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Cheeta, chimpanzee and Tarzan movie star, dies at 'roughly 80'
Entertainment Weekly ^ | Dec. 27, 2011 | Annie Barrett

Posted on 12/27/2011 11:28:26 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

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1 posted on 12/27/2011 11:28:34 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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But he wasn’t a zoo chimp. He worked for a living and learned things during his lifetime.

What this shows is having interesting things to do in one’s life can be a life extender, even if you’re considered just “an animal”.


2 posted on 12/27/2011 11:36:43 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: SatinDoll; All

What is the average age of death of convicts in cages?


3 posted on 12/27/2011 11:44:17 PM PST by gleeaikin
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That depends on whether they have to spend their time with an angry ape or not.


4 posted on 12/27/2011 11:48:40 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I thought he died years ago.


5 posted on 12/27/2011 11:55:23 PM PST by beaversmom
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6 posted on 12/28/2011 12:00:50 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
If Tarzan only knew what Cheeta was doing behind his back! Perhaps now the truth will finally come out.


7 posted on 12/28/2011 12:09:09 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Zoo and acting chimps sometimes were prone to emotional upset and acting-out because of the way that they were caught (IIRC they’re bred now, but that wasn’t the case in the past). Some of them caught in the wild were in their mother’s arms when their mother was shot. They are intelligent enough that an experience like this can seriously weird them out. If Cheeta managed to live without this kind of trouble he was fortunate.


8 posted on 12/28/2011 12:10:39 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Sometimes progressives find their scripture in the penumbra of sacred bathroom stall writings (Tzar))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Whoa... I grew up watching those Tarzan movies on Saturday afternoons in the ‘60s.
I cannot believe Cheeta has been alive all this time.
Just freaking wow.


9 posted on 12/28/2011 12:17:41 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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Astonishing and wonderful long life!


10 posted on 12/28/2011 12:29:41 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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11 posted on 12/28/2011 12:31:05 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, $pend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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& this was before, "LAS VEGAS"
"what happens in Vegas, Nevada stays in Vegas"

12 posted on 12/28/2011 12:37:23 AM PST by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, $pend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; null and void; Jeremiah Jr; Tax-chick
Cheeta was “roughly 80 years old, loved fingerpainting and football and was soothed by nondenominational Christian music.”

He lived a constructive peaceful life, with no chip on his shoulder apparently. And then there was... Travis.

14 posted on 12/28/2011 1:32:19 AM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY; ETL

I too had thought Cheeta had been long dead. 80 years old....amazing. RIP, Cheeta.

Also, thanks to ETL for posting the pics. Had a crush on Mareen O’Sullivan since I was a kid.....


15 posted on 12/28/2011 1:39:05 AM PST by myheroesareDeadandRegistered
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....even at 10, I always questioned why a chimp was named after a cat


16 posted on 12/28/2011 2:00:24 AM PST by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

I’ve always admired Cheetah because, unlike so many, he kept his politics to himself.


17 posted on 12/28/2011 2:04:06 AM PST by BfloGuy (The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

WOW! As a kid growing up in the 70s the Tarzan movies on Weekend TV were some of the only black and white films that could actually hold my attention. Being Black & White I had assumed that Cheeta was most likely already dead by the time I ever saw them! I never would have imagined his being alive still - he was only Middle-Aged at that time though! LOL

RIP Cheeta - you were probably my first exposure to a chimpanzee and you represented your species very well!


18 posted on 12/28/2011 2:17:35 AM PST by LibertyRocks
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To: ETL

LOL.

I forgot how ‘HOT’ Jane was. No wonder Tarzan was always in a hurry to get home.


19 posted on 12/28/2011 3:33:31 AM PST by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
An 80 year old chimp? Not likely. It seems the role of “Cheeta” was played by several different animals just as “Lassie” the dog was.
20 posted on 12/28/2011 3:42:57 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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