(Mandarin translation of the article is below, 中文翻譯以下)

“Hi, I am a baby langur, once lived happily with my family of 13. I was born in August 2018, where my parents and siblings all gathered together to celebrate my arrival. I love my mom so much, I can’t live without her.

My mom used to tell me stories about how human cutting down trees and made us to live in degraded habitat, which sometimes dad had to bring us to roadside and parks for foraging.

One early evening, my family and I were having a nap on our usual tree. All of a sudden I heard loud ‘BANG’ close to me. The next moment which I can remember was my mom lying next to me, unconscious, while I tried so hard to scream, a big human being carried me away from my family.

I was in captivity. There were a few baby langurs with me too. I saw owls, leopard cats, and other kinds of baby monkeys with me. Where were I? I wondered. I never knew…

I struggled through the next few days, without proper food, where the human fed me with weird food which I cannot digest. Then one day, they took me away and passed me to a beautiful lady.

She hugged me so tight. At that moment I thought I will be in safe hands, she will be my second mother…

The lady called me Twinkle. She dressed me up, fed me human food, but the milk tasted weird, which made me uncomfortable… but I cannot speak, I can only call. Unfortunately, the lady doesn’t understand me. She thought I was being naughty, she started to neglect me after a few weeks.

Day by day I was so alone. I missed the forest, the birds chirping, where my mom and siblings took me to play in the foliage.

I couldn’t take it anymore. I was so weak, I had no freedom, no friends, with only inappropriate care from the human. I wanted to go home – the forest.

The forest will always be in my memory. As I took my last few moments of breath, I look into the lady’s eyes… How I hope she would understand that we wildlife are not pets, we belong in our natural habitat, and it is cruel to keep us as pets.

Please, speak for me. If there is no demand for my kind as primate pets, there will not be a supply in illegal primate pet trade. Protect us, not hurting us. Thank you.”

– A dusky langur baby
18 November 2018

“你好，我是一个眼镜食叶猴宝宝，曾经跟我13位家庭成员开心的住在一起。我是在2018年八月出生的哦，那时家人和兄弟姐妹们都开心的聚在一起庆祝我的到来。我最爱我的妈咪，因为没有她就没有我。

妈咪也常常会跟我讲故事，告诉我人类们因为砍伐森林而导致了我们居住在已经被破坏的家园里，所以有时爸爸还需要把我们全家大小带到人类开发的公园里还是马路边用餐。

有一天傍晚，当我的家人和我在我们通常睡午觉的地方正在睡午觉时，突然间在我耳旁听到‘砰！’一大声。下一刻我能记得的就是我妈咪无意识地躺在我身边，当我尝试大喊的时候一个高大的人类把我从我的家人抓走了。

我被囚禁了。有几只长得和我一样的眼镜猴宝宝和我在一起。我也看见了猫头鹰，豹猫，和别的品种的小猴子。我在哪里？我想知道。可是我从来不知道…

接下来那几天我都很挣扎，没有适合的食物，人类们都喂食我那我不能消化的奇怪食物。然而有一天，他们把我带走了，把我交给一位漂亮的女士。

她把我抱得很紧很紧。当下，我真的以为我终於会受到妥善照管，她会是我第二个妈妈…

那位女士把我取名为小星星。帮我穿上漂亮的衣服，喂我人类的食物，可是那奶味感觉好奇怪，喝下去後我感觉好难受… 我想告诉她可是我不能说话，我只能呼叫。可是很不庆幸的，她听不懂。她开始觉得我变得调皮了，几个星期後就把我忽略了。

一天又一天，我都很孤独。我想念我曾经居住的森林，那儿的鸟叫声，妈咪和兄弟姐妹们带我去玩乐的树荫下。

我不能再忍受了。我很虚弱了，我没有了自由，没有了朋友，只有人类不妥善的照顾。我想我原本的家—森林。

森林里美好的点点滴滴会一直留著我记忆里。当我剩下最後一口气的时候，我看著那女士的眼睛… 好希望她会明白我们野生动物不是宠物，我们是属於大自然的，把我们从我们家人身边抢过来当做宠物是很残忍的。

请您们，大家，为我发声好吗？如果没有把灵长类动物当做宠物的需求就不会有非法灵长野生动物供应和贸易的活动了。保护我们，不是伤害我们。谢谢您们。”

• 眼镜食叶猴宝宝
  二〇一八年，十一月十八日

Above slideshow shows various wildlife, including primates are being sold illegally on social media. 许多野生动物被非法捕猎和在社交平台买卖。

“Stop the Demand, Stop the Trade. 停止需求, 停止非法野生动物供应和贸易.”

#PrimatesAreNotPets #灵长类动物并非宠物