Cheeta
Cheeta (sometimes Cheetah ) is the name of a role of a chimpanzee in twelve Tarzan films. Cheeta came here next to actors like Johnny Weissmuller and Lex Barker during the 1930s and 1940s.
Representation
The role was played by several chimpanzees. Depending on the task to be rotated in the film was another monkey who had the appropriate skill set.
The Guinness Book of Records listed " Cheeta " since 2003 as the oldest chimpanzee in the world. The beast that covered this listing lived since 1960 in the shelter Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor in the U.S. state of Florida. 2008, the 76th birthday of the monkey was celebrated on December 24, 2011, he died at the age of supposedly 80 years of kidney failure. The information regarding these chimpanzees are the opinion of RD Rose in the Washington Post unfounded and were presented by him in 2008 as a hoax. Chimpanzees would normally not be more than forty years. The monkey " Cheeta ", whose birthday was celebrated on April 12 and was supposedly born in 1932 would, then came in the 1960s with the world and would have acted in any film.
One of the monkeys, who played the role of Cheeta, answered to the name Jiggs. Jiggs played in the first and second movie Tarzan - Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) and Tarzan and His Mate (1934 ) - on the side of Weissmuller. This chimp was born in 1929 and died in 1938 of pneumonia.
In Germany an alleged appearance of Cheeta in the current sports club in 1971 was known where Johnny Weissmuller was together with his German wife Maria as a guest. The monkey tore during the mission White miller woman's wig from her head. Later it turned out that it was not in the chimpanzee to one of the alleged Cheetas from the movies, but a monkey from the zoo.