A HARD-LIVING chimpanzee has been sent to rehab by worried zookeepers in a bid to cure him of his addictions to cigarettes and booze.

Ex-circus performer Zhora picked up his vices after moving to a zoo in the southern Russian city of Rostov.

"The beer and cigarettes were ruining him. He would pester passers-by for booze," the local Komsomolskaya Pravda paper said.

The chimp has been moved to the city of Kazan for rehabilitation treatment.


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