Cheeta

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Cheeta

Cheeta (sometimes also Cheetah or Cheta ) is the name of a role of a chimpanzee in several Tarzan films . Cheeta appeared alongside actors such as Johnny Weissmüller and Lex Barker from the 1930s on.

presentation

The role was played by several chimpanzees. Depending on the task to be filmed in the film, another monkey who had the appropriate skill was used.

The Guinness Book of Records listed "Cheeta" since 2003 as the oldest chimpanzee in the world. The animal this entry referred to had lived at the Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor , Florida , since 1960 . In 2008 the monkey's 76th birthday was celebrated, and on December 24, 2011, he died of kidney failure at the age of supposedly 80 years. According to RD Rosen in the Washington Post, the information relating to this chimpanzee is baseless and was presented by him as a hoax in 2008 . Chimpanzees would normally not be over forty years of age. The monkey "Cheeta", whose birthday was celebrated on April 12th and allegedly born in 1932, would have been born in the 1960s and would not have appeared in any film.

One of the monkeys who played Cheeta went by the name of Jiggs . Jiggs starred in the first and second Tarzan films - Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) and Tarzan's Retaliation (1934) - alongside Weissmüller. This chimpanzee was born around 1929 and died of pneumonia in 1938 .

In Germany, an alleged appearance by Cheeta in the current sports studio in 1971 became known, where Johnny Weissmüller was a guest together with his German wife Maria. The monkey tore the wig from her head during the broadcast of Weissmüller's wife. It later turned out that the chimpanzee was not one of the alleged Cheetas from the movies, but a monkey from the zoo.

Filmography

Web links

literature

  • James Lever: Me Cheeta. The Autobiography . Fourth Estate Publ., London 2008, ISBN 0-007-27863-2 .
    • German: Me, Cheeta. The autobiography . Edition Tiamat, Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-89320-151-8 . (translated by Norbert Hofmann)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c R. D. Rosen: Lie of the Jungle. In: Washington Post, December 7, 2008
  2. ↑ fallence Chita, la inolvidable compañera de Tarzán - Vieja, peluda y querida (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy of December 28, 2011, accessed on December 28, 2011
  3. ↑ a b Give cake to the monkey. In: Spiegel Online from April 11, 2008 (report on the 76th birthday on April 12, 2008)
  4. ↑ Chimpanzee Cheetah died of kidney failure at the age of 80
  5. ↑ www.welt.de from December 28, 2011: Hollywood star: Legendary Tarzan monkey Cheetah dies at the age of 80 , accessed on December 29, 2011
  6. ↑ Kim Severson: A Farewell to Cheetah, the Original or Otherwise . New York Times, Jan. 1, 2012
  7. ↑ CE Finch: Evolution of the human lifespan and diseases of aging: Roles of infection, inflammation, and nutrition. In: PNAS 2009 [Internet publication before printing] doi : 10.1073 / pnas.0909606106
  8. ↑ Cheetah is celebrating its 75th birthday. In: Focus from April 11, 2007
  9. ↑ Famous Chimpanzee, Jiggs, Dies on Coast. In: The Atlanta Constitution, March 2, 1938, p. 2
  10. ↑ Owner Sues for 'Jigg's' Death. In: The New York Times, April 15, 1938, p. 22