Note that these comparisons are being made among Old World Primates. If New World Primates are included in the mix, there may end up being more questions than answers. My family had a Macaque when I was growing up. Maybe a short little stub. I do remember learning how to groom him. I was the only one to do that with him. I must have felt sorry for him. After my experience growing up with a monkey for a pet I seriously discourage anyone from having one. One, of many examples. Just two posts.
We chained Oscar to one of the posts in the good weather. 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. He is most likely referred to as a monkey so younger children may relate to him. He is 2 years old, although he acts the same age as Allie. Allie is 5 years old. He will sometimes act the same as Marco. Marco is 10 years old.
George has appeared in every episode to date. There's another character in Toy Story 3 who resembles him and his name is Monkey. George's cameo in the "Book People Unite" commercial. He is the main protagonist in the series. Curious George has made a cameo in the Book People Unite commercial hanging on to some balloons.
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. But I'm going to quibble with George's own creators here. I don't think he's a curious little monkey. In fact, I don't think he's a monkey at all. Response by poster: Thanks everyone, for the great answers. I could gratuitously mark all of them as best answer. Let me summarize the arguments.
This explanation comes in various forms: it's an alternate reality where monkeys don't have to have tails; and it's meant to entertain children. I kind of buy these arguments, except that the PBS cartoon is designed to teach math and science principles to children.
They take great care to make everything else educational, so why not this detail? I suppose there are lots of other unrealistic details, such as George being left unsupervised while the Man in the Yellow Hat goes off to work.
This is probably just a plot device so George can get into trouble while being curious. Furthermore, keeping George as monkey allows them to remain faithful to the original books. The Reys didn't know better in the s. This makes sense to me.
Also, I think they could have drawn tails if they wanted to. The PBS artists can probably draw tails too, given that they draw things like dinosaur skeletons.
Good point, but I would have a hard time explaining this linguistic convention to my kid. Point well taken, but everything else in the books and TV show has realistic proportions. To sum up, Curious George is a fictional character in a world where monkeys don't have to have tails and have near-human intelligence, but not verbal ability, because the Reys didn't know better, being artists s rather than primatologists in the s.
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