What's Up With The Great Apes' Names?

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[NameExplain]

Favourite fictional great ape? And of course suggest a topic for next Monday!

[icewink]

Guy who has a channel devoted to talking about names: “what I love most about these monkeys has to be their names”

[kandipiatkowski]

101 Dalmatians is 99 puppies plus Pongo and Perdita.

[scottmartin]

Paniscus is the Latin diminutive of Pan.

[jrr]

Chimp Haven is a sanctuary for more than 300 chimpanzees retired from laboratory research. The 200-acre sanctuary is located in Eddie D. Jones Nature Park in Keithville, Louisiana, approximately 22 miles (35 km) southwest of Shreveport.🐵

[spddiesel]

5:21 I've always wanted someone to do a shot by shot remake of "101 Dalmatians" but with Chihuahuas; we can work your character into it as well. The leads are Paco (voiced by Cheech Marin) & Juanita (Sofia Vargera), and the villian can be a Lucha Libre wrestler named Gorilla Deville (Jack Black, of course).

[DawnDavidson]

Bonobos are the best! They negotiate and solve most if not all of their conflicts not by conflict and war, but by having sex. 😅 Having a Bonobo as a bad guy in Planet of the Apes is actually really weird as a result.

[elliothennessy]

I have a fictional orangutan! The Librarian from Discworld. He works in the library at the University in Ankh-Morpork. He used to be a man (wizard), but he was accidentally turned into an orangutan and he won’t let anyone try to change him back.

[_AstaLily]

I bought your books and I really like them! I took them everywhere while I was reading them and they were super cool - will you publish another one any time soon?

[jrr]

Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes.

[robertmiller]

Chimpanzees and bonobos are equally closely related to humans, their lines having split from one another well after the Pan line split from the human.

[markoprvulovic]

Maybe Pan (lat. tax. genus) is given after ancient Greek god Pan, protector of the forest, hybrid looking between man and animal?

[Lord_Skeptic]

1:04 there is also the one that shows up at the Addams family house. You rang u tang.

Shooting stars.

[christinebrown]

Bonobos don't need a fictional hero, they have a real-life celebrity, Kanzi of language learning fame.

[billyr]

There is a somewhat well kown gorilla in the video game Overwatch called Winston.

I actually really love gorillas, because they exhibit very human behaviours that just makes them wonderful.

[originalhgc]

When you get around to doing names from books or movies, you'll have to touch on Major Major Major Major from "Catch-22."

[christinebrown]

Lol, I am literally doing a project on chimpanzees today.

[rmar]

You should have given an honourable mention to the lost great apes like Neanderthals, homo florensis, Denisovans, homo erectus etc etc

[danadnauseam]

The question is whether gorilla warfare has been observed.

[alexandramilos]

Orangutan - Forest man, man of the forest
Gorilla - Tribe of hairy women
Chimpanzee - Ape, mock man
Bonobo -
Human - Of man, earth, earthly being - Wise Human, wise ape