Cowering In Fear, Macaques Huddle Together, Terrified Of Another Beating: Inside The Exceptionally Cruel Chinese Farms Where Monkeys Are Taught To Perform For Tourists

These are the disturbing pictures of terrified monkeys in a Chinese village, where they have been trained from sunrise to sunset to perform for tourists to make money. 

Wearing tight metal collars, the macaques crowd together and look pleadingly at their trainer, who will force them to ride bicycles, handstand on bars, walk on stilts and even catch knives as they balance on a board.

The centuries-old, cruel business takes place in the village of Baowan, in China's rural Henan province, where the land is too had and rough to grow crops.  

Monkey breeding and raising is illegal across China without a proper licence, but with a population of 2,500, Baowan is an exception. As the Year of the Monkey approaches, the villagers are hoping to bolster the already lucrative business.