Russian boxer sparks anger after giving orangutan her vape to puff

A Russ­ian box­er has sparked anger after she gave her vape to an orang­utan at a safari park.

Anas­ta­sia Luchk­i­na, a 24-year-old who has rep­re­sent­ed Rus­sia at inter­na­tion­al lev­el before turn­ing pro­fes­sion­al last month, filmed her­self giv­ing her e‑cigarette to Dana, a 10-year-old female orang­utan who lives at Taigan safari park in Crimea.

In the video, Luchk­i­na can be seen puff­ing on a pink vape and blow­ing out vapor before hold­ing it to Dana’s lips through one of the holes in the enclo­sure.

The orang­utan puffed on the vape before blow­ing out a plume of vapor. Luchk­i­na then repeat­ed this on mul­ti­ple occa­sions before Dana could be seen swal­low­ing the tip of the vape.

The safari park’s vet­eri­nar­i­an, Vasi­ly Piskovoy, has since revealed that Dana has become ill from the vape.

While smok­ing, Dana took the cap off the vape and put it in her mouth,’ Piskovoy said.

Anas­ta­sia Luchk­i­na was seen hand­ing her vape to Dana the orang­utan

 wor­ried that Dana might swal­low the cap, because this plas­tic can cause intesti­nal block­age and vom­it­ing.

‘Today, she’s already eat­ing poor­ly, feel­ing unwell, and sleep­ing all day.

‘If there is an intesti­nal block­age, then all respon­si­bil­i­ty will fall on the shoul­ders of this girl. Danochka is like a child. She will put every­thing in her mouth, and God for­bid, she might swal­low it. 

‘This is very dan­ger­ous. It is not so dan­ger­ous that she smoked, although this is also very bad, as it is dan­ger­ous if she swal­lowed this cap, then, God for­bid, Dana will have to be oper­at­ed on.’

The safari park’s press sec­re­tary, Tatyana Alek­sag­i­na, revealed that Dana lives alone in her enclo­sure.

‘This is clear­ly inten­tion­al cru­el­ty to an ani­mal. She knew exact­ly what she was doing and def­i­nite­ly harmed the ani­mal. This is a crime,’ Alek­sag­i­na said.

‘More­over, there are only a few orang­utans in Rus­sia now. Because of the sanc­tions, no one can bring them, and they prac­ti­cal­ly do not repro­duce in cap­tiv­i­ty, unlike chim­panzees. Orang­utans live alone.

‘Rarely in a zoo, except per­haps in Moscow, is there both a male and a female. We have been look­ing for a mate for Dana for five years now.’

Luchinka’s coach, Vladimir Aka­tov, told TASS that she is now fac­ing ‘expul­sion’ from the sport over the inci­dent.