the number of male and female pet primates for sale and the number of different age categories of pet primates for sale differed from equality and Spearman Correlation to examine associations between price and size and price and supply. We recorded the type of primate for sale, sex, age, location, and price. We collected data from six exotic pet-trade websites twice a month for 12 months. Most research on pet primates occurs in habitat countries and little is known about these pets in the United States. While dogs and cats are the most common type of pet, there are an estimated 15,000 pet primates in the United States and the demand for exotic pets in general has been rising. Our research goal was to investigate the primate pet trade in the United States.
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