Curious george what kind of monkey

According to the Chinese zodiac, it's been the "Year of the Goat" since last February, and we're getting pretty tired of the nonstop goat-related festivities. Luckily, the lunar new year this month begins the "Year of the Monkey," so the future looks bright. But Jeopardy! All month, he'll be here to put a stop to all the monkey business. Then he picks George up, stuffs him in a bag, and takes him out of Africa on a boat.

The Reys, who actually escaped Nazi-occupied Paris on homemade bikes in , carrying with them the first Curious George manuscript, always referred to George as a monkey. His creation was almost certainly inspired by the two marmoset monkeys that the Reys themselves kept as pets when they lived in Brazil in the s.

Would you simply relegate the scope of his ranging indentity—the animal-imp allegory—to a mere curiosity, rather than the process and vehicle for his proper transformation as the Bildungsroman protagonist? I think not. There are two different questions: What does Curious George look like, and what did H.

Rey base Curious George on? But I happen to have a book about H. Rey next to me, and it says that he got the idea from the time he spent in Brazil and noticed the antics of the monkeys there: marmosets in particular. Well, I guess he could be a bonobo. Otherwise we are forced to the conclusion that Curious George, like ourselves, chimps, monkeys, thylacines, dinosaurs, hummingbirds, and axolotls, is actually a fish — since no group includes sharks, rays, sturgeons, guppies, tunas, and lungfish which does not also include mammals, birds, amphibians, and reptiles.

A human is a kind of ape, an ape is a kind of monkey, a monkey is a kind of primate, a primate is a kind of mammal, a mammal is a kind of vertebrate. Yes, it used to be the case that pedants would insist that apes were a sister group of monkeys and therefore technically not monkeys.

However, now we know that apes are a subgroup of monkeys, and therefore apes are monkeys. According to this usage whales are fish too, even though nitpickers insist they can only be called mammals. So we are members of the Craniata along with the hagfish and lampreys, and the Gnathostomata along with the sharks and bony fish, and the Sarcopterygii along with the lungfish. Sometimes we say that in a cladistic sense humans are apes, and apes are monkeys, and birds are reptiles, but in these cases we are using the colloquial terms in order to describe relationships in a simple form without resorting to scientific terminology.

I have heard that when monkeys smile, it signifies aggression, not happiness. He would loop his chain around the other post and wait for one of us to run by.

At the proper moment he would pull the chain, thereby tripping the hapless human. It was at this time that Oscar chose to take a crap.

My brother was helpless. He was kicking his leg but it was useless. Oscar had him right where he wanted him. However, they have black fur, black skin, a similar intermembral index to M. So, that probably rules them out too. I favor the hypothesis that George is an ape, but probably a juvenile based on the low degree of prognathism he exhibits. The only reason anyone calls him a monkey is because they are a moron. He has not tail.

And so are you. On first blush I suspect that the lack of a tail is a result of Hans Augusto Rey and Margret Rey both having difficulty drawing them. Limbs move in predictable ways and getting a simian pose right is conceptual easy to master. But tails, lacking easy to define rules and having utility in both form, like expressing mood or dominance, and function as both balance and gripper are harder to draw in and make look natural. There is also the structure of the book intended for children.

Without a tail Curious George is easy for a child to relate to. Add a tail and children might not so easily see themselves in CG. I like that you measured intermembral index, but you ignored hand posture. No monkey holds their hands in such a position during locomotion.

Case closed. I really think you should write this up in a manner similar to the talk about the correct classification of Grandicrocavis viasesamiensis. The great thing about it is all of you who noticed and questioned it. Accidental he is called a monkey when obviously an ape, I think not. Food for thought. Remember that Curious George first came out in