Today Cheeta, the world's oldest chimpanzee, celebrates his 76th birthday. He is most famous for his role in a number of Tarzan films, and his last big screen appearance was as "Chee Chee" in 1967's Dr. Doolittle. Presently Cheeta resides at the CHEETA Primate Sanctuary in California, and a ghostwritten memoir of his life called Me Cheeta is due to be published this fall.
[Hat-tip to John Lynch]
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Cheeta, yoiu may not realize this, but it was YOU who got me interested in Africa and Anthropolology! Happy 76th birhday! You don't look a day over 50 or so.
And no, I don't say that to all the chimps, just some of them.
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