Consul the Chimp

A once-famous resident of the Bellevue Zoological Gardens in England, known for his pipe-smoking habit.

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Posted By: Paul - Mon May 26, 2014
Category: Animals | Anthropomorphism | Smoking and Tobacco | Europe | Nineteenth Century

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According to a study done in GB, at least 95% of chips is human.

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/26/14 at 09:44 AM

And vice versa, Expat...

Posted by s on 05/26/14 at 10:36 AM

As in "fish & chips?"

Posted by F.U.D. on 05/26/14 at 10:40 AM

As in Chimps Ahoy!

Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 05/26/14 at 10:53 AM

Chimps Ahoy! A Chimp in every bite! :lol: :coolsmile:

Posted by Tyrusguy on 05/26/14 at 01:24 PM

Better Consul the Chimp, than Chimp, the Consul.

Posted by Will S. on 05/26/14 at 01:27 PM

One of the characters in P. G. Wodehouse's tales from those years is a clubman called Consul, the Almost Human. A fossil primate discovered about a hundred years ago was thought to be ancestral to chimpanzees, and therefore was named Proconsul.

Posted by John Ayer on 05/29/14 at 08:56 AM

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