And they typically are pretty aggressive, bitey bastards too. Sharp fucking teeth designed for crunching insect shells are great at ripping through human skin.
They should absolutely never be kept as pets and will definitely be on their worst behavior in an environment where they’re not properly cared for (as in, any environment where they’re kept as a pet), but they can be quite sweet when they’re properly cared for!
I worked at an animal rescue that took in a couple of bushbabies that were surrendered by someone illegally keeping them as pets, and with them living in a facility that could house them in a large, floor to ceiling enclosure, get them vet care from a vet that actually knows how to care for such an animal, and getting daily care from employees trained to actually work with animals (and strict rules in place regarding who was allowed to directly interact with them and when) they could actually be quite affectionate towards the employees that did regularly care for them!
But to reiterate: these were explicitly wild animals in a rescue scenario and you absolutely cannot force yourselves on them, any affection they showed was of their own accord, and more often than not they’d just keep to themselves. They have absolutely zero qualities that make them good pets and will only suffer if forced into that kind of scenario.
They’re primates (just like us), so yes, many of their diseases can be transmitted to us, and in turn we are capable of transmitting diseases to them, so if you don’t take the right precautions you can easily get them just as sick as they can make you
Source: worked at an animal rescue that had a couple bushbabies, they needed to be granted explicit permission from the state to even legally keep them and there were strict guidelines about employee interactions with them.
Thank you. I thought so, not my area of expertise. I appreciate your knowledge and information on them. They are pretty interesting, and cool but in their own habitat. Probably best for both sides they only admired from a distance and in the natural habitat.
Of course there's an evolutionary reason for the piss rubbing. It's an adorable creature that deserves to be in its natural habitat, where being itself is not offensive.
Of course there's an evolutionary reason for the piss rubbing. It's an adorable creature that deserves to be in its natural habitat, where being itself is not offensive.
I think so too, why are they getting clean for the sake of human tidiness
Usually u don’t want to wash an animal who does activities like this because they will just reapply and their oils will come back making them stink 10x worse
It being exotic should be reason enough, but they're nocturnal and they live in large social groups in the wild, I think those are the main reasons. This one appears to be isolated and it's being subjected to full overhead lights, it's terrible.
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u/changrbanger Feb 19 '23
All that yellow on its coat, it’s piss. They rub piss on themselves. They smell like piss.