Pet monkey
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Curious George
, the pet monkey, are enduring characters in books, comics, film and television.A pet monkey is a monkey kept as a pet. The practice of keeping monkeys as pets is controversial.[1]
Monkeys have often been favorite pets of queens such as Catherine de' Medici and Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I.[2]
Ship's monkeys
When the British first began to explore
Napoleonic wars; it is rumored that such practices led to a monkey being washed ashore and hanged in Hartlepool, causing the people of Hartlepool to be nicknamed the Monkey Hangers
.
As service animals for the disabled
Some organizations train
positive punishment, the quadriplegics had the ability to deliver a warning tone or 0.5 second shock to the monkey. As with all primates, monkeys must never be fully trusted with a human life in an environment they find demanding or where their needs are not being attended to. In at least one study, the monkey completed all tasks and punishment was used only in the learning stage.[4]
In popular culture
In popular culture both actual and fictionalized accounts of pet monkeys are utilized extensively. Monkeys are popular in numerous books, television programs, and movies.
television series Monkey, the literary characters Monsieur Eek and Curious George are all examples. The winged monkeys are prominent characters in The Wizard of Oz
.
However, pop culture often incorrectly labels
Librarian of the Unseen University
is an orangutan who gets very violent if referred to as a monkey.
Famous pet monkeys
There have been many famous pet monkeys with
Los Angeles Angels' mascot "Rally Monkey." Finster played Harvey Keitel's pet thief, Dodger in the movie Monkey Trouble. Bubbles was a companion to Michael Jackson and became intertwined in his celebrity and was even a subject of a Jeff Koons
sculpture. Frankie the Monkey has been seen in Sean-Paul and Juliane's magic act all over the country.
Curious George
and he has been linked with numerous products and companies.List of fictional pet monkeys
- Literature
- Ampersand is the name of Yorick Brown's pet monkey in the comic book series, Y: The Last Man.
- Chee-Chee is the pet companion of Doctor Dolittle, created by Hugh Lofting.
- In A Little Princess, the heroine finds and returns Carrisford's pet monkey
- Cartoons
- Abu is the pet in Disney's Aladdin
- Beppo was Superman's pet monkey.
- Bippy, a small monkey that accompanies Abra-Catastrophe
- Boots is the pet explorer in Dora the Explorer
- Chim-Chim is the pet monkey of Speed Racer and his family
- Mojo was Homer Simpson's helper monkey who eventually adopts Homer's unhealthy lifestyle and becomes very obese
- Mr. Teeny on The Simpsons, is Krusty the Clown's assistant
- Mr. Twitchy from Rated A for Awesome was the pet of a group of four 12-year-old kids who are the main protagonists of the series
- So-So is the pet sidekick of Peter Potamus, from Hanna-Barbera.
- Tenshin is Meirin Kanzaki's pet monkey in Ask Dr. Rin!
- Film
- Dodger is the trained pickpocket monkey from Monkey Trouble (1994).
- Bonzo is the chimpanzee that Ronald Reagan takes care of in Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)/
- Mona is a monkey who accompanies two astronauts to Mars in Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964).
- Spike is Ace Ventura's monkey companion in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) and Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995).
- Monkey is Dante's pet monkey in Grandma's Boy
- Jack the Monkey is Captain Barbossa's pet capuchin monkey named after Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.
- Caesar is Will Rodman's chimpanzee in Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011).
- The couple that John Cusack and Cameron Diaz's characters form in Being John Malkovich (1999) have a pet monkey.
- Norma Desmond owns a chimpanzee prior to the beginning of Sunset Boulevard (1950). The chimpanzee's death, in a roundabout way, prompts Desmond to take on Joe Gillis as a kept man.
- Television
- Debbie the Bloop (named for the unusual sound it made) was the chimpanzee with very long ears from the first season of Lost in Space.
- Klaus was Dieter's touchable monkey on the Saturday Night Live skit "Sprockets"
- Joey and Davey Monkey – on Sesame Street
- Jonny the Monkey is "the most famous celebrity in Kazakhstan" according to Borat in many of his interviews and introduced as Kazakhstan's "most successful actor" by Borat in an opening skit of "Saturday Night Live" in November 2006.[8]
- Marcel was Ross' pet monkey on the TV show Friends.
See also
References
- ^ Garrod, Ben (February 28, 2016). "No more monkey business: why primates should never be pets". The Guardian. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-571-24491-1
- ^ "A monkey on board ship". Reading-book. Nelson Thomas. 1864. p. 140.
monkey ship.
- ^ "An Evaluation of Capuchin Monkeys Trained to Help Severely Disabled Individuals" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 3, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
- ^ Curious George . About the Program | PBS KIDS
- ^ "Curious George . About the Reys". Retrieved March 10, 2008.
- ^ "The Adventures of Curious George". Retrieved May 2, 2019 – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "VF.com Q&A: Borat Sagdiyev | Vanity Fair". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 2, 2019.