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I never knew that chimps lived that long.

Heart Of Stone wrote on Dec 28^th, 2011 at 3:39pm:

I never knew that chimps lived that long.

Very unusual.
They usually go 45 years max in captivity, less in the wild.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF8I_W2q5dg&feature=player_embedded

80? Man that's one tough monkey! :smilestu

Cheetah bit me whenever he could. The apes (in the Tarzan movies) were all homosexuals, eager to wrap their
paws around Johnny Weismuller's thighs. They were jealous of me, and I loathed them.

-Maureen O'Sullivan

Hit close to home FPM?

mojoman wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 12:10pm:

Hit close to home FPM?

:aimama

mojoman wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 12:10pm:

Hit close to home FPM?

Nope,our monkey is alive and well and posting again. :warhorse

YA THINK BABA BOOEY WILL MAKE IT THAT LONG?

Heart Of Stone wrote on Dec 28^th, 2011 at 3:39pm:

I never knew that chimps lived that long.

Me either....gonna start eating bannanas........Wonder what he did after the Tarzan movies?.....kinda like Joey..peaked early and then it was all downhill........

He lived to a grand old age....wow. They showed all the Tarzan movies this fall on Turner Classic Movies, so I saw a lot of Cheetah...

sweetcharmedlife wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 3:17pm:

mojoman wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 12:10pm:

Hit close to home FPM?

Nope,our monkey is alive and well and posting again. :warhorse

Scl, Joey, FPM?

http://youtu.be/Ay6N33y_UG4

Cheetah was the best those movies had to offer, and I watched the all as a kid. He far outshone that fucking German he was forced to act with, indentured primate that he was.

I was really sad to read he never sired any offspring. You'd think the chick chimps would have been all over him and his fucking banana back-flips, that winning smile, and his deep sense of foreboding. 80 years old, that chimp. Lord be. My god. My goodness.

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:08pm:

He far outshone that fucking German he was forced to act with

Austro-Hungarian.
Get your shit straight. :whydontcha

Edith Grove wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:25pm:

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2011 at 9:08pm:

He far outshone that fucking German he was forced to act with

Austro-Hungarian.
Get your shit straight. :whydontcha

Who did I insult? Weismuffer, you, Austrians, or Germans?

Either way, Cheetah deserved better. I reckon.

Cool Monkey.............. Cheetah,,,,,,RIP!

Kilroy wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 12:33am:

Cool Monkey.............. Cheetah,,,,,,RIP!

He was not a monkey...He was a Chimpanzee

It was a similar comment like that which caused the professional rift between him and Roddy McDowell back in 68...

Remember that time he broke into the British expeditionary force's liquor supply? Then he was riding that elephant all yelling up "OOK OOK, ACK ACK ACk." Can't remember what happened after that. Maybe he stormed through a village of Pygmies on th elephant or something.

Cheetah. Chee-TAH. The Chee-man. Chee Chee.

Now comes word that maybe this was all a horrible hoax, perpetrated by a misguided zookeepper looking to make a fast buck off a great primate!
From ABS News:

Last week the world, nay the universe, mourned the loss of Cheetah, the perpetually grinning chimp sidekick starring in the Tarzan films of 1930s.

But then, just as quickly, ape experts went from rending their clothes to scratching their heads.

First, Debbie Cobb, the outreach director of the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor, Fla., who claimed to own the real Cheetah, said the chimp was 80 years old when he died of kidney failure at the sanctuary on Christmas Eve.

Not possible, cried ape experts.

“Captive chimpanzees typically live in their 30s, 40s or, sometimes, even their 50s and 60s,” Dr. Steve Ross, assistant director for the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, Ill., told ABC News.

R.D. Rosen, a writer who debunked the claim of another Cheetah-claiming chimp in a 2008 Washington Post article, told the Associated Press in an email Wednesday that the chimp the Suncoast Sanctuary claims was Cheetah looks like a “business-boosting impostor.”

Indeed, next to the announcement of Cheetah’s death on the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary website is a donation tab accepting most credit cards.

“I’m afraid any chimp who actually shared a sound stage with Weissmuller and O’Sullivan is long gone,” Rosen wrote to the AP.

But Cobb is sticking by her story, insisting hers was the original Cheetah that starred alongside American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller – he of the warbling primal call and skimpy loin cloth in the series of films about a man raised by apes in Africa.

Cobb claims her grandparents acquired Cheetah around 1960 from Weissmuller, who lived in nearby Ocala, and that the chimp was one of multiple cheetahs that appeared in Tarzan films between 1932 and 1934.

Cobb, who in interviews after his death described Cheetah as outgoing and tuned into human feelings, said on Wednesday that paperwork that could prove the chimp’s authenticity, however, does not exist.

“Unfortunately, there was a fire in ’95 in which a lot of that documentation burned up,” Cobb told the Associated Press. “I’m 51 and I’ve known him for 51 years. My first remembrance of him coming here was when I was actually 5, and I’ve known him since then, and he was a full-grown chimp then.”

Cobb recalled that the Cheetah she knew loved fingerpainting and football and was soothed by nondenominational Christian music.

“He was very outgoing, very personable, he loved women,” she said.

But the real Cheetah was not-so-affectionately known as “that bastard” by Tarzan’s perennial babe, Jane.

Back in the 1930s, the role belonged to Maureen O’Sullivan, the mother of actress Mia Farrow, who recalled her mom’s feelings towards the chimp in a post on Twitter.

“My mom, Tarzan’s Jane, referred to Cheetah-the-chimp as ‘that bastard’ – saying he bit her at every opportunity,” she wrote.

The Suncoast Sanctuary’s website says a public remembrance ceremony for the chimp will be held this Saturday, Dec. 31.

The website also includes a space for visitors to write their memories of Cheetah.

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Remember folks, when you get yourself a famous chimp, be sure to keep the Certificate of Authenticity in a safe place and this kind of unwanted publicity can be avoided.

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 10:40am:

Remember that time he broke into the British expeditionary force's liquor supply?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aHtOgfsEd8

Paranoid Android wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 8:47am:

Kilroy wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 12:33am:

Cool Monkey.............. Cheetah,,,,,,RIP!

He was not a monkey...He was a Chimpanzee

It was a similar comment like that which caused the professional rift between him and Roddy McDowell back in 68...

Not a Monkey huh? Okay you are correct sir............ how apish of me! ;)
How about cool Pan troglodytes................ RIP Cheetah...........

I think we can all agree that from Chimpan-A to Chimpan-Zee, Cheetah was the best.

This is a personal matter to me, because as a boy I used to daydream about sucker punching ole Holla Holla face in the neck during one of his yells, and then getting Jane to myself. My goodness, she was gorgeous out there, beyond civilization, flaunting the jungle, heaven, brazen, soft and becoming.

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 6:19pm:

lance link anyone?

http://youtu.be/WV9Y0Qy0U20

"Ungawa! Ungawa!"

Yeah keep saying it, like anyone understands. Speak fucking English, you jungle ass redneck. How hard is it? You sound like the RAINMAN of the jungle, you goofball, panty-wearing, mooga mooga, high strung, 50 years-behind-the-times bitch! Cheetah owns yo' ass!

http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS7NyXjqXE7FWym5To1uDhUzqdnV0lufLGmarvuMv58YDd-PJ36JG2dGMbB

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 6:19pm:

My goodness, she was gorgeous out there, beyond civilization, flaunting the jungle, heaven, brazen, soft and becoming.

http://youtu.be/IPrWCCPADNs

I feel ya, my C10 bro.

Gorgeousness and gorgeouisity.
.

FPM wrote on Dec 31^st, 2011 at 12:38am:

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 6:19pm:

My goodness, she was gorgeous out there, beyond civilization, flaunting the jungle, heaven, brazen, soft and becoming.

http://youtu.be/IPrWCCPADNs

I feel ya, my C10 bro.

Gorgeousness and gorgeouisity.
.

I feel you too. Images of her legs, and all the love-blogs regarding the Chee-man's untimely death is all that keeps me going at this point. Well, booze, too. And some white stuff. A few other things. But that's not the goddam point! The chimp is dead. Dead! Let's show some fucking respect! I mean, fucking Christ, we show less goddam tact than the Catholic Church on these matters.

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 31^st, 2011 at 1:56am:

FPM wrote on Dec 31^st, 2011 at 12:38am:

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 6:19pm:

My goodness, she was gorgeous out there, beyond civilization, flaunting the jungle, heaven, brazen, soft and becoming.

http://youtu.be/IPrWCCPADNs

I feel ya, my C10 bro.

Gorgeousness and gorgeouisity.
.

moonie?

http://youtu.be/UG-Mg9_DIRU

sirmoonie wrote on Dec 30^th, 2011 at 7:14pm:

Moonie? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/31/BASV1MJ3BH.DTL&tsp=1

Cheetah mattered. The best animal actor in history. Even better than the animated animals.

Better actor than a lot of humans, including ones he worked with. Weissmuffin. See also Harrison Ford, Keanu Reeves, Richard Dreyfuss, Ben Affleck. Oook oook ackk ackk!

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