Tonka the chimpanzee was a star of George of the Jungle but after he was in the 1997 movie, there was some confusion about his whereabouts and if he was even dead or alive.
His owner, Tonia Haddix, had said that the chimp had passed away after suffering a stroke and then heart failure with a judge in Missouri being told that the primate had been burned in a pit.
It now turns out that Tonka never died at all and for the past nearly 25 years have been secretly hidden at Haddix's home in Sunrise Beach, Missouri.
