Watch: Russian boxer gives e-cigarette to orangutan; video sparks outrage

Russian boxer Anastasia Luchkina is facing wide disapproval aft a video went viral showing her handing an e-cigarette to an orangutan astatine the Taigan Safari Park successful Crimea, arsenic reported by the New York Post.The orangutan, named Dana, aboriginal displayed “disturbing” behavior, according to Russian outlet zamin.uz. Dana has reportedly mislaid her appetite, refuses to interact with others, and “lies motionless passim the day.” She has lived astatine the safari parkland since 2018.In the video, Luchkina is seen vaping herself earlier offering it to Dana and past smoking again. It is feared that the orangutan whitethorn person swallowed the e-cigarette cartridge, which contains betwixt 2.5–3 ml of nicotine liquid.

Veterinarians are continuing to analyse Dana, with trial results expected successful the coming days.Dana belongs to an endangered taxon of orangutans listed connected the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.“I didn’t cognize Anastasia was a smoker,” Luchkina’s coach, Vladimir Akatov said. “She is presently connected vacation. We volition decidedly sermon this substance erstwhile she returns.”The incidental sparked outrage connected societal media.One idiosyncratic connected X commented: “This is carnal abuse.

It shouldn’t beryllium celebrated successful immoderate way.”Another wrote: “Has determination been immoderate enactment yet, oregon are they waiting for the orangutan to record an authoritative ailment against Anastasia Luchkina?”PETA UK vice president Mimi Bekhechi told SunSport arsenic quoted by NY Post: “Anastasia Luchkina indispensable person received a fewer excessively galore knocks to the caput if she thinks it’s a lark to springiness an orangutan a vape…a usurpation of this intelligent, gentle ape’s welfare.”