Images of smoking orangutan go viral

INDONESIA can now add a smoking orangutan to its list of nicotine addicts.

A video 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.

The images of 22-year-old Bornean orangutan Ozon at the zoo in Bandung, about 150km southeast of Jakarta, promptly went viral this week.

Animal activists condemned the visitor’s action, but said it underlined the poor state of Indonesia’s zoos. –