Chongo's reported death is an elaborate sham. The was no alcohol in the banana daiquiris. Chongo only pretended to die. The EMTs who responded to the emergency call and pronounced him dead on the scene were in on the charade. Half-way to the morgue, they pulled into a dark alley where Chongo got into a waiting car and the body of a poor chimp who'd died in an eyeliner experiment gone bad was loaded into the ambulance.

Chongo's current whereabouts are unknown.