List of Fictional Primates - Literature

Literature

Ape Origin Notes
Amy Congo A main protagonist, Amy is a Mountain Gorilla being studied by Dr. Peter Elliot. Her normal behavior begins to start going bad when she has nightmares about the Lost City of Zinj, located in the middle of the Congo and guarded by her gorilla-chimpanzee hybrid relatives. Her drawings make her unique; they are an exact match to a picture of the Lost City of Zinj from a book published in 1642.
Fiben Bolger The Uplift War A Neo-Chimpanzee
Ishmael Ishmael A philosopher gorilla who was captured from the wild when young and sent to the zoo. After the zoo sold him to a menagerie, an old Jewish man bought him and could communicate with him through his mind. Ishmael teaches captivity to the unnamed narrator.
The Librarian Discworld The Librarian appeared in the first novel of the series, The Colour of Magic, and was transformed into an orang-utan in The Light Fantastic as the Octavo fired a beam of magic upwards. On discovering that being an orang-utan had certain advantages for a librarian - he can climb up to high shelves, for example - he refused to be transformed back into a human and has remained an orang-utan ever since. The other wizards have gradually become used to the situation, to the extent that, from Night Watch: ‘if someone ever reported that there was an orang-utan in the Library, the wizards would probably go and ask the Librarian if he'd seen it.’
Shift The Chronicles of Narnia The main antagonist of The Last Battle, which is the last book of the series.

Shift is an ape who, like many animals in Lewis' work, can talk.

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