Cheetah the Chimp Dies

The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary Foundation in Palm Harbor, Fla., announced that Cheetah the Chimp — "star of the Tarzan films" — had died of kidney failure. Cheetah the Chimp was reportedly in the neighborhood of 80 years old — a jaw-dropping age for a creature that normally lives to be about 40 in the wild and 60 in captivity.

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