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Cheetah, chimp from Tarzan films, dies 
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http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/28/showb ... index.html

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Condolences poured in to a Florida primate sanctuary Wednesday after it announced the death of Cheetah, a chimpanzee that the sanctuary said starred in the Tarzan movies during the 1930s.

"I grew up watching Tarzan and Cheetah from a boy," a man identifying himself as Thomas from England wrote on the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary's website. "God bless you Cheetah. Now you and Tarzan are together again."


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His age was advanced for a chimpanzee, Cobb told WFLA. In the wild, the average chimp survives 25 to 35 years, she said, and they can live 35 to 45 years in zoos.

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Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:14 pm
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err, if he just died, wouldn't that put him into his 80s at a minimum? That's pretty freaking old, if it's double the usual lifespan.

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Yeah he was 80. Freaking chimp will probably have outlived me age-wise, given my current lifestyle. :roll: Not a happy thought haha!

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Hey, we own a pet tortoise that'll live to be somewhere between 30 and 130 years old (depending on who you ask). So the damned thing could outlive not just me, but my (theoretical) children, and their children. Then again, Charles Darwin's pet tortoise died in 2006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_%28tortoise%29

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