Cheetah, Chimp From Tarzan Films, Dies: “
Condolences poured in to a Florida primate sanctuary Wednesday after the death of Cheetah, a chimpanzee who starred in the Tarzan movies during the 1930s.
‘I grew up watching Tarzan and Cheetah from a boy,’ a man identifying himself as Thomas from England wrote on the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary’s website. ‘God bless you Cheetah. Now you and Tarzan are together again.’
The chimpanzee died Saturday after suffering kidney failure the week before, the sanctuary foundation said on the site. He was roughly 80 years old, Debbie Cobb, the sanctuary’s outreach director, told CNN affiliate WFLA.
Cobb recalled Cheetah as an outgoing chimp who loved finger painting and watching football and who was soothed by Christian music, the station said.
Cheetah appeared in the Tarzan moves from 1932 through 1934, Cobb told WFLA. According to the website Tarzanmovieguide.com, ‘Tarzan the Ape Man’ was released in 1932 and ‘Tarzan and his Mate’ in 1934.
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(Via Monkeys In The News.)
