Cheeta turns 74

Post by **Dale** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:26 am

Cheeta, the chimp from the "Tarzan" movies is still alive. Just had his 74th birthday.

Un-GOW-wa, y'all.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:28 am

Paul · Post by **Paul** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:28 am

Wow!

I didn't know they lived that long. That's cool.

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:33 am

The chimp from The Today Show is still living too.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:53 am

Cheeta (b. April 9, 1932) then (he's the one on the right)--

Cheetah now --

J. Fred Muggs (b. March 14, 1952) --

Curious George (b. July 6, 1946) --

Redwolf · Post by **Redwolf** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:27 am

Yep...they live as long as humans do. The ones you see in movies and circuses are almost always babies who have been taken away from their parents, because adult chimps are considerably less cooperative (and much, much stronger than a human).

Redwolf

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:39 am

Chimps escape, attack visitors at animal sanctuary in Calif.

Ferocity of chimpanzee attack stuns medics, leaves questions

Chimpanzee attack probed

More than you ever wanted to now about monkey maulings

jsluder · Post by **jsluder** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:48 am

gonzo914 wrote:Chimps escape, attack visitors at animal sanctuary in Calif.

Ferocity of chimpanzee attack stuns medics, leaves questions

Chimpanzee attack probed

More than you ever wanted to now about monkey maulings

Yes, we should all breed gorillas instead. Much safer.

djm · Post by **djm** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:50 pm

Ron, however, did not survive.

djm

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:04 pm

I used to collect articles about monkey attacks (coffee break, boring job, needed laughs) from the San Francisco Chronicle. It seemed to be one of their main filler topics. It was quite astonishing to read about the odd conditions under which they can occur. I remember one titled "Monkey Bites Boss to Death". Another terrible attack occured on a bus. I'm sure the poor monkeys have their reasons but I am scared to death of them and would never mess with a monkey under any circumstances. People who have monkeys for pets can get horribly bit---there was a show a long time ago on "60 Minutes" about that. I think people relate to how monkeys look and forget that they are wild animals and that what means one thing to us might mean something very different to them.

Post by **Dale** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:28 pm

It would be really nice if people weren't allowed to have wild animals as pets. (Home gorilla breeding excluded, of course).

Here in Alabama, we've had these incidents recently:

A Bengal tiger has been spotted recently in the wild here in Alabama. The last sighting was March 30th or so.

A couple of years ago, a guy kept a spitting cobra as a pet in his trailer in Alabama. A rat chewed through the cardboard cover of the glass tank in which he kept the cobra. (What was the rat trying to do...Get IN to the cage with a cobra??). Anyway, that cobra went missing and was never located. Presumably, it didn't survive it's first winter.

In ANOTHER Alabama cobra story, a guy in Tuscaloosa is feeding HIS pet cobra and is bitten on the hand. At the hospital, the first MD tells the guy he can't do much for him...no cobra venom at the hospital. The second MD called the Birmingham Zoo, discovered they had one of that species of cobra at the zoo, and therefore had a dose of antivenom. They choppered the antivenom to Tuscaloosa from Birmingham and the guy was treated and lived.

Dogs. Cats. Hamsters. Ok.

Cobras, chimps, big cats. Not ok.

Lambchop · Post by **Lambchop** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:21 pm

Lambs are ok, too!

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:27 pm

gonzo914 wrote:Chimps escape, attack visitors at animal sanctuary in Calif.

Ferocity of chimpanzee attack stuns medics, leaves questions

Chimpanzee attack probed

More than you ever wanted to now about monkey maulings

Well... given the fact that they are quite inteligent and quite strong, and have definite personalities, I'd be utterly surprised if they were to take captivity by humans with no resistance. Frankly, I'm surprised there aren't more such cases.

Jerry Freeman · Post by **Jerry Freeman** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:06 pm

It's my understanding that another large primate species that's actually quite common in almost every part of the world can also be very dangerous.

Best wishes,
Jerry

Walden · Post by **Walden** » Tue Apr 11, 2006 4:36 pm

Jerry Freeman wrote:It's my understanding that another large primate species that's actually quite common in almost every part of the world can also be very dangerous.

Best wishes,
Jerry

The revenooer.