Beer-drinking, smoking chimp sent to rehab

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Beer-drinking, smoking chimp sent to rehab

The former performer reportedly pesters zoo passers-by for booze

Tanya Ustinova and Amie Ferris-Rotman

updated 12:02 p.m. ET,

Fri., Feb. 26, 2010

  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 500 miles east of Moscow, for rehabilitation treatment.

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Avatar joker17 -
#1
OMG.....HA HA....I almost shot beer thru my nose when reading the title of this blog......lol

Hee hee hee....

Seems he's making a monkey out of the folks around him. The monkey must've picked these habits by aping what humans do.

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