Choppers - the last of the PG Tips chimps - has sadly died at the age of 48. The chimpanzee, based at Twycross Zoo in Warwickshire, was suffering from heart and liver failure and had to be put to ...

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 ...

17:45, Thu, Apr 21, 2016 Updated: 18:10, Thu, Apr 21, 2016 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 ...

Choppers was said to be the last surviving chimpanzee from the PG Tips adverts Details of the life of a "beloved" chimpanzee who starred in a series of adverts for PG Tips tea has been revealed in a ...

The most famous chimpanzees in the UK are to be replaced by a younger model. The chimps have been used in commercials to advertise PG Tips tea since Christmas 1956, making this the longest-running ...

Not long after Anglo-Dutch group Unilever announced that its PG Tips chimps are retiring from UK television, tea giant Tetley has revealed the imminent screening of a commercial without the Tetley Tea ...