Female Chimp Seen Smoking Cigarette That Tourists Threw Inside Enclosure At China Zoo
A video of a female chimpanzee smoking a cigarette at a China zoo is creating waves online. Some tourists had allegedly discarded a lit cigarette into the enclosure. The 15-year-old chimp picked it up took a puff and threw it with the &lsquomic drop&rsquo gesture.
Chimps are smart primates. They are known to communicate with humans via signs and also understand them. Be it a primate closing a tap after drinking water from it or one cleaning clothes, videos of primates doing human things better than humans have been going viral for sometime now.
Now, a video of a female chimpanzee smoking a cigarette at a China zoo is creating waves online. Some tourists had allegedly discarded a lit cigarette into the enclosure and the 15-year-old chimp picked it up, took a puff and threw it with the ¡®mic drop¡¯ gesture.
Talking about the incident and the potential harm of smoking cigarettes a zoo worker reportedly said, ¡°It had one cigarette. Nothing bad will come of that. Humans smoke for tens of years.¡±
Can the staff really be blamed for negligence? The worker said that it is difficult to keep an eye on every tourist that visits the zoo. He reportedly said, ¡°We have tens of thousands of tourists a day, but only more than 100 workers.¡±
It is actually the fault of the tourist who carelessly tossed the cigarette in the chimp enclosure.
