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post Apr 27 2005, 03:00 AM
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I can't believe this is true!! Talking about trying to quit cold turkey!!

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 cadging cigarette butts off visitors.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 04:02 AM
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omg... i seriously never thought animials smoke.. hahahhahaa this is so funny..
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 08:28 AM
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awww, poor monkey. that's so horrible! sad.gif
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 08:42 AM
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how interesting. poor monkey.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 11:21 AM
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that is possibly th emost hideous thing i have everheard

so kudos for that
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 12:13 PM
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gesh that crazy..Sad too
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 01:28 PM
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Not really entertainment...Moving to the lounge =)
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 01:55 PM
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sad, yet SO FRIKIN FUNNY!!! *clears throat* sorry about that...sweating.gif
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 01:57 PM
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wow , thats a weird thought.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 02:02 PM
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Animals in captivity, perhaps one of the most evil things humans have ever created. For more shock stories I reccomend reading about killer whales in Seaworld, disgusting stuff.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 02:09 PM
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"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.


hahah i think that line is especially hilarious. it shows how much humans and monkeys are alike.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 02:20 PM
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it shows how much humans and monkeys are alike.

I was just about to say that. laugh.gif It's scary how closely related we are. *Giggles* Tee hee. That was pretty funny, though. Did they give him a patch? rolleyes.gif
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 05:15 PM
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This guy came to our school to talk about how ciggarettes were really bad and he had a pet monkey that would get high on everything..
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 05:19 PM
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I thought children pick up bad things from adults. Now even animals do. That's really, really sad.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 05:27 PM
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Sad monkey.... mellow.gif
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 05:41 PM
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thats funny. omg never woulda thought monkeys could be addicted to cigs
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 06:04 PM
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Daaang! haha they are becoming more and more like us humans. I wonder if they'll get cancer.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 06:05 PM
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Man, how the hell did these monkeys OBTAIN these cigarettes in the first place?!
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 06:08 PM
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woa. i didn't know monkeys could smoke lol
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 06:31 PM
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Wow..That's sad. =\ Maybe they should start throwing in that gum that helps them quit. pinch.gif
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 06:47 PM
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Well, obviously you know a human got it to smoke. So, yeah, thats bad. I'm glad hes stopping though..
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 06:52 PM
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Wow, that sucks. People need to seriously stop throwing stuff into the monkey's area. Sheesh, there's this invention called a trash can. Wonder if anyone's heard of it rolleyes.gif
 
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That's just really sad. mellow.gif
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 07:20 PM
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I heard that on the news.

Rofl, hearing/seeing a monkey smoke just seems surreal, but funny, but it was on the news!

Smoking is bad enough. Bad people smoking and teaching a poor monkey! I love monkeys!
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 07:31 PM
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I get my turtle to smoke cigs all the time, his a pro now.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 08:09 PM
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Awww, that's so sad pinch.gif
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 08:13 PM
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monkeyy !? lol ..=X pretty sad.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 08:31 PM
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im sorry but i think its funny and yet really really sad
 
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awww... poor monkey.

put him [or her?] in rehab. he can learn to quit from the people learning to quit.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 09:05 PM
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I heard of that before on the news. I think it's wrong how they let chimps smoke like that. They can get lung cancer from doing that.
 
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that's sad and funny in a cruel way at the same time. it reminds me of that experiment that some officials did with i think.. rats or monkeys and cocaine or some other drug. hum.
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 09:46 PM
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i didn't even know you were aloud to smoke in zoos... huh.gif poor chimp
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 09:51 PM
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LMAO chimps smoking? hahhaha that's pretty funny. wow lOls. >< next thing you know they'll be getting high.. and who knows what'll happen :x
 
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post Apr 27 2005, 11:33 PM
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I don't think this is funny or amusing at all. This is practically animal abuse. It just shows how disgusting humans are and how they're passing down their sick perversions down to innocent animals.
 
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post Apr 28 2005, 04:08 AM
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That's really stupid.
I feel sorry for the monkey, I really do.
 
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post Apr 28 2005, 09:43 PM
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Ya i heard about this too!!! People are soo dumb sometimes.
 
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post Apr 28 2005, 09:47 PM
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QUOTE(sharerol @ Apr 27 2005, 4:31 PM)
Wow..That's sad.  =\  Maybe they should start throwing in that gum that helps them quit.  pinch.gif
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XD What if they swallow it? Cuz I was thinking that and then that came up.
 
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I thought smoking ciggrates in zoos werent allowed. a man go kicked out once.
 
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post Apr 28 2005, 09:51 PM
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haha thats interesting, yet awesome. chimp will have black lungs soon enough haha
 
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