Alan Cumming Is Offering $10,000 to Find Missing Chimpanzee 'Buddy' Co-Star
justjared.comAlan Cumming is looking for help. The 57-year-old actor is offering a $10,000 reward for any information about Tonka, the missing chimpanzee who starred with him in 1997′s Buddy, via Variety. Click inside to read more… The monkey was last seen in a cage at Missouri Primate Foundation in Festus, Mo., where chimpanzees were bred at the location and then rented out for movies and parties, or sold to private owners.
PETA has put up its own $10,000 reward for information. “During the months we filmed together, baby Tonka and I became good friends, playing and grooming each other and just generally larking about.
It’s horrible to think he might in a cage in a dark basement somewhere or have met some other fate, so I’m appealing to whoever knows what has become of him to please come forward claim the reward,” he said in a statement. “Owner Tonia Haddix claimed that [Tonka] had ‘died,’ but told various stories that didn’t add up and failed to prove that this was the case.
She had previously stated that PETA would never get him. In January, a judge found that mystery surrounds the primate’s disappearance and that Haddix’s testimony was not credible, leaving PETA and Cumming to try to determine his whereabouts or perhaps his final resting place,” PETA said in a statement.
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