monkeys

[neven]

hey guys n gals,
does any one no if you can keep a monkey in australia?
cos i want a monkey lol. i tried looking for the allowed wildlife list on an advanced licence but couldnt find it. any ideas?
nev

 

[NoOne]

PMSL!

 

[neven]

explain?

 

[Fuscus]

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:...sInfoSheet.pdf+monkeys+keeping+Victoria&hl=en

 

[Guest]

How cool would it be to own one though?? like the monkey that homer gets and makes really fat and lazy. LOL
He could fetch you beers, scratch your back and do tricks to entertain at parties!! LOL

 

[Greebo]

Pray for Mojo...

 

[womas4me]

There are plenty already running the country.

 

[Gregory]

It's not as far fetched as it sounds. I have a cousin who lives in the outer north western suburbs of Sydney on some land. He keeps a few different species of Primates. (Well he did the last time I heard from me mum). He's got a private zoo licence. So it's not out of the realms of possibility.


Greg.

 

[Guest]

haha, i want mojo. "get me a beer"

 

[instar]

Nev, id love a cuppuchian monkey too, sadly such animals are generally allowed only to zoo's private or public as far as I know. I remember last year the "Skippy" park at terry hills closed down and they actioned everything, i remember seeing a few monkeys of some sort listed, I emailed an enquiry but never got a reply. What makes you want a monkey anyway? just curious. Not a Michael Jackson thing goin on? :lol: :lol:

 

[Splitmore]

About 10yrs ago in Sydney a guy out Kellyville way used to reguarly advertise macaques in the Sydney Morning Herald. Wasn't long before he was pulled up on it but I would assume he's still around . Contact the department of agricultue in your relevant state, it may not e as far fetched as you think.

 

[keelow]

"I want a helper monkey, and.... maybe one of those dogs, what do they do?"
"those serve as seeing eye dogs for the blind"
"hmmm... just the monkey then"
"Sir may i enquire how you are...hmmm differently abled?"
"Oh i'm not handicapped, I'm just Lazy"

keelow

 

[Hickson]

As far as i'm aware, the only monkeys available in Australia as pets are the macaques Splitmore mentioned - Crabeating Macaques and Pigtailed Macaques if I remember rightly. When the guy was selling them about ten years ago he was asking for something like $15,000 each. And having worked with macaques at Taronga I can tell you they can be really nasty little buggers. An adult male Pigtail is about the size of small baboon and has very large canines.

The guy who was selling them in Sydney (I think he was in Sackville) could only sell them to someone who was licensed by the Dept of Agriculture to keep monkeys; and in order to get a license you would need to have a large cage (by 'large' I mean a very big walk-in aviary size) fixed to a concrete foundation, and secured with a padlock. Completely escape proof. And you couldn't keep your monkey as a pet the way they have been popularised on TV and in movies.

And most monkeys are social animals - they get very lonely without others of their kind, so you'd probably have to buy three or four.

That's they way the situation was some years ago, I can't see them having relaxed the laws at all.



Hix

 

[africancichlidau]

Sorry Neven, you are only allowed to keep Native Monkeys in Australia.

 

[Samma3l]

I think I saw one of those native monkeys the other day. It was playing with a drop bear

 

[keelow]

i used to have a drop bear, but it kept climbing trees and falling out, became a problem animal... r.s.p.c.a took it.

 

[Fuscus]

Should have taught it footy, keelow. Then it could have been a dropkick.

 

[Fuscus]

Ha, what timing
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11273353%5E13762,00.html

 

[instar]

Has experts perplexed? Maybe its because they are fed, they just want food! Sometimes "experts" overlook the obvious in search of complex answers. LOl

 

[Gregory]

The guy who was selling them in Sydney (I think he was in Sackville)

That would be my cousin Ray.






Greg.