The animal rights group said it went to court for Cathy Breaux, 62, and Holly Reynolds, 96, who have campaigned for decades to get Candy moved from the Dixie Landin’ park and its predecessor. “It seems that if they want her to have company, she doesn’t want it.” “She was returned because she couldn’t adjust and couldn’t assimilate,” Treadway-Morris said. She also cited a letter from a veterinarian stating that an attempt to retire Candy to the Baton Rouge Zoo failed. Fish and Wildlife Service cannot make rules retroactive. However, she said, government agencies such as the U.S. Jennifer Treadway-Morris, attorney for park owner Sam Haynes, said she had not had time to read the lawsuit. 14, changes captive chimps’ classification from threatened to endangered, the same classification as wild chimpanzees. That rule, which was made public in June and took effect Sept. The lawsuit is the first filed under a new federal rule that requires captive chimps get the same protection as wild chimps, said Carter Dillard, the group’s attorney. Just as with humans, cigarette smoking is very harmful for chimpanzees,” and letting her smoke violates the Endangered Species Act, the suit states. “Defendants have for decades allowed members of the general public to throw items into Candy’s cage, including lit cigarettes that Candy smokes. In October 2016 a video showing a chimpanzee lighting and smoking a cigarette at a zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea went viral, after officials claimed she smoked a pack a day.NEW ORLEANS - An animal rights group is suing to get a chimpanzee named Candy out of an amusement park where, it says, she smokes cigarettes and is given soft drinks instead of water.Ĭandy is isolated in an inadequate cage at the Baton Rouge park, and should be moved to a sanctuary, according to the federal suit filed in Baton Rouge on Tuesday by the Animal Legal Defense Fund. The addiction often starts when the animals pick up and smoke discarded cigarette butts. Tobacco smoking monkeys and apes are nothing new. It is not clear where the film originated. He then picks it back up and repositions himself several times before moving to a corner, where he takes deep drags and exhales smoke from his nose and mouth like seasoned smoker. Midway through the clip, the animal takes puffs while holds the cigarette between its index fingers before putting it down to scratch his head and play with a stick. The animal seems to be transfixed with smoking a cigarette as the excited voices of a French man, woman and child can be heard to comment. In the midst of the crisis elsewhere another video titled ‘human monkey’ has appeared online of a smoking chimp in a zoo enclosure. The government has tested less than 2,000 people, of which 110 were confirmed cases, while globally the number of those infected is set to stop one million this week. South China Morning Post report Cambodia’s coronavirus cases have spiked, forcing the government to ban travellers from countries including US and Italy. Monkey bites screaming girl in horror rampage through city after escaping from flat.Zoo animals will not survive coronavirus outbreak because of selfish stockpilers.Namwan a 10-year-old female monkey, takes a puff on a cigarette (Image: Reuters) Read More Related Articles
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