Editing Primate (section)

===Legal and social status===
{{further|Great ape personhood}}
[[File:Slow Loris Female.jpg|thumb|left|[[Slow loris]]es are popular in the [[exotic pet]] trade, which threatens wild populations.]]
Only [[human]]s are recognized as persons and protected in law by the [[United Nations]] [[Universal Declaration of Human Rights]].{{refn|group=lower-alpha|'''Article 6''': Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html |year=1948 |access-date=2008-12-02 |title=The Universal Declaration of Human Rights |publisher=[[United Nations]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208080853/http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html |archive-date=2014-12-08}}</ref>}} The legal status of NHPs, on the other hand, is the subject of much debate, with organizations such as the [[Great Ape Project]] (GAP) campaigning to [[great ape personhood|award at least some of them legal rights]].<ref name="GA">{{cite web|author1=Cavalieri, P. |author2=Singer, P. |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.greatapeproject.org/declaration.php |title=Declaration on Great Apes |publisher=[[Great Ape Project]] |access-date=2008-06-16 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080820011354/http://www.greatapeproject.org/declaration.php |archive-date=2008-08-20}}</ref> In June 2008, Spain became the first country in the world to recognize the rights of some NHPs, when its parliament's cross-party environmental committee urged the country to comply with GAP's recommendations, which are that [[chimpanzee]]s, [[orangutan]]s and [[gorilla]]s are not to be used for animal experiments.<ref>{{cite news |author=Glendinning, L. |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/26/humanrights.animalwelfare?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront |title=Spanish parliament approves 'human rights' for apes |newspaper=The Guardian |date=26 June 2008 |access-date=2008-11-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Singer, P. |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2008/jul/18/animalwelfare.animalbehaviour |title=Of great apes and men |newspaper=The Guardian |date=18 July 2008 |access-date=2008-11-10}}</ref>

Many species of NHP are kept as pets by humans. The Allied Effort to Save Other Primates (AESOP) estimates that around 15,000 NHPs live as exotic pets in the United States.<ref name="Mott2003">{{cite magazine |title=The Perils of Keeping Monkeys as Pets |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2003/09/0916_030916_primatepets.html |first=M. |last=Mott |magazine=National Geographic |date=16 September 2003 |access-date=2013-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130608041322/http://news.nationalgeographic.co.uk/news/2003/09/0916_030916_primatepets.html |archive-date=2013-06-08 }}</ref> The expanding Chinese middle class has increased demand for NHPs as exotic pets in recent years.<ref name="Workman">{{cite journal |author=Workman, C. |date=June 2004 |title=Primate conservation in Vietnam: toward a holistic environmental narrative |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_american-anthropologist_2004-06_106_2/page/346 |journal=American Anthropologist |volume=106 |issue=2 |pages=346–352 |doi=10.1525/aa.2004.106.2.346}}</ref> Although NHP import for the pet trade was banned in the U.S. in 1975, smuggling still occurs along the [[United States – Mexico border]], with prices ranging from [[United States dollar|US$]]3000 for monkeys to $30,000 for apes.<ref name="ippl">{{cite web|publisher=[[International Primate Protection League]] |year=2003 |title=IPPL News: The US Pet Monkey Trade |url=http://www.aesop-project.org/US_Pet_Monkey_Trade.htm |access-date=2008-08-04 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725190533/http://www.aesop-project.org/US_Pet_Monkey_Trade.htm |archive-date=2008-07-25}}</ref>

Primates are used as [[model organism]]s in laboratories and have been used in [[Monkeys in space|space missions]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part1.htm |title=The Beginnings of Research in Space Biology at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1946–1952 |access-date=2008-08-18 |author=Bushnell, D. |year=1958 |work=History of Research in Space Biology and Biodynamics |publisher=[[NASA]] |archive-date=2008-01-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080125044753/https://history.nasa.gov/afspbio/part1.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> They serve as [[service animal]]s for disabled humans. [[Capuchin monkey]]s can be [[Monkey helper|trained]] to assist [[quadriplegic]] humans; their intelligence, memory, and manual dexterity make them ideal helpers.<ref>{{cite news|title=Monkeys as Helpers To Quadriplegics At Home |author=Blumenthal, D.|date=1987-06-17|work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B0DE5D81231F934A25755C0A961948260 |access-date=2008-10-08}}</ref>

NHPs are kept in [[zoo]]s around the globe. Historically, zoos were primarily a form of entertainment, but more recently have shifted their focus towards conservation, education and research. GAP does not insist that all NHPs should be released from zoos, primarily because captive-born primates lack the knowledge and experience to survive in the wild if released.<ref>{{cite book|author=Newman, James L.|year=2013|title=Encountering Gorillas: A Chronicle of Discovery, Exploitation, Understanding, and Survival|url=https://archive.org/details/encounteringgori0000newm|url-access=registration|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|location=Plymouth, United Kingdom|isbn=978-1-4422-1957-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/encounteringgori0000newm/page/173 173]}}</ref>