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Cheeta aka Jiggs (born April 9, 1932) is a male chimpanzee noted for appearing in numerous movies and television shows, most famously many Hollywood Tarzan films of the 1930s and 1940s, in which he portrayed a fictional chimp of the same name. Cheeta was bought from Henry Trefflich, a New York animal importer and dealer.

While inextricably associated in the public mind with Tarzan, Cheeta as a character was a product of the movies, never appearing in any of the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs. There are in fact no chimpanzees at all in the novels, the closest analog to Cheeta therein being Tarzan's monkey companion N'kima, who appears in several of the later books.

In retirement Cheeta lives at a primate sanctuary called Creative Habitats and Enrichment for Endangered and Threatened Apes (or CHEETA) in Palm Springs, California. He watches television and makes paintings which are sold to benefit primate-related charities. He often watches his old films with his grandson, Jeeter, and also likes to leaf through books (presumably with lots of pictures) and "play" the piano.

Cheeta became the longest lived known chimpanzee upon reaching the age 64 in 1996. He is cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's oldest primate (presumably meaning oldest non-human primate).

The October 4, 2006, edition of the Palm Springs newspaper, The Desert Sun, reported that Cheeta received his first-ever visit from famed primatologist Jane Goodall the previous day.

Cheeta is still alive at the age of 75 as of 2007. His 75th birthday was celebrated on April 9, 2007, at his "Casa de Cheeta" in Palm Springs in an event hosted by Dan Westfall and Diane Weissmuller, (Johnny Weissmuller, Jr.'s widow). Many Palm Spring celebrities and press attended.

Cheers and have a nice week ahead :)

Wow, Tarzan is dead, but the chimp is still alive? Noooo?!

and voted for George W Bush at the last Presidential election.

Get outta here! Really? Wow! Who would have figured..talk about old!

Interesting.. thats a good reserch u did.. thnx for letting us know.

thank you - good news is what i crave

is Johnny Wise Mullah still alive too

Oh realy how did you knew it. Maybe your jane lol.. well it great that they still alive and kick'n.

See what a Banana a day will do for ya....I wonder if he gets residuals.

wowzers :0

Wow!