A chimpanzee once hooked on smoking by visitors offering it cigarettes has died at a South African zoo at the relatively advanced age of 52, officials said on Wednesday. "He appears to have died of old age," said municipal spokesman Qondile Khedama. An autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death. "Charlie the smoking chimp" used to put two fingers to his mouth to mimic smoking and reach out with his other hand to bum cigarette butts from visitors at Bloemfontein Zoo. But when videos of him puffing away circulated globally a few years ago, zoo officials moved to cut off the supply of smokes. The nickname stuck even though the cigarette habit faded. The life expectancy for chimps in the wild is about 15 years and only 7 percent of wild chimps live past 40, a Harvard University report published in 2007 said.
Uhhh how am I just finding out about Charlie the smoking chimp? He sounds kind of awesome. I think smoking cigarettes is fucking gross but not when it's a chimp in a zoo. What else are you gonna do? Do chimps wrestle? I'd be interested in seeing grown gorillas go at it in a cage match.Whatever. There's nothing I can do in this situation besides go outside and tip a 40 for our fallen soldier. First Randy Moss then Coach Neil and now Charlie the smoking chimp. Today just aint our day, fellas. Smoke on, boss dog. Smoke that shit.
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