Cheetah the Chimp
初期のターザン映画の名脇役だったチンパンジーのチーターが亡くなったそうです。映画の中ではおとぼけ者を演じ（？）、劇中のcomic reliefでした。その晩年は手のかからなかったけど、時に気にくわないことがあるとfecesを告げ付けたそうです。長生きだったのですね。なお、記事にあるflicksは「映画」の俗な言い方で、outreach directorは「渉外担当部長」でしょうか。（ゼミ生 temple gate）
Cheetah the Chimp From 1930s Tarzan Flicks Dies
PALM HARBOR, Fla. December 28, 2011 (AP)
A Florida animal sanctuary says Cheetah the chimpanzee from the Tarzan movies of the early 1930s has died at age 80. The Suncoast Primate Sanctuary in Palm Harbor announced that Cheetah died Dec. 24 of kidney failure.
Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune ( http://bit.ly/rRuTeJ ) that Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to see people laugh. She says he seemed to be tuned into human feelings. Cheetah was the comic relief in the Tarzan series starring American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller. Cobb says Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmuller's estate sometime around 1960. Cobb says Cheetah wasn't a troublemaker. Still, sanctuary volunteer Ron Priest says that when the chimp didn't like what was going on, he would throw feces.
