22 Old-School Cool Chimps We'd Love to Chill With
Carly Tennes
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07/18/2024
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Despite their historic penchant for hanging around, snacking on bananas, and grappling with the universe-altering consequences of touching a mysterious monolith, chimpanzees get up to way more than just typical "monkey business." Case in point? These cool, vintage orangutans who smoke, visit outer space and are a whole lot cooler than we'll ever be.
From Elvis' pet to Zip the monkey's entire existence, here are 22 old-school chimps we'd actually want in our blunt rotation.
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“Elvis Presley with his Chimpanzee ‘Scatter’ - 1960s. Scatter wore clothes, drank beer(!), and often hung out with Elvis and his friends.” -
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“A woman and her pet monkey in the crowd at Woodstock 1969.” -
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“Central Park Zoo, New York, 1967.” -
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“My Grandfather and his beer monkey, 1970s.” -
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“My grandad Doug and his pet monkey Charlie, who gatecrashed his foxhole mid-bombardment and stayed with him for the duration of the war. Burma (Myanmar), 1944. British Army.” -
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“A young girl from Brighton plays a game of chess with Fifi the chimpanzee at London Zoo, 1955.” -
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“Astronaut chimp, Ham, gets an apple after his first successful flight into space. January 31, 1961.” -
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“Man walking a monkey in Paris, 1976.” -
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“Mister Rogers and Koko in 1998.” -
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“Zippy the Chimp actor, relaxing on a couch, smoking a cigarette, in a sweater with ZIP written on it. (1955).” -
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“My Grandpa and his Pet Chimp, World War II 1943, North Africa.” -
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“Ham the chimp returns to Earth, 1961.” -
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“Dondi Penn with Chimp, 1959, by Bunny Yeager.” -
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“A young Steve Martin goofing around with a chimpanzee in the early 1980s.” -
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“Michael Jackson and his Chimpanzee in the 80’s.” -
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“A Chimp Named Ham Spaces Out, Jan. 31, 1961.” -
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“Ham the chimp.” -
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“Zippy the performing chimp watching TV in 1955.” -
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“Chimpanzees playing Donkey Kong, 1980s.” -
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“Dorothy Lamour, playing with 'Jiggs' the chimpanzee, while on location for "Her Jungle Love", directed by George Archainbaud.” -
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“Me in a members only jacket and a monkey in a space suit. Somewhere in Spain, probably Madrid. Early 1980s.” -
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“Negotiations between the zoo director and escaped chimpanzee. Belgrade, Yugoslavia 1988.”
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