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Chimp Quits Smoking After 16 Years
BEIJING (Oct. 3) - A chimpanzee in a northwest China zoo has quit smoking after 16 years with the help of her keepers, official media reported.
The staff, worried about her declining health, weaned 27-year-old "Ai Ai" off tobacco by distracting her with entertainment and a tastier diet, Xinhua news agency said.
"The zoo keepers tried every way to divert the chimp's attention from cigarettes: a walk after breakfast, a music session after lunch and gym after dinner," Xinhua said.
She also got fried dishes and dumplings, as well as the usual diet of milk, bananas and rice, said one zoo keeper.
"I also put earphones on her so that she could enjoy some pop music from my walkman," he said.
"In the first few days, she squealed for cigarettes every now and then, but as her life became more colorful she gradually forgot about them altogether."
Xinhua attributed Ai Ai's habit to solitude and grief.
Living in a safari park in Shaanxi province, she had taken up smoking in 1989 shortly after her mate died, it said. Then she had become a chain smoker after her second mate died in 1997 and her daughter was moved to another zoo.
Xinhua did not say who had first given cigarettes to her or kept supplying them.
The Xian Evening News said the zoo was trying to find another mate for her.
10/03/05 10:43 ET
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Living in a safari park in Shaanxi province, she had taken up smoking in 1989 shortly after her mate died, it said. Then she had become a chain smoker after her second mate died in 1997 and her daughter was moved to another zoo.
Um, no. She's a chimp. She took up smoking after a human being gave her cigarettes and showed her how to smoke them.
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Living in a safari park in Shaanxi province, she had taken up smoking in 1989 shortly after her mate died, it said. Then she had become a chain smoker after her second mate died in 1997 and her daughter was moved to another zoo.
Um, no. She's a chimp. She took up smoking after a human being gave her cigarettes and showed her how to smoke them.
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I saw this story on the news. After they got patrons to stop giving her cigarettes they found that she had been hiding a bunch around her enclosure.
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I saw this story on the news. After they got patrons to stop giving her cigarettes they found that she had been hiding a bunch around her enclosure.
so, does she light them herself? how would she do that without opposable thumbs? chimps using fire.... i guess some human lit them for her?
seriously, i want to know.
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B wrote:
I saw this story on the news. After they got patrons to stop giving her cigarettes they found that she had been hiding a bunch around her enclosure.
so, does she light them herself? how would she do that without opposable thumbs? chimps using fire.... i guess some human lit them for her?
seriously, i want to know.
I don't know. Maybe she lights each one off the last one.
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I love how the article blames the chimp's smoking habit on itself. For christs sake its a caged animal...SOMEONE had to give it cigarettes, teach it how to smoke and continue to feed it's habit for 16 years.
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whats the life span of the chimp, I only ask that because I'm beginning to think that this chimp started smoking as a pre-teen and if so I can only imagine how cool this lady must of been to the impressionable youth.
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I saw this story on the news. After they got patrons to stop giving her cigarettes they found that she had been hiding a bunch around her enclosure.
so, does she light them herself? how would she do that without opposable thumbs? chimps using fire.... i guess some human lit them for her?
seriously, i want to know.
have you seriously never seen a primate in real life (look in the mirror)? Chimps HAVE opposable thumbs, just like all primates do.
Let's not act like chimps are big dumb animals who aren't capable of feeling distress after a mate or child leaves, or aren't capable of cuddling. Do you all realize that a chimpanzee's DNA is 96% the same as a human's DNA (thought it was closer to 99% but they just revised that number about a month ago)
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I don't know. Maybe she lights each one off the last one.
