Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking

Pretty amazing how much  monkey are similar to us. Reuters has this story: A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad 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, .....He even acts like a naughty schoolboy by hiding the cigarette when staff approach the area."

the zoo said they were:

"determined to help him quit."

I let you comment on this :-)

Comments

[Natt Smith]

Keep on smoking Cheetah. No matter what THEY say.

[exsmoker]

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