PETA blasts Florida Playboy model for using wild animals as ‘selfie accessories’ after she posted staged videos of a lemur and an elephant accidentally delving into her shirt – after it was claimed she ‘deliberately hid snacks in her cleavage’
- Content creator Francia James was on cover of Playboy Africa in May this year
- Social media users accused her of placing something edible down her top
- PETA director, Elisa Allen, accused Ms James of using animal as selfie accessory
A Playboy cover model has been slammed by PETA after she was accused of staging a video in which a lemur burrows into her cleavage.
Francia James, who was on the cover of Playboy Africa in May this year, posted a video on her Instagram of a lemur scrabbling down her top at an animal sanctuary.
But she came under fire from PETA when she was accused of coaxing the animal into her top by placing some kind of food there just before she began recording.
Ms James, who now works a full-time content creator and lives in Miami, Florida, had taken a trip to the Chase Animal Rescue Sanctuary center in Webster, Florida, for a private tour of the enclosures.
She captioned the video: ‘Did y’all know lemurs were this frisky? How would you act the first time meeting me?’
Francia James came under fire from PETA when she was accused of coaxing a lemur into her top (left) by placing some kind of food down her top just before she began recording. She posted a similar video of an elephant that continually reached its trunk towards her cleavage earlier this year
But many social media users called her out in the comments section and accused her of putting something down her top.
One wrote: ‘You know you put food down there to bait him.’
While another said: ‘All staged they put something there for him to lick.’
During the video Ms James is seen running around while she screams: ‘Oh my God, what should I do?’
At the beginning of the video a red stain can be seen at the bottom of Ms James’s top, suggesting a berry may have been placed down there to entice the lemur.
During the video Ms James is seen running around while she screams: ‘Oh my God, what should I do?’
She then trips on a lawn chair and the frazzled creature immediately bounces off her chest and runs off in the opposite direction.
PETA’s Director Elisa Allen said: ‘Lemurs are among the world’s most endangered mammals. These intelligent, social animals belong in Madagascan forests, where they can engage in natural behaviour, not in some shady pseudo-sanctuary that allows humans to grope wild animals for Instagram ‘likes’.
‘We hope in the future Ms James will think twice and refuse to patronize attractions that treat animals as selfie accessories rather than the sensitive living beings they are.’
And this isn’t the first time Ms James has had a supposedly candid interaction with an animal who appeared to be attracted to her cleavage.
In June she posted a video of an elephant extending its trunk towards her breasts while she poses next to it.
James, who was on the cover of Playboy Africa in May this year, was called out by other social media users and accused her of putting something down her top to entice the lemur
Having viewed the elephant video Ms Allen added: ‘Myrtle Beach Safari is a dire roadside zoo – meaning a collection of enclosures in which ‘exotic’ animals have been dumped in order to be put on display for paying tourists.
‘The owner of this establishment has been cited on numerous occasions by the US Department of Agriculture for failing to provide animals with veterinary care – or even enough space to move about – among other violations of minimum legal standards.’