This image is an outtake from the May 23,1955 feature “CHIMP OFF THE extinct BLOCK—domestic-reared Zippy’s success as an entertainer occasions a pace to better quarters.” According to LIFE, “Potential champ of animal-world present business is a chimp named Zippy. An undersized anthropoid, and Zippy at the age of 6 weighs only 38 pounds,but he has an oversized income…he earned $55000 last year…his success as an entertainer is largely due to the loving attention of his owners, Lee and Bonnie Ecuyer, or who reared Zippy as they might their own child from the age of two months.” Zippy was a celebrity of the time,staring on TV’s Howdy Doody and staring as Cheta in the film Tarzan. (Michael Rougier—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #wildLIFEwednesday #Zippy #chimpsofinstagram
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