Recently, a video of an orangutan smoking at the Tianshan Wildlife Park in Urumqi, Xinjiang, went viral. Arouse heated discussions among netizens! In the video, the orangutan squats in the corner of the wall, skillfully smoking, and even spitting smoke rings.
There are also many tourists around holding up their mobile phones to take pictures. According to the zoo staff's response, there may be old visitors who know that it smokes, so they handed it a cigarette, which should have been handed in after the tourist who took the video lit the fire. Exotic food feeding is prohibited in zoos.
However, as early as 2012, there were media reports that 17-year-old orangutans imported from Beijing at Xinjiang's Tianshan Zoo had a habit of smoking and would light their own cigarettes with lighters. And the orangutan later learned to pick up the cap of the beer bottle and drink beer.
As we all know, orangutans are the closest animal to man! It can also imitate many human behaviors, so humans always want to study orangutans. There was once an orangutan in the United States called Coco who learned more than 1,000 sign languages. Coco also said that she hoped to have children of her own, but she refused to have children with close relatives, and later lost her fertility due to the death of her companion. When Coco was 11 years old, asked what gift she wanted, she said she wanted a kitten. He brought three kittens for him to choose from, but he chose a gray kitten and named the kitten "Pol".
There is another orangutan in the United States named Shatke, who was adopted by a psychologist for 8 years, learned a lot of sign language, and can also invent sign language himself. Also went to college. However, due to an attack on people, he was put in an iron cage in the zoo and eventually suffered from depression. Someone once asked Shattke are you an orangutan? It replied in sign language "I am both an orangutan and a human." Every time its adopter goes to see it, it uses sign language to say "Mom, I want to go home." Like human beings, he lived freely for 8 years and was put in a narrow iron cage. Man gave it all, and in the end, deprived it of everything it had, and its final outcome can only be depression.
There are also many movies about orangutans. For example, "King Kong", "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" and so on, the orangutans in it are not only smart, but also have human feelings. In fact, the IQ of orangutans depends on humans. Humans "do not do it themselves", how can orangutans become so smart.