Smoking orangutan moved to more isolated and better habitat

Tori, a 13-year-old female orangutan at Central Java's Taru Jrung Zoo, has been moved to a new island habitat at the facility so she can quit smoking. Apparently, she picked up the habit because idiot zoo visitors would toss lit cigarettes into her enclosure for fun. From the Center for Orangutan Protection:

Lilik Kristianto, the Director of Taru Jurug zoo, stated as follows:
“One of zoo problems in Indonesia is the visitors tease the animals. Although there is a signage to do not give food or cigarette to the animals, but the people are still doing it and make a fun of it. Even, sometimes the visitors are trying to hurt the animals. This relocation is a permanent solution for this problem, and also providing better facilities that resemble to their habitat in the wild. Tori can climb to 5 big trees in this island. This could be one of the best enclosure in Indonesia.”

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perch

The animal is in a zoo, let the poor creature smoke FFS.
- http://twitter.com/templetonpeck templetonpeck
  
  exactly!
  
  The fact she’s in a CAGE is the sad part.
  
  Let the monkeys smoke!
- malindrome
  
  If you take away the cigarettes, what are orangutangs gonna trade for shivs and handjobs?
PhosPhorious

Finally, she’ll be able to get that monkey off her back.
show me

These kids in the hall, once they taught a dog to smoke.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4FUD4VOOO53VZJ7HLWAL3MMTIQ Joe F

Are they going to shave some hair off her arm so she can start using the patch? Or are they able to chew gum?
Editz

Don’t they cane people in that country? Cane them for screwing with the zoo animals.
niktemadur

One of zoo problems in Indonesia is the visitors tease the animals… Even, sometimes the visitors are trying to hurt the animals.

It’s clearly stated that the problem is chronic, so WHY is that zoo still open to the public? A zoo should be available to a society that deserves it. Some parts of the Pacific Rim, I tell ya…
BombBlastLightingWaltz

Yeah, Pacific rim, where 2 year olds smoke, so what the problem with letting caged monkeys smoke?