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Alan Cumming’s Buddy Co-Star Tonka The Chimp Found Alive After Long Search
After being feared dead for a year, Alan Cumming's chimp co-star from 1997's Buddy has been found alive, secretly kept at the private home of Tonia Haddix. Haddix, the owner of the Missouri Primate Foundation, had been court-ordered to turn over Tonka and six other chimpanzees last year after citing the Foundation for numerous violations of the Endangered Species Act. This included illegally breeding the animals and renting them out to private parties, as well as keeping them in cramped, cockroach-infested enclosures. The news comes hot on the heels of yesterday's arrest of Doc Antle, another controversial zookeeper, and the subject of Netflix's most recent Tiger King season.