Anthropomorphic monkeys

Son Goku is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. He is based on Sun Wukong (known as Son Gokū in Japan and the Monkey King in the West), a main character of the classic 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West, combined with influences from the Hong Kong action cinema of Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee. Goku made his debut in the first Dragon Ball chapter, Bulma and Son Goku, originally published in Japan's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on December 3, 1984.

fictional monkey from the Donkey Kong series

thumb|300px|Panel from the first scroll, a monkey thief runs from animals with long sticks thumb|300px|Panel from the 3rd scroll, picturing two people jokingly playing tug-a-war with their heads thumb|300px|Fragment from the fourth scroll, a man gets defeated in a wrestling match. Separated from the original at some point. Miho Museum thumb|300px|Panel from the fourth scroll, samurai listen to their leader speak carefully

thumb|right|Mowgli made leader of the Bandar Log by John Charles Dollman, 1903 Bandar-log () is a term used in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1894) to describe the monkeys of the Seeonee jungle.

fable

book by Roald Dahl

ancient Meitei folktale about the old couple planting taro plants following the suggestion of the monkeys