Chimpanzee tea party at Edinburgh Zoo

This historical footage from the 1960s show three young chimpanzees at the zoo chimps tea party within a large cage enclosure, surrounded by an audience of visitors as the keeper feeds the chimps salad and apples. Cindy was the star of the tea parties and - before she passed away in December 2018 at 53 years of age - the oldest chimpanzee at the Zoo’s Budongo enclosure that opened in 2008. In other words, Cindy was the last surviving tea party chimp. Keeper, Sophie Pearson explains why Cindy is special and why only young chimps were ever used in tea parties because the older chimps are too volatile and hard to handle. This is a clip from the 2013 BBC documentary ‘Animal Magic – 100 Years of Edinburg Zoo’, narrated by John Hannah (Scottisch actor).