Disconnected Rumblings

Friday, April 15, 2005

Hilarious!

And now for something completely different!

Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking

I'm not kidding.
"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, zoo officials told the SAPA news agency on Thursday."
The kicker in this article I think is this last little bit.
"Charlie is not the only smoking chimpanzee. A zoo in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou reported last year that one of its chimps had taken up smoking and was desperately bumming cigarette butts off visitors."
Oh man the picture in my head of a chimp desperately bumming cigarettes off of visitors just cracks me up.

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming. (Don't smoke kids!)
posted by digitaljay @ 9:51 PM MST

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