If a lighter isn’t available, she can light up from lit cigarette if one is tossed her way. If a lighter isn’t available, she can light up from lit cigarette if one is tossed her way.” The zoo officials however claim that Azalea does not inhale the smoke though. Dallae is short for Azalea.Īccording to an AP report, “Thrown a lighter by a zoo trainer, the chimpanzee lights her own cigarettes. According to zoo officials, the 19-year-old female chimpanzee, whose name in Korean is “Dallae”, smokes about a pack a day. Wondering how animals are within the ambit of harmful effects of smoking? Well, a chimpanzee at a zoo in North Korea has taken the Internet by storm after videos of her smoking cigarettes emerged.Ī chimpanzee named Azalea has become been an Internet sensation, and reports suggest she’s a star at the refurbished Central zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. Smoking is injurious to health we have been told numerous times, not just for us humans, but also for animals. The zoo actually dates back to 1959, when Kim Il Sung, the nation’s first leader and the grandfather of Kim Jong Un, ordered it built on the outskirts of the city.Īccording to its official history, the zoo started off with only 50 badgers.Azalea, a 19-year-old female chimpanzee whose Korean name is “Dallae,” smokes about a pack of cigarettes a day at the Central Zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea. Renovations for the new zoo began in 2014, as part of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s efforts to create more modern and impressive structures and leisure centers around the capital. The zoo also has performances featuring other animals trained to do tricks, including a monkey that slam dunks basketballs, dogs trained to appear as though they can do addition on subtraction on an abacus and doves that fly around and land on a woman skating on an indoor stage. The zoo is pulling in thousands of visitors a day with a slew of attractions ranging from such typical fare as elephants, giraffes, penguins and monkeys to a high-tech natural history museum with displays showing the origins of the solar system and the evolution of life on Earth.Īnother of the most popular attractions that might come as a surprise to foreign visitors is the dog pavilion, which has everything from German shepherds to Shih Tzus. The trainer also prompted her to touch her nose, bow thank you and do a simple dance. Though such a sight would draw outrage in many other locales, it seemed to delight visitors who roared with laughter last week as the chimpanzee, one of two at the zoo, sat puffing away as her trainer egged her on. Thrown a lighter by a zoo trainer, the chimpanzee lights her own cigarettes. They insist, however, she doesn’t inhale. PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - Pyongyang’s newly opened zoo has a new star: Azalea, the smoking chimpanzee.Īccording to officials at the newly renovated zoo, which has become a favorite leisure spot in the North Korean capital since it re-opened in July, the 19-year-old female chimpanzee, whose name in Korean is “Dallae,” smokes about a pack a day. Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.
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