smoke as
visitors could freely toss cigarettes to them without proper monitoring.
"Cigarettes are bad for orangutans' health. We demand
the zoos closely monitor the orangutans," Centre for Orangutan Protection
campaigner Hardi Baktiantoro told AFP.
"Orangutans can also smoke cigarettes because they tend
to imitate human behaviour," he said.
Baktiantoro said the apes were able to receive any food or
cigarettes thrown to them as there were no barriers between them and zoo
visitors.
In Malaysia, an orangutan named Shirley that amused visitors
by smoking cigarette butts thrown into her cage was being forced to go cold
turkey after authorities seized the great ape from a state-run zoo last week.
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Source : AFP
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