Topic: 1930s Tarzan chimp dead, 80

[falsealarms]

Not quite Toto, but Cheetah the chimp from the 1930s TARZAN movies reportedly died of kidney failure on December 24th. He was 80 years old.

Yahoo story @ http://news.yahoo.com/cheetah-chimp-1930s-tarzan-flicks-dies-050034998.html

[Larrington]

Turns out that it's apparently a bogus story.
more details here:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_CHEETAH?SITE=CAGRA&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[jesster64]

I actually bought one of cheetas paintings a few years ago. It came with 2 "autographed" 8x10's and of course his fingerprint on the painting. I love it, my wife isn't that crazy about it.