SOCIAL media giants have been slammed by an animal rescue charity for “glorifying” keeping baby monkeys as pets.
TikTok and Facebook have come under fire from Monkey World after they rescued a tiny infant marmoset, from Grays, Essex, this week.
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Videos on the popular video sharing site show the primates being forced to “perform” for their owners.
Footage on TikTok also shows a tiny baby monkey on the shoulder of his owner, in the UK, being fed and in a separate video being bathed.
Another video, outside of the UK, shows a monkey in a harness licking an orange lollipop – which got 12k likes.
A post of a capuchin monkey drinking from a tap and basin in a bathroom got a whopping 1.5m views.
Rescue charity Monkey World last week saved an orphan monkey, who was cruelly named TikTok, after his breeders attempted to sell him for £2,000 on Facebook.
The tiny infant marmoset only weighs 110g, and was found in a bird cage when the RSPCA…
