The Korea Central Zoo in Pyongyang offers visitors a unique blend of wildlife and ideology. Among its 5,000 animals across 650 species, you can find Azalea, a cigarette-smoking chimpanzee, ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea -- Pyongyang's newly opened zoo has a new star: Azalea, the smoking chimpanzee. According to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favorite leisure spot in ...

PYONGYANG, North Korea — Azalea, the smoking chimpanzee, is a star at Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. The 19-year-old female chimp smokes about a pack of cigarettes a day, according to the zoo.

Cigarettes brought Charlie the Smoking Chimp fame and fortune, but did they also kill him? That's the question on ape enthusiasts' minds following news of Charlie's death Tuesday at the age of 52.

Manno has not had any contact with his own kind since the end of 2013 when he was illegally sold to the Dohuk zoo for $15,000 Separated from his mother shortly after birth, Manno the chimpanzee was ...

The tale of Sam the chimp – the controversial beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking chimpanzee once housed at what is now called the Monkey Bar & Grille near Loveland – has been unearthed thanks to a viral ...

JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (Reuters) - 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 ...