Recently, in America there have been many cases of people getting rabies from horses and small wild animals. A monkey's tooth is four centimeters long. Besides the pain to the skin and flesh, the bite, being from a fellow primate, would be much more likely to carry a communicable disease. "Monkeys are troublemakers by nature and make unsuitable pets," says Wu Hai-yin.
近來美國頻傳人們從馬和小型野生動物身上傳染狂犬病的消息，獼猴犬齒也有四公分長，一旦被咬傷，除了皮肉之痛，和人基因最接近的靈長類，更容易有人畜共通的疾病。