This is the heartbreaking moment an orangutan smokes a cigarette in front of visitors at a zoo in Vietnam.
Video shows the male orangutan taking a couple of drags of the cigarette before stubbing it out like a hardened smoker at the Saigon Zoo in Ho Chi Minh City.
Staff at the zoo said the orangutan had picked up the cigarette after it had been discarded in the animal’s enclosure by a visitor.
The intelligent animal had then learned how to use it by watching humans smoke, staff said.
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