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Animal Traffic, The Global Exotic Pet Trade

How does a wild animal in the forest become a caged companion in a living room? To become a companion commodity, a wild animal is severed from its family, its social networks, and its ecology. At this very moment, millions of live, wild-caught animals are circulating worldwide in what is a booming, multi-billion dollar economy: the global exotic pet trade. More than half of these animals will die in transit or in the first few months at their new home. This video tracks the processes of capturing, transporting and buying and selling exotic pets. It shows the high cost of “pet love” in a bioeconomy that turns complex socio-ecological networks of animal life into discrete individual animal bodies that can circulate globally.