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Disturbing footage from a zoo in Thailand shows a chimpanzee forced to sanitize the facility from the coronavirus.
The clip from the Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo near Bangkok, obtained by The Sun, captures the poor primate — wearing a surgical face mask, denim shorts and an orange Hawaiian shirt — pedaling a kid’s bike with a disinfectant tank strapped to the back.
Animal rights group PETA slammed the zoo and called the treatment of the chimp “heartbreaking.”
“Places like Samutprakarn Crocodile Farm and Zoo are hellholes where animals like this chimpanzee endure miserable lives in captivity every single day,” PETA Asia spokesman Nirali Shah told the outlet. “They are routinely mistreated and know little more than chains. When they’re not used for human ‘entertainment,’ they are held in cramped cages.”
PETA has lodged an official complaint with Thai police, urging them to inspect the zoo.
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Article URL: https://nypost.com/2020/04/16/zoo-forces-chimp-to-ride-bike-spray-park-with-coronavirus-disinfectant/