<Tr> <Th> Species </Th> <Td> Chimpanzee </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Gender </Th> <Td> Male </Td> </Tr> <P> Cheeta (sometimes billed as Cheetah, Cheta and Chita) is a chimpanzee character who appeared in numerous Hollywood Tarzan movies of the 1930s--1960s as well as the 1966--1968 television series, as the ape sidekick of the title character, Tarzan . Cheeta has usually been characterized as male, but sometimes as female, and has been portrayed by chimpanzees of both sexes . </P> <P> While the character of Cheeta is inextricably associated in the public mind with Tarzan, no chimpanzees appear in the original Tarzan novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs that inspired the films . The closest analog to Cheeta in the Burroughs novels is Tarzan's monkey companion Nkima, who appears in several of the later books in the series . </P>

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