Anthropomorphic animals- include monkeys and apes?

Cafe Society
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  • Or are those a little too close to human to count?
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I would say some depictions of Sun Wukong would count.

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Unless I’m misunderstanding the OP, there are plenty of examples of eg anthropomorphic apes. Magilla Gorilla. Also Ape of George of the Jungle.

King Kong may not qualify and I guess Kong of Donkey Kong won’t either. There are examples of humans turning into Apes in the Simpson’s as well as the alt comic Zot!.

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To anthropomorphize something is just to ascribe human qualities to a thing that it doesn’t actually have. Apes are kinda humanlike in real life, sure, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t make them more human than they actually are. A bear can walk on two legs in real life and can even wear a hat. That doesn’t mean that Yogi Bear isn’t an anthropomorphize.

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Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys was what I immediately thought of as an example of “anthropomorphized monkeys and apes”. A bunch of primates “evolved” to be more humanlike.

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Phil Krubnuckle, the gorilla pharmacist, in “Doc Rat” comes instantly to mind.

The “Sonic the Hedgehog” team has an anthro gorilla and an anthro monkey.

Lots more examples.

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Is anthropomorphizing only limited to humans?

Or can apes, monkeys, dolphins do it?

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“Anthro-” means “human,” so no. A dolphin who made another animal more dolphin-like would be engaging in cetaceanomorphizing.