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2. “Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking”

Remains of ill-prepared travellers found in Australian desert

SYDNEY (AFP) - Two men who tried to cross the harsh west Australian desert without proper equipment died just nine kilometres (5.6 miles) from a water source after their car broke down, it was reported.
The area is so remote, their bodies were not discovered for a fortnight.
The men, aged 21 and 40 and believed to be an uncle and nephew, had been ill-prepared for their journey and had not informed anyone of their travel plans, resulting in no immediate search and rescue effort, police said.
The bodies were found by a stationhand on April 8 on the Talawana Track, part of the Canning Stock Route, on the edge of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia state.
Their remains were only retrieved on Monday because of the time it took the stationhand to reach somewhere where he could report the find.
The men, who were found next to their broken down Land Rover, are thought to have died from from exposure after running out of water. Their dog was also found dead beside them.
They had been dead for up to two weeks before they were found, police spokesman Inspector George Putland said.
The men left the Pilbara town of Newman on March 28 but are understood to have taken little water with them and to have been travelling in a run-down vehicle which was not up to the harsh conditions of the remote area.
"All indications are that they were ill-prepared, ill-informed and didn't notify any agencies what their intended travel was," Senior Sergeant Geoff Stewart told the West Australian newspaper.
"No one knew they were missing -- simple as that -- and people really do underestimate the state that we live in, especially out there."
"They were only nine kilometres from a fully operational water bore which was on the same track they were on but further from where they were. They didn't know that because they hadn't been there."
Temperatures in the desert had reached more than 40 degrees Celcius (104 Fahrenheit) and there was little traffic because the area was coming out of the wet season, he added.
"The indications are that the vehicle they used was not equipped enough," he said.
"We have since found out their intended destination was further north but they would not have had enough fuel or water to traverse the type of desert areas out there."
The 2,000 kilometre Canning Stock Route, which crosses the Great Sandy Desert, the Little Sandy Desert and swathes of the Gibson Desert, is described as the longest and most remote stock route in the world.

Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.
Charlie, a grown male chimp and the Bloemfontein Zoo, has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them -- a habit he probably picked up by observing humans, zoo officials told the SAPA news agency on Thursday.
"Baby chimps pick up habits by mimicking adults and we think he started mimicking smokers at his enclosure which probably led to smokers throwing him cigarettes," spokesman Daryl Barnes told SAPA.
Barnes said Charlie was already showing the signs of a true nicotine addict.
"He even acts like a naughty schoolboy by hiding the cigarette when staff approach the area," Barnes said, adding that the zoo was determined to help him quit.
Barnes said the most important thing was that people stop providing Charlie with cigarettes or any other treats, noting the chimp already had three bad teeth because of all the cans of sweet soft drinks that people throw at him.
Charlie is not the only smoking chimpanzee. A zoo in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou reported last year that one of its chimps had taken up smoking and was desperately bumming cigarette butts off visitors.

Remains of ill-prepared travellers found in Australian desert
SYDNEY (AFP) - Two men who tried to cross the harsh west Australian desert without proper equipment died just nine kilometres (5.6 miles) from a water source . The bodies were found by a stationhand on April 8 on the Talawana Track, part of the 2,000 kilometre Canning Stock Route, which crosses the Great Sandy Desert, the Little Sandy Desert and swathes of the Gibson Desert. It is described as the longest and most remote stock route in the world.

. “Zoo Wants Chimpanzee to Stop Smoking”
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.
"Charlie, a grown male chimp , has been picking up cigarettes thrown to him by visitors and smoking them.He even acts like a naughty schoolboy by hiding the cigarette when staff approach the area." zoo officials said,"the most important thing is that people stop providing Charlie with cigarettes or any other treats."