In one scene of the film, the 39-year-old actor is seen dragging the chimpanzee named Chance through an office party, Metro.co.uk reported. <img alt="Leonardo DiCaprio" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2013/dec/Leonardo-DiCaprio_1.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 363px;" /> Leonardo DiCaprio. Pic/Santa Banta According to PETA, the chimp was provided by the Rosaire family, notorious for operating a traveling circus that forces chimpanzees to perform cruel and unnatural acts. PETA&rsquo;s primatologist Julia Gallucci wrote in an online petition that someone as committed to environmental concerns, as DiCaprio should know better than to support the well-documented cruelty involved in using great apes for entertainment. She added that PETA is hopes that the next time DiCaprio gets a script with an ape in it, he will remember that the apes are stolen from their mothers at birth and subjected to physical abuse - and he&rsquo;ll demand a rewrite.u00a0

Leonardo DiCaprio has been slammed by PETA for acting alongside a chimp in film 'Wolf Of Wall Street'.

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