In the photos, the chimp appears almost human as she puffs on a cigarette. NK News reported North Korea has stocked the zoo with exotic animals from countries all over the world, with many of the deals raising red flags among animal rights campaigners. The zoo has also been criticized in the past for keeping animals in extremely inadequate conditions and even instigating staged fights. A 19-year-old female chimpanzee named Azalea rose to internet fame on Wednesday after The Associated Press published photos that show her smoking in an exhibition in the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. To start, this is not the first time animal rights activists and campaigners have had their eyes on this zoo for questionable practices. In fact, according to The Guardian, visitors have been having quite a laugh at the smoking chimp, snapping photos for social media and generally having a ball watching the spectacle.Īs terribly sad as this whole situation is, we honestly can’t say that we’re all that surprised. SMOKING has long been pinned as an unattractive, unhealthy trait but for one chimp it was a habit forced upon her for the sake of amusing zoo guests.
To make matters worse, spectators at North Korea’s Central Zoo in Pyongyang are not all that upset about it. If this isn’t animal abuse, we don’t know what is. To avoid unsettling the delicate balance within the troop, and the creation of deadly rivalries, Manno will be slowly introduced to the other. To say we’re skeptical as to how true that claim is would be an understatement. RELATED: Smoking Chimp Fires Up Crowds in North Korea. The chimpanzee that zoo employees claim is not actually inhaling the smoke from this cigarette, just puffing on it. After taking a few puffs, the chimpanzee drops the cigarette to the ground.This is Azalea. It shows the 15-year-old chimpanzee holding the cigarette between his fingers before smoking it. The video, which has now received millions of views, was taken by a visitor. During the 1950s and 1960s Zippy the Chimp made frequent appearances on popular network television programs like The Ed Sullivan Show entertaining viewers.
#Smoking chimpanzee pro#
The footage shows a chimpanzee at the Hefei Wildlife Park in China smoking cigarettes like a pro after a tourist allegedly threw one inside the monkey enclosure. Now, a video of another primate has gone viral and it comes with a statutory warning – Smoking cigarettes is injurious to health. The intelligent primate was seated on the ground inside an enclosure in a Miami Zoo while he made hand gestures and moved his head to tell visitors not to give him food.Ī few months before that, a video of monkey washing clothes like a human became a rage on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
They are also quick learners and pick-up human traits by just noticing them over a period of time.Įarlier this week, a viral clip showed a fully-grown gorilla using sign language to tell visitors he cannot be fed. Primates are known to be very inquisitive about things they have never seen before.
Two of the chimps, King and Felipa, were killed, while Cheeta survived after emergency treatment from vets. According to reports, an unnamed spokesperson from the zoo hit back at the criticism by saying the chimp had only one cigarette and nothing bad can happen from that The three rescue animals - called King, Cheeta and Felipa - went on the rampage on Friday at the popular Oasis Park in Fueteventura, with police eventually having to shoot them with live ammunition after attempts to tranquilize them failed.
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