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Thread: I need a banana...........and a cigarette....

  1. #1
    Rod-64

    Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
    Fri Apr 15, 2005 08:39 AM ET
    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - 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.
    "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 told SAPA.
    Barnes said Charlie was already showing the signs of a true nicotine addict.
    "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.
    Barnes said the most important thing was that people stop providing Charlie with cigarettes or any other treats, noting the chimp already had three bad teeth because of all the cans of sweet soft drinks that people throw at him.
    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.

  2. #2
    dicudmore
    lol...thats funny...
    you suppose they throw them to him already lit??

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  4. #4
    JBmagic

    Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
    Fri Apr 15, 2005 08:39 AM ET
    JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - 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.
    "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 told SAPA.
    Barnes said Charlie was already showing the signs of a true nicotine addict.
    "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.
    Barnes said the most important thing was that people stop providing Charlie with cigarettes or any other treats, noting the chimp already had three bad teeth because of all the cans of sweet soft drinks that people throw at him.
    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.
    Sounds kinda like RD

  5. #5
    Beer Factor
    That's too funny. I read that a couple of weeks ago in the newspaper.

  6. #6
    Jordy
    Banana ....yes!!
    http://www.strangecosmos.com/images/content/106015.gif
    Now where have I seen her before??? LOL Damn Avatar Nazi's on RRL won't let me use her anymore. :burningm:
    RD SUX!!!!

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