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Steve Winter

A remote camera captured P-22 roaming Griffith Park in Los Angeles in 2013.

Under the new law, holding and cuddling cubs for photos will no longer be legal.

Sophie, an eight-week-old cub at Woody’s Menagerie, is paraded at an Oregon county fair in Illinois in August 2018. An estimated 4,500 big cats live in captivity in the U.S.

Tourists watch a tiger cub play with a stuffed toy during a petting and photo opportunity at Myrtle Beach Safari. Visitors may be unaware of the breeding practices necessary to create these cubs—or what happens to many captive tigers when they become too big to interact with the public and can’t be used for breeding or display as adults.

One of the world's smallest frogs poses on a fingertip at the Cuchillas del Toa Biosphere Reserve in Cuba. The image was taken for a story in the November 2003 issue on the rich biodiversity of the island nation.

A Bengal tigress relaxes in India's Bandhavgarh National Park. A story in the November 2011 issue documented the threats against wild tigers and what it would take to protect them.

LEMSIP veterinarian Jim Mahoney performs a checkup on a chimpanzee in 1996.

Research technicians prepare a tranquilized chimp for HIV research. It eventually became clear that chimpanzees are poor proxies for humans for this disease.

In the nursery kitchen, staff prepare snacks with peanut butter and sugary cereal.

As part of the lab’s enrichment program, staff showed movies. Chimps share much with humans: They react to sights, sounds, and music. Chimps used in medical research also suffer severe stress. “The costs of laboratory-caused trauma are immeasurable,” a 2008 study concluded. They leave a “life-long psychological impact.”