High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Bubbles (born 1983) is a common chimpanzee, known for being the one-time pet of American recording artist Michael Jackson. The entertainer adopted the young primate from a Texas research facility in the early 1980s. The singer`s attachment to the animal led to media mockery and, among other factors, to a public perception of Jackson as an eccentric. During the Bad World Tour, for example, Jackson took Bubbles along to Japan, where he surprised people by taking the animal to tea with a Japanese mayor.