Too Bad It's Not Bernanke: Boozy Chimp Sent To Rehab
Feb 26, 2010 at 4:25 PM
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Smoking Chimp Drinking

Ai Ai, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, enjoys a cigarette after a meal in his glass enclosure at the zoo in Xian, in central China's Shaanxi province.  He has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday.

Relax.  It's Friday.

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MOSCOW - A Russian chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by zookeepers to cure the smoking and beer-drinking habits he has picked up, a popular daily reported on Friday.  An ex-performer, Zhora became aggressive at his circus and was transferred to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov, where he fathered several baby chimps, learned to draw with markers and picked up his two vices.

"The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze," the Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.

It added he has now been transferred to the city of Kazan, about 800 km (500 miles) east of Moscow, for rehabilitation treatment.

 

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