Chimp Crazy: Brittany Peet: The Attorney

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

“I mean, it's an addiction, an obsession, a sickness that these people seem to have that they don't think that it could happen to them. And even when it does, they are still in denial about it.” - Brittany Peet

There's a new docuseries on HBO called, Chimp Crazy. If you haven't seen it, see it. It's made by Eric Goode, the guy who made Tiger King, and it is equally shocking .

Chimp Crazy focuses on chimpanzee owners, private owners that buy cute baby chimps, dress them up and treat them like human children until they are 5 or 6 years old, when the chimps become large, and very strong wild animals. This part usually ends badly. Well, it always ends badly for the chimps but quite often it does for the humans too.

This conversation is with Brittany Peet, PETA's general counsel for captive animal law enforcement. Brittany makes quite a few appearances in Chimp Crazy - she is one of the PETA lawyers who freed the captive chimps in the show, and has spent her career working to free many other captive, chimps, primates and other wild animals throughout the US.

Please listen, share and if you haven’t seen it, please watch Chimp Crazy.

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0:00.0	Species.
0:07.0	Species.
0:09.0	You unite, unite.
0:11.0	I mean it's an addiction and obsession a sickness that these people seem to have that you know they they don't think that it could happen to them.
0:23.2	And even when it does, they are still in denial about it. Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask. If you like today's episode and you have a spare minute, could you please rate and review
0:46.3	Species Unite on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts? It really helps people to find the show.
0:53.0	the show.
0:54.0	There's a new docile
1:00.0	there's a new docuis series on HBO called Chimp Crazy. If you haven't seen it, see it. It's
1:07.1	astonishing. It's made by Eric Good, the guy who made Tiger King and it is just as shocking. I think one of the reasons it's so shocking
1:16.8	like Tiger King is that unless you know people own primates and wildlife and keep them in their basements, you don't really think about it.
1:26.1	Chim Crazy focuses on individual chimpanzee owners, private owners that adopt cute baby chimps who then turn into large wild animals.
1:37.4	And it usually ends pretty badly. This conversation is with Brittany Pete.
1:43.0	She's Pita's general counsel for captive animal law enforcement
1:46.4	and she makes quite a few appearances in Chimp Crazy.
1:49.7	She's one of Pita's lawyers who has been working to free captive chimps in the United States,
1:55.8	as well as many other captive wild animals, and get them sent to sanctuary. We're here to talk about Chimp Crazy. The whole docuaries just blew me away and you're a very important role in it and a even more important role in the whole bigger picture of
2:28.0	Captive Wild Animals in this country.
2:30.0	So I want to get into all of that but for people who have not seen the
2:34.5	docu series will you just I mean it's so hard to explain the whole thing but like
2:39.4	just tell a little bit about it so people know what we're talking about.
2:42.4	Well yeah it is a
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