Jimmy the painting chimp draws hordes to Rio zoo

My news is about a chimpanzee. His name is Jimmy and he is 26 years old. This chimpazee painted a cardboard ar the Niteroi zoo in Rio de Janeiro on Monday (september 20th). Everyone was surprised when they saw this ape in action. Jimmy is very popular. Before, he was a circus chimpanzee but now he is retired. Seba, his trainer, discovered 3 weeks ago that Jimmy didn't like the toys that other chimps enjoyed. It's for this reason that Seba introduced him to the painting. Since this time, at least 30 minutes a day, Jimmy puts his brush into plastic paint bottles and he creates his art on a cardboard. Sometimes, when they are a lot of people in front of his cage, he doesn't want to paint. He is an artist. It's him who decides when he wants to paint. An exhibition for Jimmy the chimpanzee is already in the works. Since 3 weeks, Jimmy has been producing a painting each day!