page_title: The Ape and the Fox
hierarchical_section_title: The Ape and the Fox
caption_attribution_description: English: The fable of the Monkey King, Plate XIII from Johann Elias Ridinger's Instructive Fables from the Animal Kingdom for the Improvement of Manners and especially the Instruction of Youth (1744). It carries the inscription "A high social position is not always matched by intelligence".
context_page_description: The Ape and the Fox is a fable credited to Aesop and is numbered 81 in the Perry Index. However, the story goes back before Aesop’s time and an alternative variant may even be of Oriental origin.
context_section_description: The Ape and the Fox is a fable credited to Aesop and is numbered 81 in the Perry Index.  However, the story goes back before Aesop’s time and an alternative variant may even be of Oriental origin.
caption: "The Monkey King", Johann Elias Ridinger's Fable XIII, 1744
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