Re: Inside job? or Escape to Freedom? @Voland
There's a good trade in rare species for various reasons, Tigers might be impressive but people will buy these because they are rare and its status to own them. Or just because they are cute and so a must have for someone with more money than morals.
The trade in animals like the Loris is down to how appealing they are, having met a rescued slow loris that was being kept by a friend for a while until it could be moved to a sanctuary I can see the attraction in them as pets (to some degree, there are downsides), but they should never be taken out of the wild. Stealing the monkeys from a zoo is probably easier than capturing them and gets you nicely around having to worry about smuggling them out of Brazil.