Indonesian orangutan caught puffing on zoo visitor's cigarette


This video frame grab taken on March 4, 2018 and released by the Indonesia Animal Welfare Society March 7 shows a Bornean orangutan named Ozon smoking a cigarette in its zoo enclosure in Bandung, about 150 kilometres southeast of Jakarta. Indonesia can now add a smoking orangutan to its roster of nicotine addicts. A video taken on March 4 shows the hairy creature picking up a cigarette butt that was flicked into its zoo enclosure by a visitor and then puffing away on it like a pro. (AFP/Handout / Indonesia Animal Welfare Society )

JAKARTA: Indonesia can now add a smoking orangutan to its roster of nicotine addicts.

A video taken on Sunday shows the beast picking up a cigarette butt that was flicked into its zoo enclosure by a visitor and then puffing away on it like a pro.

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