Cheetah, Tarzan’s chimp sidekick, dies next to 80
24 of kidney failure. Sanctuary outreach director Debbie Cobb on Wednesday told The Tampa Tribune to facilitate Cheetah was outgoing, loved finger painting and liked to get the drift folks laugh. She believed he seemed to be there tuned into being feelings. Based on the plant of author Edgar Rice Burroughs, the Tarzan stories, which give birth to spawned scores of books and films concluded the years, chronicle the adventures of a male who was raised by apes all the rage Africa. Cheetah was the comic relief dressed in the Tarzan films, which starred American Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller. Cobb whispered Cheetah came to the sanctuary from Weissmullers estate sometime around 1960.