By: laviticus - 30th December 2011 at 23:33
Apparently a dead eye for throwing poo a folk he disliked,some epitaph i would really like.
By: bazv - 30th December 2011 at 22:32
ooh ooh ooh 🙂
By: Arabella-Cox - 30th December 2011 at 21:51
RIP Cheetah, green trees and yellow bananas.
By: Merlin3945 - 30th December 2011 at 12:36
I only picked up the story on here and in news elsewhere but here is a wiki article about the chimp we are talking about.
Cheeta, a male chimpanzee born about 1960, formerly owned by Tony Gentry and now residing at the C.H.E.E.T.A. Primate Sanctuary (Creative Habitats and Enrichment for Endangered and Threatened Apes) in Palm Springs, California. Claimed by Gentry to have been born in 1932 or later in the 1930s and to have portrayed Cheeta in most of the Johnny Weismuller and Lex Barker Tarzan films, and for that reason long celebrated as the longest-lived chimpanzee. Both claims were debunked by journalist R. D. Rosen in 2008 in an article that settled the animal’s true age and established that he had not appeared in any movies, let alone in the role of Cheeta.
If its on wiki it must be true lol.
Well at least there is one thing we do know. The real Cheetah will be sitting up there on his great big banana tree in the sky.
RIP Cheetah
By: Dr Strangelove - 30th December 2011 at 12:33
My thoughts entirely.
By: Deano - 30th December 2011 at 12:25
Probably because chimps only live on average between 30-40 years old, and “Cheetah” most likely turned his toes up around the time that Apollo 14 landed on the moon 😉
By: Merlin3945 - 30th December 2011 at 01:13
I cant believe no one has commented on the passing of the legend that was Cheetah.
Gone to the big banana tree in the sky.
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