Are Capuchin Monkeys legal in Florida? If so, how do I get one?

They would probably fall under class II or class III animals in Florida. Which require a permit and special permission to aquire. My advice, don't get a monkey. They need CONSTANT attention, and like most monkeys are prone to get very violent when they get older. Very pricey to aquire also. The cage it would require would also be very pricey. Don't get a monkey. Get a ferret or something else that's cool, and legal.

You heard wrong.

I have many years of experience working with and studying monkeys both in captivity and in the wild. I've worked extensively with ex-pet monkeys and have studied the pet trade and animal welfare extensively. I hope that you will consider what I have to say.

It is not a good idea to get any kind of pet monkey for a variety of reasons, which include your health and your safety; the welfare of the monkey; and the negative influence having a pet monkey will have on the survival of threatened monkey species in the wild.

No amount of effort or good intention on your part can change any of these problems. The fact is that monkeys are wild, not domesticated animals, and they will act accordingly. (It is important to know that being born in captivity does not mean domestication - domestication is a measurable biological process that happens over many generations of selective breeding). Even small monkeys can and do become dangerously unpredictable. Do you know that capuchin monkeys, which are about the size of a housecat, regularly hospitalize people, often disfiguring or disabling them for life? Some monkey owners will tell you that they have never been bitten - but if it it true it probably means that either the monkey has not yet reached adolescence (when the problems start... which may not happen for a few years) or that their monkey is so damaged, either psychologically, or physically, or both, that it is not acting like a normal monkey should.

All monkeys are intensely social animals that are hard-wired to live in complex social groups and to range large and complex territories all day long, every day. When they are denied the opportunity to do this, they suffer - and you can see this in their behavior. The problem is, that very few people that own monkeys have any idea what 'normal' behavior is, and so have no idea that their monkey is acting very abnormally!

To be kept as pets, monkeys are taken from their mothers as infants (and mom is just impregnated again as soon as possible to produce another baby to take away). Maternal deprivation is well-known to cause lasting psychological damage, and even sometimes hinders proper brain development. Human caretaking is no substitute. How can a trade that is founded on inflicting this on intelligent, emotional creatures be anything but wrong?

Plenty of pet monkeys are born in captivity so their owners tend to think that there is no relation to their pet-keeping and the capture of endangered species in the wild. But this could not be further from the truth. anybody working in the field knows that when people who live in primate habitat countries know that Americans and Europeans like to keep pet monkeys, more monkeys are caught (which includes a lot of killing, too) and kept as pets, used as photo props, and used in attempts at smuggling.

You must be an animal lover if you are interested in monkeys. Please, be realistic about it - keeping a pet monkey is a bad idea all around. I hope you will make the right choice!

Monkeys, whilst being primates, are nonetheless wild animals. Wild animals not ever make good pets. My first husband had to have a pet monkey, he notion it would be neat. That was once the vilest, most miserable little creature I ever had the displeasure of understanding! I like animals, more than most men and women, even. That animal made me dislike it. It used to be very intelligent, so it was once challenging to preserve. It had intellectual disorders, I feel. It chewed it's possess tail. I attempted lavishing it with TLC and everything, it simply simple hated me. It bit me each hazard it received, it escaped it can be cage regularly, and i do not care how traditionally you cleaned that cage, it stank to excessive heaven. We ultimately had our vet find a compatible home for it. I just could not do anything with it. There is not one good thing i will be able to say about keeping a monkey as a pet. You may remorse it! By the way, feeding it's not all that handy. You need to go someplace that carries Monkey Chow. How fashioned do you think that is? It can be luxurious, and you ought to stability it with the proper amount of precise recent friuts, veggies, and so on. Try discovering a vet inclined or certified to deal with it! Except you are living close a zoo, just right luck! There are plenty of zoos which might be a long way more qualified than the ordinary character to handle monkeys, allow them to have 'em.

This question comes up again and again and again, but the information is out there - monkeys do NOT EVER MAKE GOOD PETS. They will suffer, and they will probably attack you. Don't be an idiot abnd think that you will be the exception!

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