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...years of life is more then many humans can dream to live and play in movies,I hope they will be more protected in the future from their only enemy,the humans.
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LOS ANGELES — Cheetah was a scene-stealing sidekick — this much is true.
But news that he died in a Florida sanctuary Christmas Eve at the ripe old age of 80, after a career spent starring in "Tarzan" movies, is raising plenty of questions that would have Cheetah scratching his head and looking quizzically into the camera.
Author R.D. Rosen wrote in a 2008 Washington Post article that pretty much everything we think we know about Cheetah is a big, fat, furry lie. Such as the oft-published tale about the original Cheetah: Legend has it he was born in Liberia and smuggled into the United States beneath an animal trainer's overcoat. But the critter — clad only in a diaper — made a run for it during the flight. Before the plane landed, he had entertained the masses and was hand-fed a bottle and rocked by delighted flight attendants.
The story is priceless, only it's not true, said Rosen, who discovered with a little research that trans-Atlantic commercial airline service didn't begin until 1939.