“It is 76 years since Cheeta the chimp was plucked from the African jungle to become a Hollywood star in the Tarzan movies. Yet incredibly, he is still going strong.
“The oldest known living chimpanzee enjoys a leisurely retirement in California, where he enjoys painting, piano and strolling in the sunshine…
Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=548332&in_page_id=1773
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD is a critical thinker with expertise in the scientific method.
I visited Silver Springs, Florida in 2006, where the Tarzan movies were made from 1932 to 1942:
http://www.silversprings.com/heritage.html
We were told that Cheeta spends his retirement as an artist making ‘ape-stract’ paintings.’
Amazing.It puts paid to the religious zealots of man being the chosen being in god’s universe.In this fluid and changing world,the reality is that man himself creates a civilised world,and the law of the jungle and insanity is but a hare’s breath from each of us.
How many of us does is it take to hold up the fragile umbella called civilisation?There are a lot of good people on this planet and the egocentric media detracts from what is really important.
Here here Arjay. Why isn’t my birthday celebrated?
Well, Arjay, I guess that means we can now consider blaming chimps for global warming, too.
Especially this chimp–who “enjoys painting, piano and strolling in the sunshine.” Things like that is what got humans involved in global warming.
This dastardly creature was even “fond of smoking and drinking”, but due to the efforts of political correctionists, “both have been forbidden since he arrived more than a decade ago at the Cheeta Primate Foundation.”
You see the danger these creatures can pose, given the opportunity. Maybe Cheeta should be euthanized, a fate activists recommended for Knut, an orphan baby polar bear.
See, “Baby Polar Bear Cub, ‘Cute Knut,’ Wanted Dead by Activists”, Mother Jones, Mar. 30, 2008,
http://www.motherjones.com/blue_marble_blog/archives/2007/03/3909_kill_cute_cub_k.html
Your a denialist. Don’t you want Knut dead too Schiller? And especially his pesky wild relos.
Travis, yes, I have joined you.
All humans must die in order to save the planet. And Knut, of course.
And Cheeta’s carbon footprint, which fuels the chimp’s generous retirement–funded by a foundation–is likely as large as Al Gore’s.
Not.