Monday 9 July 2012

Tori the orangutan that's addicted to cigarettes.

Tori the orangutan has become addicted to cigarettes. Jakarta, Indonesia. Tori is a teenager with a bad habit. She has been smoking cigarettes at an
Indonesian zoo for a decade, but she's about to go cold turkey.
Now keepers are putting her on a strict regime in an effort to break her ten-year habit.
Zookeepers said Friday that they plan to move Tori away from visitors who regularly throw lit cigarettes into her cage so they can watch and photograph her smoke.
Tori’s parents also smoked, although her partner at Jurug Animal Park in Java, Indonesia, refuses.
Instead, he stamps them out.
 The primate mimics human behavior, holding cigarettes casually between her fingers while taking long drags and blowing bursts of smoke out her nostrils.
Several Indonesian zoos have come under scrutiny following animal deaths, including a giraffe that died in the long-troubled Surabaya Zoo in March with an 18-kilogram (40-pound) ball of plastic in its stomach after years of ingesting trash thrown into its enclosure by visitors.




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