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Jump to full article: People's Daily (cn), 2008-07-02
Intro: Ai Ai was imported from Japan with a male gorilla in 1982. The male gorilla died in 1989.
Ai Ai then became restless and irritable, refusing food, instead chewing on cigarette butts left on the ground by zoo visitors.
"We did not pay attention to her at first," said zookeeper Wang Aiying.
"But gradually the gorilla got a craving for tobacco and needed at least 20 cigarettes a day."
"If we refused to give her cigarettes, she would knock the door very hard, yelling and screaming, and sometimes she would go on a hunger strike," the zookeeper said.
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