Youtube – Chiang Mai Monkey Centre
If you’re a monkey at Chiang Mai Monkey Centre in Thailand, then you know Hell on Earth.
At this cruel tourist trap, monkeys spend their lives attached to a chain — even while caged — and are never able to walk freely. They perform the same demeaning tricks day in, day out. The monkey above gazes glumly while riding a bike for the audience, chain wrapped around his neck the entire time.
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The short chain stays on as the monkey plays a sad game of basketball – the trainer must lift the chain when the monkey jumps, because it’s only a few feet long.
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The weight-lifting trick makes a humiliating spectacle out of the monkey, who looks like they’d rather be just about anywhere else.
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Perhaps the cruelest trick is the “push-up” session, in which the trainer physically holds the monkey down as they howl and struggle to lift themselves up.
Animal shows and rides may seem fun in an online photo or brochure, but the truth is that they’re torture for the animal. They may have been kidnapped from their family in the wild as babies, their spirits broken to make them perform. Or else they were born into this captive existence, knowing only abuse and confinement.
At Chiang Mai Monkey Centre, the suffering is clear (as proven by the heartbroken Tripadvisor reviews). But it’s not always obvious, as with elephant rides or aquarium shows. With so many things do while traveling that DON’T involve cruelty, the compassionate choice is to steer clear of captive animal tourist attractions.
Hey,you SOB !!
YOU’RE A DICK!!
QUIT your monkey shines!
ILL bet your NAME is really made up
and so is your PHONY BIRTH CERTIFICATE!!
It’s just like a zoo, only for monkey!!
I did not see one instance of any abuses or cruelty! You are over dramatically imagining that in your minds. Too many violent Hollywood movies, videos for some people.
I must ask THEM to please STOP their
over acting. WHO are the REAL actors, here?!?!
Do unto others, as you would have them do to you. The 2 legged species involved in this activity is not only ignorant, but lacks any compassion for those who do not have a voice that the human species can understand. I wish that they find themselves in a position some day, to be FORCED, to do things that are totally unnatural and painful to them. The sad thing is,that may be the only way they come to realized the error and selfishness of their ways.
Poor little things. I hope someone saves them before it’s too late.
Cruelty is never Ok Please Stop the Abuse let them live free from it..
I am appalled at this absolute cruelty for entertainment. Animals deserve to be treated with dignity and respect and not forced to do things with a chain around their neck!!!!! There’s other ways to make a living that does not involve animal abuse!!!
Remove chains…..and stop hurting the monkeys so they will do what you want (behind the scenes). Get a “real” job & take these wonderful animals to a sanctuary.
Wild animals belong in the forest not with humans. Stop this animal cruelty!!! Fucking bastards making money on wild animals needs to be put in jail.
It ceases to amaze me how many humans think wild life belongs to them to whatever they want with them!!!!!!!!!!! This man is horrible, scum of the earth. Someone should take this monkey away from him. Wildlife are not born to be entertainment for humans. Hopefully animal activists can get this monkey away from his man and take it to a good sanctuary. Just so sad!