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In 1969, two flamboyantly dressed, long-haired hippies named Anthony Bourke and John Rendall purchased a lion cub from London's upscale department store Harrods - which, at the time, traded in exotic animals - and brought him to live in their Chelsea furniture store in the heart of Swinging London. Christian...
The fate of these castoff chimps is varied. Zoos won’t accept former pets, and most wildlife sanctuaries are now at capacity. (Besides, it costs $15,000 a year to care for a chimp at a sanctuary, a price Chimparty is unwilling to pay.) So the chimps either...
Across America, 15,000 primates serve human masters as exotic pets. Only 20 states prohibit the practice, and there is no federal law against it. Given that primates often live beyond 50 years of age, many of these simian pets will be resold repeatedly, journeying in airplane holds across the...
The dangers of this trade are manifest. Chimpanzees are reservoirs of exotic, communicable diseases, from Herpes B to monkey pox and the Marburg virus. They are also five to seven times stronger than a person of equivalent size and can turn aggressive at the slightest provocation.
Although the hedge-fund industry has long relished the light touch of lawmakers and financial regulators, a new era is dawning for largely unregulated financial institutions, and rightly so. The huge systemic risks associated with hedge funds and other unregulated firms in the financial system have a ruinous potential in...