MaKimba and Ivan
Posted By thecircusblog on December 4, 2009
Every now and again the local newspaper of whatever town we were showing at would come out and do a little story on you. Some of the time they would get it right….this was one of those times. This story took place in late 1973, It was about my circus life, philosophy and the relationship with a large family of performing chimpanzees. MaKimba, my top comedy chimp is pictured here giving a little wave to the camera during the interview. He always knew when he was on…..he was such a ham and he would constantly upstage me. As you can see here he was a very large chimp, about 155 lbs at the time of this photo. This is the chimp that took my Bongie’s place after his death in Las Vegas. It took a few years for him to develop into a comedy chimp but when he did he was great.
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