Lily is our adopted long-tailed macaque from the Sumatra wildlife center of JAAN foundation

Lily is one of Indonesia’s mistreated macaques who had to wear clothes and perform as a dancing monkey for street entertainment.

Many of these monkeys are captured as babies in the wild (after their mothers are shot) and offered as pets in horrific markets where birds and other animals are traded.
The babies grow up isolated in a cage and end up chained and traumatized. When they are no longer wanted, they are dumped somewhere or the authorities are called to pick up an animal.

These macaques have a low protected status and people abuse them in various ways. They are kept as pets or forced to perform tricks like dancing monkeys that are trained to show their teeth by slapping them during training, which people regard as smiling.
In the photo, you can see Lily “smiling.”

Lily is one of the lucky ones who was rescued along with three other macaques.
Lily is now growing into a lively little girl who loves to play with the other monkeys and is beginning to show normal and mischievous behavior, a happy girl who really makes her caretakers smile.

Lily will be released back into the wild when she is ready, but for now she will be loved and cared for by JAAN‘s amazing team.