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Parties in Los Angeles just got a lot less wild.

LA City Council approved legislation this week that will ban people from “exhibiting wild, exotic or dangerous animals at house parties and other loud or unruly gatherings,” according to Route Fifty.

This means that Angelinos will have to learn to hold shindigs without wild animals like chimpanzees, lions and bears.

“California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation last fall that imposed a state-wide ban on circus acts featuring wild animals like bears, tigers and monkeys,” according to the website, which added that “the legislation also restricts the use of the animals in performances, to offer rides or to do tricks for a live audience.”

Councilmember David Ryu led the effort and described seeing a giraffe and an elephant being “marched up the Hollywood Hills” for a party four years ago.

“This is not safe, this is not ethical and perpetrates a barbaric view that wild and exotic animals are toys,” Ryu told the council before the measure went to vote.

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