'Before joining the other chimpanzees, he has to remain in quarantine for a while,' to ensure that Manno does not have any diseases that could be transmitted to the reserve's 36 other residents, said Stephen Ngulu, a veterinarian and the chimp sanctuary's director. After several days travelling in a small wooden box, Manno arrived on November 30 at the chimpanzee sanctuary within the Ol Pejeta conservancy at the foot of Mount Kenya, which has been taking in endangered chimpanzees since 1993. 'On the trip between Dohuk and Erbil airport, the convoy carrying him was, at the closest, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Mosul,' where fierce battles are under way between the Iraqi army and the Islamic State group, said Daniel Stiles of the Project to End Great Ape Slavery (PEGAS).

Then came help from several conservation groups, and Manno's days as a spectacle - and smoker - are now over after arriving at a chimpanzee sanctuary in Kenya a week ago. The four-year-old would also be dressed as a child and fed soda and sweets - giving him near permanent diarrhoea - before being locked in a small cage every night in a private zoo in the Kurdish city of Dohuk.

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.Separated from his mother shortly after birth, Manno the chimpanzee was smuggled to Iraq and spent his days smoking cigarettes handed to him by amused zoo visitors and posing for pictures. 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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