Putting primates on screen is fuelling the illegal pet trade

Citation

Craig LE (2018) Putting primates on screen is fuelling the illegal pet trade. The Conversation. 19.02.2018. https://theconversation.com/putting-primates-on-screen-is-fuelling-the-illegal-pet-trade-91995

Abstract
First paragraph: Why would animal rights organisation PETApraise a filmin which a group of apes are brutally attacked by humans? The answer is that War for the Planet of the Apes, the most recent movie in the franchise, used no real primates in its filming. Yet while computer generated imagery is now good enough to create realistic looking animals on screen, some movies still employ actual non-human primates. In the last few years, primate actors have been used in major Hollywood films such as The Hangover Part II (2011), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).

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