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This list of fictional primates is a subsidiary to the list of fictional animals. The list is restricted to notable non-human primate characters from the world of fiction including chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, gibbons, monkeys, lemurs, and other primates.
| Character | Species | Origin and Author | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claw the Giant Ape | Ape | Beast Quest | Claw is the second beast Tom fights in Series Two, The Golden Armor. He guards the chain mail. He has a tail with a sting rather like a scorpion. He lives in the Dark Jungle in Avantia. |
| Francine Frensky | Monkey | Arthur's Valentine by Marc Brown | A tomboy who loves sports, drumming, and singing. She is 8 years old, and she is the best player on her team in just about every sport they play, rivaled only by the Brain at soccer and basketball. |
| Ishmael | Gorilla | Ishmael by Daniel Quinn | A philosopher who was captured from the wild when young and sent to the zoo. After the zoo sold him to a menagerie, an old Jewish man bought him and could communicate with him through his mind. Ishmael teaches captivity to the unnamed narrator. |
| The Librarian | Orangutan | Discworld by Terry Pratchett | The Librarian appeared in the first novel of the series, The Colour of Magic , and was transformed into an orang-utan in The Light Fantastic as the Octavo fired a beam of magic upwards. On discovering that being an orang-utan had certain advantages for a librarian - he can climb up to high shelves, for example - he refused to be transformed back into a human and has remained an orang-utan ever since. The other wizards have gradually become used to the situation, to the extent that, from Night Watch : 'if someone ever reported that there was an orang-utan in the Library, the wizards would probably go and ask the Librarian if he'd seen it'. |
| Ape | Origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Ape-X | Squadron Supreme #5 | A member of The Squadron Supreme; Also the name of a super hero who becomes a powerful gorilla after donning a magic Mexican wrestling mask |
| Monsieur Mallah | Doom Patrol (vol. 1) #86 | An intelligent homosexual gorilla created by an evil brain in a jar. He was a member of the Brotherhood of Evil, enemies of the original Doom Patrol. |
| Titano | Superman | A fictional character appearing in DC Comics, primarily as a foe of Superman. |
| Ape | Origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Aldo | Planet of the Apes | The leader of the gorilla factions (and the ape revolution, by extension) during the rise of the ape society prior to humanity's downfall, as the "lowest species" of the planet. |
| King Kong | King Kong | A giant movie monster resembling a gorilla, that has appeared in several movies since 1933. These include the groundbreaking 1933 movie, the film remakes of 1976 and 2005, as well as various sequels of the first two films. The character has become one of the world's most famous movie icons and, as such, has transcended the medium. |
| Caesar | Planet of the Apes | Intelligent Ape, who is abandoned and rallies a group of apes to escape from a cruel caging facility. |
| Mighty Joe Young | Mighty Joe Young | An abnormally large gorilla who grew up in Africa and was brought to the USA by his owner/friend Jill after being convinced she and the ape could be a popular night club act. After an incident with three drunken patrons, his human friend helped to return him to his homeland in Africa. |
| Skar King | Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire | A tyrannical orangutan/chimpanzee titan who is obsessed with conquering the surface after being trapped by Godzilla who imprisoned him and his titan ape army down in the Hollow Earth for thousands of years. Until he meets Kong who was brought over by a young ape named Suko and controls the first ancient titan Shimo by inflicting pain with a crystal that is connected to her. |
| Name | Species | Origin | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bingo | Orangutan | The Banana Splits | Member of The Banana Splits , an all-animal band. He played the drums. |
| Professor Bobo | Gorilla | Mystery Science Theater 3000 | |
| Zoboomafoo | Coquerel's sifaka | Zoboomafoo | Titular puppet lemur |
This section deals with notable primates who are prominently featured in various video game titles, either as main characters or notable supporting characters.
| Character | Species | Origin | Platform(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agent 9 | Monkey | Spyro: Year of the Dragon | PlayStation | A space monkey introduced as a brief playable character, who was trapped by the Sorceress. He has a laser and can eliminate rhynocs with ease. |
| AiAi | Monkey | Super Monkey Ball | GameCube | Encased in transparent ball. |
| Amigo | Monkey | Samba de Amigo | Sega Arcades • Dreamcast • Wii | The player character in this Samba based rhythm game. |
| Andross | Star Fox | SNES | The archenemy of the Star Fox team. | |
| Andrew Oikonny | Star Fox 64 | Nintendo 64 | The nephew of Andross, and a member of Star Wolf, the rivals of the Star Fox team. | |
| Bonkers | Gorilla | Kirby | A gorilla who first appeared in Kirby's Adventure. As a mini boss, He fights Kirby with his hammer. | |
| Conga the Gorilla | Gorilla | Banjo-Kazooie | N64 · Xbox Live Arcade | A giant gorilla who first appears in Mumbo's Mountain. |
| Diddy Kong | Spider monkey | Donkey Kong Country | SNES · GBC · GBA · Wii · N64 | Donkey Kong's sidekick. |
| Dixie Kong | Chimpanzee | Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest | SNES · GBA · Wii | Diddy Kong's girlfriend. |
| Donkey Kong | Gorilla | Donkey Kong | GBA · SNES · 3DS · Nintendo Switch · Wii · WiiU · Gamecube · N64 · | The main character of Donkey Kong Country, and one of Mario’s friends. Not to be confused with his grandfather, Cranky Kong. The villain of the original arcade game. |
| Donkey Kong Jr. | Gorilla | Donkey Kong Jr. | Arcade · Atari 2600 · Atari 7800 · Atari 8-bit · ColecoVision · GBA · Intellivision · NES · 3DS · Wii | Cranky Kong's son and Donkey Kong's father. |
| Dr. M | Mandrill | Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves | PlayStation 2 | A mad doctor who was eager to open the vault where the fortune of the Cooper family was stored. |
| Gorilla | Gorilla | Gekido | PlayStation · Game Boy Color | An unlockable character |
| Gorimondo | Gorilla | Kirby and the Forgotten Land | Nintendo Switch | A Gorilla who is a member of the Beast Pack. |
| Mico | Monkey | Brawl Stars | Mobile | An “actor” who brags about his job at “Brawlywood”(an-universe equivalent of Hollywood) when he is just the mic operator. |
| Monkey King [1] | Monkey | Dota 2 | PC | A playable character inspired by Sun Wukong, the main character in the Chinese epic Journey to the West. |
| Mookie | Monkey | Kirby and the Forgotten Land | Nintendo Switch | A monkey who is a member of the beast pack. |
| Scorporilla | Gorilla/Scorpion hybrid | Crash of the Titans | PlayStation 2 · Xbox 360 · Wii · PlayStation Portable | Hybrid mutant created by Dr. Neo Cortex, is a combination of a gorilla and scorpion. She comes with a huge scorpion's tail and claws with red stripes running down her arms. |
| Porter | Monkey | Animal Crossing | Nintendo 64 (Animal Forest) · GameCube · Nintendo 3DS | Runs the train station in most Animal Crossing games. |
| Specter | Monkey | Ape Escape | PlayStation · PlayStation Portable | Rules over lesser apes known as Piposaru. |
| Toki | Geeshergam | Toki: Going Ape Split | Arcade | A human that is transformed into an enchanted ape who must battle hordes of enemies to save a princess. |
| Ukiki | Monkey | Super Mario 64 | Nintendo 64 · Wii · Wii U | A small monkey that steals Mario's cap. |
| Winston | Gorilla | Overwatch | PC · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One | A Gorilla with superior intelligence. |
| Wukong | Monkey | League of Legends | PC | A playable champion inspired by Sun Wukong, the main character in the Chinese epic Journey to the West. |
| Wukong | Monkey | Warframe | PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC | A robotic "Warframe" inspired by Sun Wukong, the main character in the Chinese epic Journey to the West. |
Gorillas are herbivorous, predominantly ground-dwelling great apes that inhabit the tropical forests of equatorial Africa. The genus Gorilla is divided into two species: the eastern gorilla and the western gorilla, and either four or five subspecies. The DNA of gorillas is highly similar to that of humans, from 95 to 99% depending on what is included, and they are the next closest living relatives to humans after chimpanzees and bonobos.
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes. Primates arose 85–55 million years ago first from small terrestrial mammals, which adapted for life in tropical forests: many primate characteristics represent adaptations to the challenging environment among tree tops, including large brain sizes, binocular vision, color vision, vocalizations, shoulder girdles allowing a large degree of movement in the upper limbs, and opposable thumbs that enable better grasping and dexterity. Primates range in size from Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs 30 g (1 oz), to the eastern gorilla, weighing over 200 kg (440 lb). There are 376–524 species of living primates, depending on which classification is used. New primate species continue to be discovered: over 25 species were described in the 2000s, 36 in the 2010s, and six in the 2020s.
Apes are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys. Apes do not have tails due to a mutation of the TBXT gene. In traditional and non-scientific use, the term ape can include tailless primates taxonomically considered Cercopithecidae, and is thus not equivalent to the scientific taxon Hominoidea. There are two extant branches of the superfamily Hominoidea: the gibbons, or lesser apes; and the hominids, or great apes.
The Rock-afire Explosion (RAE) is an animatronic character band designed and manufactured by Creative Engineering, Inc. (CEI) for use in ShowBiz Pizza Place restaurants in the 1980s and early 1990s. The band's characters were various anthropomorphized animals, including a brown bear, a grey wolf and a silverback gorilla. They performed medleys of classic rock, pop, and country music, as well as original compositions and comedic skits.
Apenheul Primate Park is a zoo in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. It specializes in apes and monkeys. It opened in 1971 and was the first zoo in the world where monkeys could walk around freely in the forest and between the visitors. It started with just a few species, now it displays more than 30 different primates, among them bonobo, gorilla and orangutan.
A pet monkey is a monkey kept as a pet. The practice of keeping monkeys as pets is controversial.
Geronimo (1829–1909) was a Chiricahua Apache leader.
Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regard to their scope.
Monkey Jungle is a 30-acre (12 ha) primatarium and zoological park located in South Miami, Florida. Established in 1933 by Joseph DuMond for the exhibition and study of endangered monkeys in semi-natural habitats after releasing 6 Java Macaques into a subtropical forest, the park is now home to over 300 primates.
Titano the Super-Ape is a supervillain who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics, primarily as a foe of Superman. The character is a small chimpanzee named Toto who was sent into space for test flight, until an exposure of combined rays have made him grow to gigantic size and gave him Kryptonite-like powers. As a "Super-Ape", Titano rampaged through Metropolis several times in Superman and Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen during the Silver Age, and also appeared in some "Tales of the Bizarro World" stories in Adventure Comics. After a poorly-received 1978 appearance, Titano was not used again in the comic.
"Gitarzan" is a novelty song released by Ray Stevens in 1969 about a character who lives in a jungle and forms a musical band with his female partner, Jane, and their pet monkey. The song features Tarzan's jungle calls, scat singing, and a funky boogie-woogie, a quote from the song "Swinging on a Star", with the line "Carrying moonbeams home in a jar" superimposed over an insistent G Major ostinato, and a melody from Martha and the Vandellas' "Honey Chile" in its chorus. The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 31 May 1969 and #10 in Canada in May 1969. It did best in New Zealand, where it reached #2. The music and lyrics were written by Stevens with a title supplied by Bill Justis. Justis is officially credited as Bill Everette.
Marvel Apes is a four-issue limited series by comics publisher Marvel Comics which started publication in October 2008. The series is written by Karl Kesel with art by Ramon Bachs and covers by John Watson.
The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo ; Gorilla ; Pan ; and Homo, of which only modern humans remain.
The Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary in Cross River State in southern Nigeria covers 104 km2 (40 sq mi). The wildlife sanctuary was founded in 2000 to provide refuge for endangered animal species, including the Cross River gorilla, the Nigeria-Cameroon chimpanzee, the drill and the gray-necked rockfowl.
La Vallée des Singes is a primate park in Romagne, France.
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