Extract from ABC News
Updated
An Indonesian zoo infamous for mistreatment of
animals is being slammed again by activists after a video emerged of one
of its orangutans smoking.
Activist Marison Guciano posted a
video on Monday that shows a young man flicking his half-smoked
cigarette into the primate's enclosure at Bandung Zoo.It's picked up by the primate, who expertly puffs on it to laughter from the crowd.
Mr Guciano said that the smoking great ape is further evidence of a lack of supervision and education at Bandung Zoo, about 120 kilometres south-west of the capital Jakarta.
Mr Guciano said he believes the man who threw the cigarette has committed a crime but the privately owned zoo is mainly responsible because of its "ignorance of supervision and education for visitors".
The zoo has repeatedly made headlines for housing starving and sick animals.
A change.org petition calling Bandung a "death zoo" and calling for it's closure has received almost one million signatures.
It was temporarily closed in 2016 after a Sumatran elephant that died was found with bruises on its body.
AP
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