Smoking Chimp Tries to Kick Habit
Posted Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 1:01 pm
From this:
A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a smoking habit.
Charlie, a grown male chimp and the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them - a habit he probably picked up by observing humans, zoo officials told the SAPA news agency on Thursday...
...A zoo in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou reported last year that one of its chimps had taken up smoking and was desperately cadging cigarette butts off visitors.
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eh (not verified)
Tue, 04/19/2005 - 08:45
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Maybe they could teach him to read the warning label.
Cheese_tensor (not verified)
Mon, 04/18/2005 - 13:54
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Why do the net-wide repetitions of this article seem to all say "...Chimp tries to kick habit..."?
The chimp is not "trying" anything of the sort. His human keepers are cutting him off cold-turkey. In a day or two I bet the furry guy will be homicidal. And hurting, big-time.
But...the poor little fuck will probably have better luck quiting than most humans. We - for the most part - don't have keepers (except for the Smoke Gestapo in various cities) to enforce the no-smoking rule.