Consul the Chimp

image

image

A once-famous resident of the Bellevue Zoological Gardens in England, known for his pipe-smoking habit.
     Posted By: Paul - Mon May 26, 2014
     Category: Animals | Anthropomorphism | Smoking and Tobacco | Europe | Nineteenth Century





Comments
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
Commenting is not available in this channel entry.