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Zookeepers in Qinling Safari Park in northern China have stopped giving cigarettes to a chimpanzee and are using dumplings and music to distract her from a 16-year nicotine habit, state media said Wednesday. Ai Ai, a 26-year-old chimp, began scavenging cigarette butts left by visitors after her first mate, Jian Jian, died. Zookeepers eventually began giving Ai Ai cigarettes of her own and lighting them.
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