For Immediate Release:
30 April 2024
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Meet Ashar; AsharM@petaindia.org
Hiraj Laljani; HirajL@petaindia.org
Aurangabad, Bihar – Acting on a complaint from a concerned citizen, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India worked with the divisional forest officer, Aurangabad, of the Bihar forest department, to rescue a rhesus macaque monkey who was being held in an individual’s home in a small rusted, dingy, and filthy cage without access to suitable food or water. The animal is currently being housed at the Aurangabad forest division’s facility prior to their release back into the wild.
“PETA India thanks Aurangabad forest division officials for working with us to rescue a caged monkey from a grim situation,” says PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Sinchana Subramanyan. “PETA India urges anyone who learns of cruelty to animals to report it to a local animal protection group and the police or, when wildlife is involved, the forest department.”
Monkeys kept in people’s homes as “pets” or to be forced to dance are often chained or confined to cramped cages. When used for entertainment, they are typically trained through beating and food deprivation, and their teeth are commonly pulled out to prevent them from defending themselves. In 1998, the central government issued a notification under The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960, stating that monkeys and several other species of wild animals are not to be exhibited or trained as performing animals.
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETAIndia.com or follow the group on Facebook, Instagram, or X.
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