Cheetah the chimp dies at 80

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Cheetah, Tarzan's chimp sidekick, dies at 80

Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s, has died at age 80 a Florida animal sanctuary said.

The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure.

Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune that Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to see people laugh. She said he seemed to be tuned into human feelings.
RIP, Cheetah. You had a long, and hopefully happy, life.
 
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A Farewell to Cheetah, the Original or Otherwise

In the end, maybe it didn’t matter whether Cheetah really was the same grinning, goofy sidekick who swung through the cinematic jungle with the Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller in the “Tarzan” movies of 1930s. To the 60 or so people who gathered on Saturday in front of the chimpanzee’s cage here at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary to memorialize him, Cheetah was a friend and a symbol that the power of love can do miraculous things.
 
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