Orangutan addicted to smoking cigarettes thrown to her by tourists is removed from 'appalling' zoo

A captive orangutan who would smoke cigarettes thrown to her by zoo visitors is being forced to kick the habit.
Malaysian authorities have seized adult orangutan Shirley from a state-run zoo in the southern Jahor state last week after she was deemed to be living in poor conditions.
The 25-year-old animal is now being quarantined at another zoo in a neighbouring state and is expected to be sent to a wildlife centre on Borneo within weeks.
Melaka Zoo director Ahmad Azhar Mohammed said that Shirley is not being provided with any more cigarettes because 'smoking is not normal behaviour for orangutans'.
The zoo where Shirley lived in Jahor hit the headlines earlier this year because of the appalling conditions animals were kept in.
The female orangutan competed with cage-mate Abu for cigarette butts thrown by tourists to satisfy her smoking habit.
A 'no smoking' sign was put up outside her cage, but authorities did nothing to stop people throwing the cigarettes inside.