Chimp smokes cigarattes

By at 8:53 am Monday, Apr 18

Charlie, a chimp who lives at the Bloemfontein Zoo in South Africa, has picked up smoking. Apparently, idiotic visitors to the zoo toss him the cigs for a laff. From Reuters:
"Baby chimps pick up habits by mimicking adults and we think he started mimicking smokers at his enclosure which probably led to smokers throwing him cigarettes," spokesman Daryl Barnes (said)...

"He even acts like a naughty schoolboy by hiding the cigarette when staff approach the area," Barnes said, adding that the zoo was determined to help him quit.
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