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I am johno :)

>the following explains all really... dont comment until you've read it properly please :)

Director of MONA-UK (UK Primate Rescue Charity)
I am very concerned about the Fall Out Boy Video "Thanks for the Memories" which features chimpanzees, an orang-utan and a capuchin monkey. To see these highly intelligent and sensitive animals being forced to wear clothes and made to look like clowns for a music video is very disturbing. Great apes and monkeys continue to be used in the entertainment industry but most people are totally unaware of the terrible conditions that these animals have to endure to produce these films/commercials. Not to mention that when they get older and become too big and dangerous to handle they are discarded like rubbish.

I am a representative of the Mona Foundation and we see the consequences of chimpanzees being used in the entertainment industry every day at our primate sanctuary in Spain; all of our rescued chimpanzees have psychological scars as a result of being forced to perform in TV adverts or circus acts.

Apes used in entertainment are torn form their mothers at a very early age and are destined for a life of misery and exploitation. According to Sarah Baeckler, a leading primatologist, who spent a year working undercover a major Hollywood animal training facility, its simply not interesting enough for a young chimp to sit still and pay attention for long periods of time. Therefore animal trainers use the fear of pain to make them do what they are told. She has revealed that she "...saw trainers punch the chimps in the back, kick them in the head, throw their whole bodies into pummelling them with their fists. They hit them using rocks, mallets, and sawed-off broom handles... I saw evidence of using a cattle prod. The chimpanzees are punished for things that are completely normal chimpanzee behaviours". In addition, Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, a world-renowned primatologist and campaigner against the use of apes in entertainment has pointed out many times that when you see a chimp "smile" on TV, what you are actually seeing is a "grin of fear".

I hope after reading this information that you will reconsider ever using chimpanzees again in any of your music videos. There is simply no excuse to use live animals on TV today because alternatives such as computer graphics, animations, and robotics are readily available to the TV and the music industry.

Lorraine Docherty, Ph.D.

Director of MONA-UK (UK Primate Rescue Charity)

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