Choppers, a 48-year-old chimp, was best known for her iconic role in the tea bag adverts that ran between the Sixties and the Eighties. But the much-loved animal had recently become ill, showing signs ...

Louis the chimpanzee, who won the nation's hearts as the iconic star of PG Tips TV ads, has died aged 37. The famous primate died at Twycross Zoo in Warwickshire on Monday after battling a short ...

Chimpanzees helped to make PG Tips tea famous with their iconic TV ads in the 1970s. But what happened to these animals afterwards? Our new study, using techniques previously used only on human ...

Nine years on from the passing of Choppers, a "beloved" chimpanzee famous for starring in PG Tips tea adverts, scientists have unveiled distressing insights into her life. Portraying the character ...

Nine years on from the passing of a "beloved" chimpanzee, Choppers, famed for starring in PG Tips tea adverts, scientists have uncovered disturbing truths about her past. Astonishingly, the Western ...

Scientists have used a pioneering technique to unlock hidden details about a famous chimpanzee’s life for the first time. Using osteobiography, experts have analysed the bones and tissue of Choppers, ...

Choppers, the last of the original PG Tips chimpanzees died at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire at the age of 48. First broadcast on TV in 1971, Choppers wore a grey wig to play the old 'lady' Ada in ...