Outrage over the case of the smoking orangutan.
A zoo avoided responsibility afterward an endangered orangutan was seen smoking a cigarette. The monkey was seen smoking at the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
In the photos obtained from the incident, the endangered primate can be seen sitting on the fence floor with smoke between his fingers. While imitating a human smokerthe orangutan took two long puffs on the cigarette before putting it out on some nearby stones.
For the primate, it appears to be natural when it comes to smoking cigarettes, as he was later seen checking the butt to make sure it was put out properly before throwing it away. A spokesperson for the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Garden he said the orangutan had not been voluntarily given a cigarette.
The monkey imitates the movements of a person and puts the cigarette in his mouth.
The zoo said the endangered orangutan found the cigar after a visitor dropped it. The spokesperson said: “People often throw things into animal cages and The monkey learns to use these objects by seeing how people use them. ”
The zoo added that security guards don’t have time to constantly monitor what’s going on, but are now more alert after images of the endangered animal go viral.
The primate, with a cigarette in his left hand.
The photos come just weeks after a zoo visitor was filmed being mistreated or manipulated by a monkey at an Indonesian zoo.
In the clip, believed to have been shot at the Kasang Kulim Zoo in Riau, Indonesia, a visitor gets too close to an orangutan named Tina who reaches out and grabs his leg.
According to a local media, the man climbed over a barrier to get close to the orangutan and be able to shoot a video. According to a report to Riau Saura, the man ignored a warning sign not to get too close to the animal and jumped a concrete fence.
Orangutan Tina grabbed a tourist’s leg in an Indonesian zoo.
The zoo director also believes the man kicked the orangutan, which he says is usually docile, before the camera started rolling. Luckily, neither he nor Tina were injured after the accident and the visitor has learned a valuable lesson on how to obey the rules when it comes to wild animals.
He later apologized for breaking the zoo’s rules, saying, “I apologize to Kasang Kulim Zoo for stepping through the fence and I apologize for the viral video.”
Source: Clarin
