‘Charlie the Smoking Chimp’ was famous for his habit, picked up from visitors to his South African zoo, of smoking lit cigarettes.
But the zoo announced that the ape had finally died, aged 52. Most chimpanzees live to around 40.
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Qondile Khedama, a spokesman for Mangaung Zoo, said Charlie was only an ‘occasional smoker’, but had none the less become famous around the world for the habit.
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