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Farewell Cheetah
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:00 am
by Fred588
According to a news report, Cheetah, Tarzan's chimp from the 1930s, passed away December 24 at the age of 80.
Re: Farewell Cheetah
Posted: Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:30 pm
by Mynock
When I first read the article I couldn't believe it was the same Chimp from the 30's/40's. RIP Cheetah. You were truly a Methuselah among apes.
Re: Farewell Cheetah
Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2012 9:05 pm
by Meeca
The booze, ciggies and wild nights finally got him.
...RIP, Cheet'.
Re: Farewell Cheetah
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 8:52 am
by Nessie
You were cute in the movies, Cheetah. May the jungle up there be eternally warm and sunny and the fruit on the trees juicy, ripe and numerous.
And because I didn't realize that you could live to be so old, Cheetah...for just a few seconds, there, I thought that this was about some hot human babe that I never heard of before.
Nessie
Re: Farewell Cheetah
Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2012 1:44 pm
by Lomax
It seems that numerous chimpanzees played Cheeta (or Cheetah, or Cheta, or Chita - no-one seems to have made a final decision) in Tarzan films. Sometimes several in the same film.
The original Cheeta seems to have been called Jiggs - but he died in 1938.
The chimp who died recently was called Cheeta-Mike (or Org) and may or may not have been formely owned by Johnny Weismuller.
Still, why let the facts spoil a good story?