your 'hard questions' have nothing to do with the thread, jackass, so just let us talk about monkeys without shitting everything up, goddamn it. it was a good question. there were some really interesting initial reactions of the west to the different kinds of apes. fuck it, anyone still want to talk about ops question? i love this shit, and i know about some early interactions the west had with gorillas and chimps if you want the stories.