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Stop The Use Of Great Apes In Entertainment

Target: Companies that use great apes in entertainment
Sponsor: Emily Woodall
  • Signatures: 1,257
  • Goal: 0
  • Deadline: 8-2-2005
Help us stop the use of great apes in entertainment. Chimpanzees and Orangutans used in entertainment are stolen from their mothers when they are just a few days old. They often live a life of confinement in a 5’ by 5’ by 7’ cage. In the process of training, they are often beaten, kicked, and whipped with sticks. In one case a handler used a hose filled with rocks, glass and nails to “train” a young chimpanzee. Experts agree there is no way to train a young ape without extreme force. When an ape reaches sexual maturity around the age of seven they are much stronger than a human. If they are lucky, they will be sent to a sanctuary. Most spend the rest of their 60-year life span in a biomedical lab being used as test subjects or are sent to a roadside zoo. This petition will be sent to companies that use chimpanzees in their ads or movies. By signing this petition you will help in stopping the use of chimpanzees and orangutans in entertainment. For more information see below.

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1,257 7:46 pm PST, Nov 12 Wanda Perry
1,256 3:23 pm PDT, Oct 22 Karen Sheaffer
1,255 12:57 pm PDT, Oct 22 Tom Maxwell
1,254 3:33 am PDT, Oct 22 Pam Fioretti
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1,246 4:10 pm PDT, Aug 29 Jennifer Bethel
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1,205 12:35 am PDT, Aug 29 Theodora Natalia
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1,202 7:34 am PDT, Apr 13 Kirsten Moore
1,201 11:59 am PDT, Apr 5 Bobbie Peter

Stop The Use Of Great Apes In Entertainment

We the undersigned, urge you to stop the use of great apes in entertainment.
Great apes are our closest living relatives. We share as much as 99% of our DNA with them. They experience all the same emotions that we do. They feel fear, sadness, anger, happiness, and the most human emotion of all, empathy. Chimpanzees and other great apes used in entertainment are taken away from their mother within days of birth. In the wild great apes share strong bonds with their mother often lasting years. Separating a mother and child leaves lasting scars for both apes involved. This would be like taking a human child away from her mother. While training, great apes are often hit, kicked, beaten and electrocuted to get them to perform. They are confined to a 5’ by 5’ by 7’ cage. That would be like keeping a grown man in a 7’ by 7’ by 11’ cage. Experts agree there is no humane way to train an ape. You cannot use positive reinforcement to make an ape behave. By nature they are mischievous animals. The only way to make them behave as an “actor” is to instill fear in them. These techniques are contrary to the myth of Humane Training. The American Humane Association guidelines for caring for apes on a movie set consist of half a page of vague suggestions. The guidelines leave most of the decisions such as to what the apes do, props that are used, and how long the ape’s work left up to the animal handler. This may well be the same animal handler that brutally trained the apes. If the producer wants to do something that may be dangerous to the ape, the animal handler would be hard pressed to argue for the sake of the ape. The American Humane Association rarely enforces these guidelines. In the 1978 film, Every Which Way But Loose, animal handlers beat an orangutan by the name of Buddha to death after getting into some donuts left on set. These guidelines are not enforced during the filming of television commercials or shows. Nor do they exist beyond the movie set or the borders of the United States, and there are no laws regarding training methods. By the time apes reach sexual maturity they will be much too strong for a human to safely handle. They will either be sold to a lab where they will be used as a test subject or to a road side zoo where they will spend the next 50 to 60 years in isolation in substandard living conditions. Sanctuaries often don’t have room to take more apes. Some people think that no animals should be used for entertainment but it is especially traumatic to use chimpanzees and orangutans in entertainment. Apes are wild animals and should be treated as such. Please do the right thing and stop the abuse of chimpanzees and orangutans in the entertainment industry.

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