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a tiny anarchist with thumbs, plotting heists you'll never see coming
means A small-to-medium tree-dwelling primate with a tail, known for agility, mischief, and an unsettling amount of intelligence.
from "Monkey" first appears in English in the 1500s, and its deeper roots are genuinely murky. The most popular tale traces it to a Middle Low German beast-fable called 'Reynard the Fox,' in which a character named Moneke is the son of an ape — possibly a diminutive built on a name like Romance 'Monne.' That's the leading theory, but it remains unproven; nobody can fully nail down how the word crossed into English. What's clear is that before 'monkey,' English mostly made do with 'ape,' so the newcomer arrived to fill a gap and never left.
- tail grip
- some swing by tails strong enough to hang full-body
- facial recognition
- they identify individual humans and hold grudges
- war economy
- temple macaques steal items to ransom for food
- no apes
- monkeys have tails, apes do not
- space pioneer
- a monkey orbited Earth before any human did
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koko the gorilla — learned over 1,000 sign language words, lived 1971-2018 in california
nim chimpsky — chimpanzee taught sign language at columbia university in 1973, challenged language acquisition theories
hanuman langurs of india — sacred monkeys in hinduism, revered across india with temples dedicated to them