I hope I do not have to apologize for the simian centric posts as of late but we have some special monkey news for you. Everybody wish Cheeta, the worlds most famous living monkey a wonderful 75th birthday.
According to the internets, Cheeta's career began in 1932 with Tarzan the Ape Man and went on to make a total of 12 Hollywood pictures. Most of Cheeta's pictures were Tarzan films, but he did foray into some animal ensemble work with 1942's Dr Doolittle.
According to Hollywood legend, Cheeta was apparently growing more and more despondent over the publics view of him as Tarzan's sidekick and not the other way around.
After his smashing performance in Dr Doolittle, Cheeta retired to his Palm Springs animal sanctuary were he unwinds embalming sharks in large boxes of glass. No not really, He makes and sells abstract paintings.
I had no idea how long monkeys could live so I checked it out and it appears that monkeys that live in the wild usually live to between 30 and 40, whereas monkeys in captivity live to be about 60.
Unless that monkey picks up bad habits like smoking or wields a firearm in gangsta fashion.
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My fellow simian: check out the amazing story of Cheeta's brethren: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_%28chimpanzee%29
Also, so what happens when a monkey-man is left in the wild: http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/16/india.monkeyman/
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