Thursday, March 8, 2018

Smoking Orangutan Turns up the Heat with Animal Rights Activists


Animal rights activists are outraged at a video that surfaced from the Bandung Zoo in Indonesia of an orangutan smoking a lit cigarette. The video shows a man discarding the lit cigarette into the orangutan’s enclosure.

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The zoo is reportedly renowned for its sick and starving animals and has a petition on change.org for its closure. A zoo spokesperson has defended the zoo saying that warning signs had been put in place to prohibit smoking around the animals.

Guciano, an animal rights activist says that the video shows the “lack of supervision and education at the zoo”. He also blames the Indonesian government for not putting better animal welfare standards in place. 

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Image: Zoo Monkey Watch

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