50 BBC WILDLIFE December 2021
TikTok the marmoset
(right) with his adoptive
father Ronnie at
Monkey World. He
arrived here after the
RSPCA rescued him
from a private home at
just five or six months
old (inset).The
shocking
truth
about
the UK’s
primate
trade
A long-awaited overhaul
in animal welfare
legislation is set to stop
the suffering of primates
still being kept as pets
By LEOMA WILLIAMS