Peta’s associate director Elisa Allen agreed, adding: ‘When you see these animals performing what are uncomfortable and stressful tricks, know that they’re not doing it because they want to – they’re doing it because they’re afraid to, often subjected to electric shocks, cigarette burns or beatings if they do not obey in training.
‘Orangutans are also arboreal – they swing through trees – so the act of standing up on curved feet is hard enough for them.
‘Many of those animals who are disrespected and abused at these tacky tourist traps were also torn away from their mothers within days or weeks of birth.’
Metro.co.uk has approached Safari World for comment.
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