Featured Image Credit: Anastasia Luchkina
Topics: UFC
Nasir Jabbar
An MMA fighter has been slammed following a disgusting incident with an orangutan at a zoo.
Anastasia Luchkina, who has one professional boxing fight to her name, went viral but for all the wrong reasons.
A video of the 24-year-old sharing a vape with an orangutan has sent social media wild, with the Russian fighter condemned for her actions.
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Luchkina, who shared the footage online, is seen taking a drag of the vape before handing it to the orangutan through a wired fence at the Taigan Safari Park in Crimea.
The primate inhales the vape before exhaling a cloud of vapour.
The caged animal took several puffs from the vape in the clip that has since been slammed by PETA.
PETA UK vice president Mimi Bekhechi criticised Luchkina and warned people of the 'negligence'.
"Anastasia Luchkina must have received a few too many knocks to the head if she thinks it’s a lark to give an orangutan a vape," she told SunSport.
"A violation of this intelligent, gentle ape’s welfare.
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"Taigan Safari Park has a shocking track record of negligence, including allowing staff and tourists to enter the lion’s pen, already resulting in one fatal attack and two other people injured, and taking money to allow visitors to have their photos taken handling wild animals.
"Anyone who cares about protecting animals should support programs to preserve their natural habitats, where they can enjoy natural behaviours, and reject these glorified prisons that objectify sensitive animals for social media laughs."
Despite being given the vape, it has been claimed that the orangutan is fine.
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Luchkina could be fined and banned from the safari park as a result of her irresponsible stunt.
Luchkina hasn't fought since last month's King of the Himalayan Ring in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
She suffered a unanimous decision defeat to Indian fighter Vinaskshi by unanimous decision.