{"id":696717,"date":"2026-01-15T02:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696717\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:45:13","slug":"east-yorkshire-residents-told-to-license-monkeys-in-private-ownership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/696717\/","title":{"rendered":"East Yorkshire residents told to license monkeys in private ownership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The authority said an inspection would be conducted by a licensing officer and a suitable, qualified person such as a vet or experienced zoo keeper as part of the application process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Owners of chimpanzees, baboons, gorillas and certain species will also need to apply for a dangerous wild animal licence costing \u00a3430.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Lyn Healing, cabinet member for communities and public protection said: &#8220;These regulations are vital for animal welfare, and we urge any residents who own primates to get in touch with the licensing team as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Together we can safeguard animal wellbeing across our region.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The authority said an inspection would be conducted by a licensing officer and a suitable, qualified person such&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-696717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115896826086982400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}