Mammal Stereotypes - Simians - 32 - Page 1

Funny and often mischievous, monstrous, amorous ape

The funny and often mischievous monkey/ape. Examples: King Louie, Cheetah in Tarzan, Abu, Mighty Joe Young, Jocko in Jo, Zette and Jocko, Curious George, Choco in Jommeke, Boots in Dora The Explorer, Kongo, from Misha. The monstrous or brutish ape (usually a gorilla). Examples: King Kong, General Ursus, many Bigfoot stories, the Yeti.

The simians (infraorder Simiiformes, Anthropoidea) are the "higher primates" familiar to most people: the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans, (together being the catarrhines), and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines. The simians are split into three groups. The New World monkeys in parvorder Platyrrhini split from the rest of the simian line about 40 mya, leaving the parvorder Catarrhini occupying the Old World. This group split about 25 mya between the Old World monkeys and the apes. "