"LOS ANGELES — Cheetah was a scene-stealing sidekick — this much is true.
But news that he died in a Florida sanctuary Christmas Eve at the ripe old age of 80, after a career spent starring in "Tarzan" movies, is raising plenty of questions that would have Cheetah scratching his head and looking quizzically into the camera.
The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary Foundation in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah The Chimp — "star of the Tarzan films" — had died of kidney failure. His reported age was jaw-dropping for a creature that normally lives to be about 40 in the wild, and 60 in captivity."
But news that he died in a Florida sanctuary Christmas Eve at the ripe old age of 80, after a career spent starring in "Tarzan" movies, is raising plenty of questions that would have Cheetah scratching his head and looking quizzically into the camera.
The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary Foundation in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah The Chimp — "star of the Tarzan films" — had died of kidney failure. His reported age was jaw-dropping for a creature that normally lives to be about 40 in the wild, and 60 in captivity."
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