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.

JOHANNESBURG — 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, official… ...

Charlie, the smoking chimp, dead at 52 By Reuters Published Oct 07, 2010 Last updated 14 years ago ...

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.

Charlie the Smoking Chimp became famous around the world after picking up the bad habit from visitors to his South African zoo. Qondile Khedama, from Mangaung Zoo, near Bloemfontein, said Charlie ...

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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 ...

The tourists laugh and seem delighted with the smoking chimp. The chimpanzee has been identified as 20-year-old Jia Ku who lives at Tianshan zoo in Xinjiang, China.