Chimp Crazy: Private Chimp Ownership Sounds Cute Until It Isn’t

Send us Fan Mail A cute baby chimp in a diaper is the most dangerous kind of marketing. We dig into Chimp Crazy, the Tiger King-adjacent documentary that turns “exotic pet” curiosity into a straight-up ethics alarm, as we follow Tonka’s story and the adults who keep insisting captivity is love. The more we talk through the court fights, the missing chimp mystery, and the constant rationalizations, the clearer it gets: chimpanzees are not pets, and pretending otherwise has a body count. ...