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There are certain things you have to deal with in order to own a chimpanzee. Generally you must have permits, liscenses, and expensive enclosures built and inspected by the USDA, before you can own one. A lot of states you have to be using them for "business purposes". In Florida and Alaska you cant really own them at all, unless they are basically used for tv or something ridiculous like that. It will cost 40 to 60 thousand dollars after purchasing the chimp, enclosure, permits, etc. They also have a very high probability of becoming aggressive with age, and would basically have to be left in secure enclosures, to assure that they don't harm anyone (in my opinion, and opinion of most others anyway).
Chimpanzees cannot be pets. As babies, they are relatively easy to care for, and pretty much can be raised as human children.
Upon reaching adolescence however, they become too hard to handle. Adult chimpanzees are 7-10 times stronger than humans. No matter how loving a relationship a chimp has with their human family there is always danger they will lose their temper and attack their owner, or even a neighbour. Not even Hollywood trainers can handle them after this time, and after abusing them their whole lives, they usually get rid of them or use them for breeding.
Also, it is cruel to the chimp. When an owner realises what they have gotten themselves into, there is almost nowhere for the chimp to go. Most zoos cannot take pet chimps as chimpanzees learn their social skills from other member of their community as they get older, so they are usually unable to form relationships with other chimps. Most sanctuaries are already filled to capacity. Many owners resort to biomedical labs as a place to dump their chimps, where the chimps live in 5x5x7 foot cages their entire lives.
Furthermore, the chimps destined to be pets are torn from their mothers at birth, and this has the exact same effect it owuld on a human and child.
Chimps are also endangered in the wild, and sometimes people will smuggle in wild baby chimps, and their family would have been killed to capture them.
If you love chimps, do research, donate or volunteer for sanctuaries and spread the word of their plight, but NEVER get one for a pet.
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