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Topic: Was Reported Death of Chimp Who Played Tarzan's Fr

Posted By: tjadams
Subject: Was Reported Death of Chimp Who Played Tarzan's Fr
Date Posted: 29-Dec-2011 at 18:38

Was Reported Death of Chimp Who Played Tarzan's Friend Cheetah a Hoax?

Published December 29, 2011| Associated Press

A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at 80. But other accounts call that claim into question.

Debbie Cobb, outreach director at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary along Florida's Gulf Coast, said Wednesday that her grandparents acquired Cheetah around 1960 from "Tarzan" star Johnny Weissmuller and that the chimp appeared in Tarzan films between 1932 and 1934. During that period, Weissmuller made "Tarzan the Ape Man" and "Tarzan and His Mate."

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/12/29/was-reported-death-chimp-who-played-tarzans-friend-cheetah-hoax/?test=faces - http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/12/29/was-reported-death-chimp-who-played-tarzans-friend-cheetah-hoax/?test=faces

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Posted By: medenaywe
Date Posted: 30-Dec-2011 at 00:53

R.I.P. Cheetah!