How Instagram Celebrities Promote Dubai's Underground Animal Trade - bellingcat
Social media images of celebrities posing with tiger cubs, monkeys and cheetahs have inadvertently revealed some secrets of Dubai's shadowy wild animal industry.
The monkey squirms while a woman holds it up with one hand and records it without speaking. The TikTok video is brief and has no description; the only audio is the infant animal’s cooing. Other videos posted on related social media channels show young tigers, lions, cheetahs and pumas, but also monkeys, sloths, and meerkats, all recorded and shared without comment. While still young, these animals make their way to influencers and celebrities who use them as props in their own social media content. Rappers, movie stars, business magnates, TV-presenters, models, vloggers and even a fugitive…
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