Chimp smokes cigarette in zoo

A shocking video has emerged of a chimpanzee smoking a cigarette at a zoo in China.

The footage, captured by a tourist at the Tienshan wild animal zoo in Xinjiang earlier this month, shows 'Jiaku' the 20-year-old chimp puffing on a cigarette in front of a crowd of onlookers.

According to news reports, Jiaku was moved to the zoo in 2002 from Beijing, and he was already a smoker. Since then, however he's also taken up drinking beer.