Don’t feel bad, Amy Winehouse: Even apes have to go to rehab sometimes. At least one Russian chimpanzee did, if a Reuters report is to be believed. According to a Russian newspaper, Zhora got aggressive at his first home—a circus—before being sent to a zoo, where he picked up a couple of bad habits: smoking and drinking beer. He would even “pester passers-by for booze,” the paper reports, before being transferred to a new city for rehabilitation treatment.
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