Happy birthday Cheeta!

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Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller, left), Cheeta (center), and Jane (Maureen O'Sullivan, right)


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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