Call it an orangutan detox facility.
It's an island in the middle of a lake in Indonesia's Taru Jurug Zoo, and it's where Tori, the smoking orangutan, will be spending her days.
The 13-year-old primate picked up the habit by grabbing still-burning butts discarded in her enclosure by zoo visitors and imitating their actions, zoo officials told the Jakarta Globe.
Signs warned against the practice, but zoo visitors paid no heed, the zoo's director, Lilik Kristianto, told the Globe.
“A common problem for zoos in Indonesia are naughty visitors,” the director is quoted as saying. “Although there are sign prohibiting them from giving food or cigarettes to the animals, they keep on doing it. It is not rare that visitors even hurt the animals.”
Besides keeping puffing visitors at a safe distance, the island will have other advantages over the concrete cage Tori has called home at the zoo in Solo.
“Tori can climb five big trees on the island. This might be the best orangutan enclosure in Indonesia,” the zoo director is quoted as saying.
Tori isn't alone on the island. A male, Didik, has joined her.
But Didik has no need for rehab. While Tori would puff on the butts, Didik used to stamp them out, the Globe reported.
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The fact that CNN is covering stories like this should be on the RedicuList.
this is news and cnn is a news network. nobody forced you to click on the link
They cover it because people are clicking and reading. You just added to the number, thereby encouraging them to have more stories like this.
CNN is a communist propaganda tool of the Democrats and their leader has resigned in disgrace after terrible ratings:
“CNN needs new thinking,” Walton wrote in a note to staff this morning.
It would be hilarious if someone threw him a blunt full of weed.
hahahahahaha!
You brightened my day up Dr.Greenthumb. Hilarious. I taught a horse to smoke once.
what a superficial sense of humor you have (coming from a smoker)
Pathetic. The animal could get lung cancer or some other disease. Then, they would have to euthanize it. Is that funny?
Next they take away his alcohol and wonder why he tore someone's face off.
No, having taken Bill Clinton lessons, she's not inhaling.
Leave him alooooone!!!!
Actually, isn't it a HER?
Typical, it's ALWAYS the man's fault.
i love any writing in cnn, godo bless you all
Bet Red's furious!
Puff, puff...
Hope
A number of years ago, while traveling in Thailand, I saw a pickup truck coming back from harvesting coconuts. The Thai frequently use orangutans to do the havesting; they climb the palms and throw the coconuts to their humans on the ground. Anyway, sitting in the bed of the truck was an orangutan, smoking a cigarette and drinking a beer – just like his human companions.
... well, you know what I mean.
In a hateful, racist kinda way.
CUCKOO for COCOA NUTS
(but, not his)
I think Carpe is his F/P name.
Jealous Carpe, the Clown, My Time
Put you, here...
thank God for life's little pleasures.
Sounds like the citizens of Jakarta don't really deserve to have a zoo. Send the animals elsewhere & close the facility.
they got room for me too? quitting cigs is TOUGH!
The picture of her looks like your typical cigarette smoker.
As a human being on this fragile planet, you should have a more enlightened view. Animals do not exist for our entertainment. They deserve habitats where man can't affect them and they do not interact us, thus preserving their natural behavior, and allowing them to live the lives which they evolved to live. Uneducated people like to project human behaviors and values on them. That is a mistake. There is much you can learn from animals by observing them in their natural state in the natural environment.
Amen!
There was an article a couple days ago about how many Polar Bear Canada kill. If a speices is extinct should tell you to leave them alone. Fire your gun up in the air... they run away. They know home is North.
Anyway, theres a new bill regarding to protecting them
This is very sad for this animal. Orangutans are quite smart and I'm not surprised Tori learned to imitate the zoo visitors. Smoking is a horrible habit. I only hope Tori can be weaned off of the nicotine before any permanent damage is done.
looks like a nice fella I could smoke with
oh I thought this was about Obama
another chain smoking orangutan living in white house is doing fine so far so this one will be doing fine too