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Another chimpanzee named Cheeta lives on a primate sanctuary in Southern California named C. The sanctuary's creator, Dan Westfall, said on its web site that he was saddened to hear of Cheetah's passing in Florida. He said he and others at the sanctuary "send our deepest sympathies to our colleagues at Suncoast. Westfall writes on the site that he was told Cheeta was one of the original chimps in the Tarzan movies during the s and s.
However, when he began working with a writer on Cheeta's biography, research revealed "that our Cheeta is unlikely to be as old as we'd thought, although he is clearly old," Westfall wrote. People from several countries offered condolences for Cheetah on the Florida sanctuary's site in several different languages. A few credited him with helping them develop a love for animals. Thanks Cheetah for all the good times you had and made us all laugh. The Guardian critic Peter Bradshaw described it as "one of the smartest comic novels of recent years — a devastatingly clever, brilliantly written spoof autobiography".
Cheeta's slippery reputation even seems to have passed by osmosis on to Lever, who was at one point was heavily rumoured to be a front for a better known author such as Martin Amis.
On hearing of Cheetah's death he said: "Nobody seems to know very much or even anything at all about the chimps who played Cheetah. I rather think he'll be dying a lot over the next few years. Sadly for fans of the Weissmuller-era Tarzan, the animal closest to being the "real" Cheetah was probably a chimpanzee named Jiggs , who died from pneumonia in and was buried in the Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park.
This article is more than 9 years old. Primate purported to be Johnny Weissmuller's co-star in classics such as Tarzan the Ape Man dies at Florida animal sanctuary. In full swing … the original Cheetah alongside Tarzan cast members including Johnny Weissmuller second right. Topics Action and adventure films Animals news.
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