What's Up With The Great Apes' Names?

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  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  9 місяців тому +28

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

    • @nickvinsable3798
      @nickvinsable3798 9 місяців тому +6

      😑 . . . You can believe it’s fictional all you like, but as a former hired gun (best description) for the United Nations’s Security Council, I’ve went through such “WTF!?” encounters with apes. An orangutan, male, acted as supporting sniper when I was on mission in Indonesia. Another involved Gorilla Guerrillas in Africa.

    • @death-istic9586
      @death-istic9586 9 місяців тому +2

      Love your videos!💚

    • @6ustavocosta
      @6ustavocosta 9 місяців тому +5

      Cesar and Dixie Kong are great chimps, Is Donkey Kong a Gorilla? Oranguru is the best orangutang, having even a bar in pokemon anime

    • @CharlesStearman
      @CharlesStearman 9 місяців тому +2

      What about Cheetah from the Tarzan movies? In many of them ( particularly the ones starring Johnny Weissmuller) he seems brighter than Tarzan.
      [Edit] I'd forgotten the Librarian in the late Terry Pratchett's "Discworld' novels, a human who was turned into an Orang Utan and refuses to let anyone change him back. He also objects very strongly (and often violently) to being called a 'monkey' - he is definitely an ape!

    • @ChristoAbrie
      @ChristoAbrie 9 місяців тому +2

      i think you meant to say "Kercheck", cuz the cheetah in Tarzan is called Sabor@@CharlesStearman edit: ok nevermind, didn't know there's a chimp called Cheeta from the original Tarzan movies.

  • @icewink7100
    @icewink7100 9 місяців тому +103

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

  • @kandipiatkowski8589
    @kandipiatkowski8589 9 місяців тому +52

    101 Dalmatians is 99 puppies plus Pongo and Perdita.

    • @fermintenava5911
      @fermintenava5911 9 місяців тому +6

      Originally, it was Pongo and his wife, Perdita and her husband, and 95 puppies, some from the Pongos, some from Perdita, some adopted.

    • @kandipiatkowski8589
      @kandipiatkowski8589 9 місяців тому +5

      @@fermintenava5911 so....in the book, Pongo and Perdita were not the parents of the original 15 (not sure if that's the right number) puppies? I have not read the book, I've only watched the movies. I know Pongo and Perdita (and their human parents) ended up adopting all the stolen puppies.

    • @fermintenava5911
      @fermintenava5911 9 місяців тому +7

      @@kandipiatkowski8589 Yeah, in the novel, Perdita was another Dalmatian whose children had been stolen, and she joined Pongo and Miss Pongo in their search.

    • @elliothennessy8360
      @elliothennessy8360 9 місяців тому

      I thought so! But I didn’t feel confident enough to bring it up lol

  • @scottmartin5990
    @scottmartin5990 9 місяців тому +25

    Paniscus is the Latin diminutive of Pan.

  • @jrr2480
    @jrr2480 9 місяців тому +26

    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.🐵

    • @GeraldEatsSoup
      @GeraldEatsSoup 9 місяців тому +5

      Planet of the Apes vibes

    • @jrr2480
      @jrr2480 9 місяців тому +1

      @@GeraldEatsSoup Fun Fact: The people who made Rise of the Planet of the Apes used Chimp Haven as a reference for the movie 🎥

    • @chitlitlah
      @chitlitlah 9 місяців тому

      I'm surprised I've never heard of the place having grown up pretty close to there. It looks like a cool place to visit.

  • @DawnDavidson
    @DawnDavidson 9 місяців тому +20

    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.

    • @BoomBox018
      @BoomBox018 9 місяців тому +9

      I think that just shows how much they experimented on Koba cause he shouldnt really be aggressive

    • @DawnDavidson
      @DawnDavidson 9 місяців тому +5

      @@BoomBox018 excellent point

  • @spddiesel
    @spddiesel 9 місяців тому +5

    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).

    • @kohakuaiko
      @kohakuaiko 9 місяців тому

      Someone make this and take my money!

  • @jrr2480
    @jrr2480 9 місяців тому +8

    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.

  • @robertmiller9735
    @robertmiller9735 9 місяців тому +7

    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.

  • @markoprvulovic2693
    @markoprvulovic2693 9 місяців тому +8

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

    • @fnjesusfreak
      @fnjesusfreak 9 місяців тому +1

      That's waht I've heard.

  • @_AstaLily
    @_AstaLily 9 місяців тому +9

    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?

  • @rmar127
    @rmar127 9 місяців тому +14

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

    • @morrisvalentneflatlander4784
      @morrisvalentneflatlander4784 3 місяці тому

      @@rmar127 those are hominids not apes. No one knows where and what species caused the hominids pongid split. A

  • @christinebrown3359
    @christinebrown3359 9 місяців тому +12

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

    • @turtleburger200
      @turtleburger200 9 місяців тому +2

      Is that the one who beat Minecraft?

    • @ChimpTony
      @ChimpTony 5 місяців тому

      Proffesor Wamba

    • @ChimpTony
      @ChimpTony 5 місяців тому

      Proffesor wamba

    • @ChimpTony
      @ChimpTony 5 місяців тому

      Proffesor Wamba

    • @ChimpTony
      @ChimpTony 5 місяців тому

      Proffessor wamba

  • @Lord_Skeptic
    @Lord_Skeptic 9 місяців тому +5

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

  • @billyr2904
    @billyr2904 9 місяців тому +11

    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.

  • @danadnauseam
    @danadnauseam 9 місяців тому +2

    The question is whether gorilla warfare has been observed.

  • @originalhgc
    @originalhgc 9 місяців тому +6

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

  • @christinebrown3359
    @christinebrown3359 9 місяців тому +9

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

  • @elliothennessy8360
    @elliothennessy8360 9 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @РадославРусев-л1й
    @РадославРусев-л1й 9 місяців тому +4

    Where is the most infamous gorilla HARAMBE

  • @erraticonteuse
    @erraticonteuse 9 місяців тому +4

    My favorite orangutan is the Librarian of Unseen University of Discworld 😊

  • @josesalinasmorales5332
    @josesalinasmorales5332 9 місяців тому +3

    You forgot Maurice.

  • @billyr2904
    @billyr2904 9 місяців тому +5

    Actually chimpanzees get there genus name from the Greek god of nature Pan.

  • @CharlesStearman
    @CharlesStearman 9 місяців тому +3

    I think the troglodytes part of the chimp's scientific name may come from ancient legends of a primitive cave-dwelling people said to live in North Africa, whom the Greeks called Troglodytes. The legend may have originated with misunderstood descriptions of the Pygmy people, or of actual chimps or gorillas.

    • @rmar127
      @rmar127 9 місяців тому

      It’s early morning here and my coffee hasn’t kicked in. When he said troglodytes, my brain heard troglobytes. And I thought gang on, that’s an entirely different creature

  • @JagoShogun
    @JagoShogun 7 місяців тому +1

    Homo doesn't mean human, it means similar.
    Hence, homophobia means you're afraid of anything similar to you(There's no such thing). Homosexual means to like the similar sex, and hetero means to like the different(opposing) sex.

    • @SeqZZ
      @SeqZZ 3 місяці тому

      Homo has 2 meanings. The Greek origin means sameness. The Latin origin means human.

  • @Invalid-user13k
    @Invalid-user13k 9 місяців тому +5

    Gotta love the great apes

  • @andrewmazzarini2742
    @andrewmazzarini2742 8 місяців тому

    1:20 A very noteworthy non-fictional orangutan was Ken Allen, a resident of the San Diego Zoo who was very friendly and notorious for escaping his enclosures

  • @alexandramilos392
    @alexandramilos392 9 місяців тому +1

    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

    • @G55544
      @G55544 6 місяців тому

      Humans ain’t wise

  • @CharlesStearman
    @CharlesStearman 9 місяців тому

    The chimps used in the PG Tips ads were housed at Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire and the last one died there in 2016.

  • @braedonclanton125
    @braedonclanton125 9 місяців тому +3

    There were 99 puppies plus the mom and dad… not 101 puppies

  • @panelvixen
    @panelvixen 9 місяців тому

    "Right turn, Clyde."
    -Every Which Way But Loose, 1978

  • @J2daMFnR
    @J2daMFnR 9 місяців тому +4

    Grape Ape Grape Ape

  • @douglasphillips5870
    @douglasphillips5870 9 місяців тому +1

    Bonobo is my favorite name for a type of ape

  • @danadnauseam
    @danadnauseam 9 місяців тому

    In the 1970s, there was an animal learning experiment featuring a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky, referring to the linguist Noam Chomsky.

  • @Idkpleasejustletmechangeit
    @Idkpleasejustletmechangeit 9 місяців тому +2

    Fun fact: the German word for "great ape" is "Menschenaffe". That literally means "human monkey".

    • @slump2p
      @slump2p 9 місяців тому

      Mens Chen Off

  • @BritishOrangutan123
    @BritishOrangutan123 6 місяців тому

    This guy cant go five seconds without going on a random tangent lmao

  • @originalhgc
    @originalhgc 9 місяців тому

    Don't forget another famous orangutan from movies -- Clint Eastwood co-starred with an orang named Clyde in "Every Which Way but Loose" and "Any Which Way You Can."

    • @sydhenderson6753
      @sydhenderson6753 9 місяців тому

      Also Mr. Smith in a short-lived tv series

  • @andycross3783
    @andycross3783 9 місяців тому

    The last PG Tips chimpanzee died in 2016 aged 48, her name was Choppers.

  • @jeanbellabasura1539
    @jeanbellabasura1539 9 місяців тому +1

    what about the orangutan in the Clint Eastwood film? you didn't mention him

  • @dpchase84
    @dpchase84 9 місяців тому

    The blep blep blep got me😂😂😂

  • @kandipiatkowski8589
    @kandipiatkowski8589 9 місяців тому +1

    Not necessarily my favorite primate, but I like Grape Ape.

  • @rogerwitte
    @rogerwitte 3 місяці тому

    “The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Globe

  • @simonschnedl
    @simonschnedl 9 місяців тому +1

    Gibbons!

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 9 місяців тому

    There was a real life chimp called Frodo. I don't like the word "monster" but I can't think of a better one.

  • @12what34the
    @12what34the 9 місяців тому

    He can talk!
    He can talk!?
    He can talk!
    He can talk?!
    He can talk!
    He can talk!
    I CAN SING!!!!!

  • @frederikahle4456
    @frederikahle4456 9 місяців тому

    Video Topic suggestion: The Origin of the Fitz-suffix, present in certain last names like Fitzroy, Fitzpatrick etc.

  • @NerdyLlama21
    @NerdyLlama21 9 місяців тому

    I thought that orangutan had something to do with orange.

  • @lp-xl9ld
    @lp-xl9ld 9 місяців тому

    Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp (American TV, early to mid 1970s)

  • @rudidavidson8422
    @rudidavidson8422 9 місяців тому

    Paul from the DNA Productions logos is a fictional chimpanzee

  • @PSDavison727
    @PSDavison727 5 місяців тому

    9:05 Already have buddy
    I’ve made several

  • @williswameyo5737
    @williswameyo5737 3 місяці тому

    Orangutan came from a Malay term meaning man of the forest- orang means man in Malay and utan- means forest

  • @NBK1122
    @NBK1122 9 місяців тому

    He left out Magilla Gorilla and the Great Grape Ape

  • @brianroberts783
    @brianroberts783 9 місяців тому

    Hang on, are you telling me that "human" and "humus" (decomposed organic matter in soil) might share a linguistic root?

  • @quartercomicsart6610
    @quartercomicsart6610 9 місяців тому

    Optimus Primal is cool, Beast Wars ... you forgot Great Ape and Magilla Gorilla from Hanna-Barbara cartoons and Detective Chimp from DC.

  • @Emperor_Oshron
    @Emperor_Oshron 9 місяців тому

    if you ever want to go back to primates, you could go for prehistoric ones--there's _lots_ of ones you could use a material for a video

  • @StergiosMekras
    @StergiosMekras 9 місяців тому

    This video is just prime...

  • @corstiaan-z2x
    @corstiaan-z2x 9 місяців тому

    What no Clyde take a right?

  • @megabigblur
    @megabigblur 9 місяців тому +2

    "Orang" doesn't mean "man", it means "person". Malay was originally gender-neutral (especially older words from the pre-Hindu, pre-Islamic, pre-colonial era) and even in modern times, pronouns and generic words for human/person are gender-neutral so if you're going to explain history and etymology please don't be putting Western gendered grammar and patriarchy where it doesn't belong.
    Also, the modern spelling of jungle/forest is "hutan" with an H in front.

    • @refindoazhar1507
      @refindoazhar1507 9 місяців тому +1

      The word "man" is also often used as gender-neutral term and it was originally even more gender-neutral.
      If you spell orangutan with an "H", people will think that you are talking about literal jungle tribe instead of a kind of ape

  • @solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad
    @solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad 9 місяців тому +9

    Human is such a lame name, why couldnt we have named ourselves something cool like World Crusher or smth

    • @chris1141987
      @chris1141987 9 місяців тому +3

      When we named ourselves human we still died all the time from ridiculous things. It's hard to feel like an awesome name when you're dying constantly. Lol

    • @solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad
      @solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad 9 місяців тому +1

      @@chris1141987 we still do that

    • @steventhompson9672
      @steventhompson9672 5 місяців тому

      "Human" is a name rooted in religious ideas. We are located on and dependant on the Earth, or humus, and distinct from the gods who were thought to live in the sky. The distinction goes back to proto-Indo-European, and has a parallel in the Hebrew Adam and adamah.

  • @lordnul1708
    @lordnul1708 9 місяців тому

    Darwin from Wild Thornberries is thebbest chimp.

  • @kimberlylewistyner2070
    @kimberlylewistyner2070 8 місяців тому

    1:15 oh

  • @tyrant-den884
    @tyrant-den884 9 місяців тому

    Bonobos are my favorite.

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 9 місяців тому

    A wise guy, huh?

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 9 місяців тому

    Humanity thinks its god's favorite creature.
    When it is CLEARLY bonobos if you know anything about them.

  • @Liethen
    @Liethen 9 місяців тому

    Captain marvel isn’t human

    • @tux_duh
      @tux_duh 9 місяців тому +1

      Yes she is... She was an air force pilot and got corrupted by alien tech her whole movies about her getting back her memories of earth..

  • @mingfanzhang8927
    @mingfanzhang8927 9 місяців тому +3

    😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

    • @mingfanzhang4600
      @mingfanzhang4600 9 місяців тому +2

      😊

    • @mingfanzhang8927
      @mingfanzhang8927 7 місяців тому

      @@mingfanzhang4600 I invite everyone to read the holy Quran ☪️☪️☪️☪️

  • @jamesdietz29
    @jamesdietz29 9 місяців тому +1

    None of these were "monkeys".

    • @lukebrowning4712
      @lukebrowning4712 6 місяців тому

      Yes we are

    • @jamesdietz29
      @jamesdietz29 6 місяців тому

      @@lukebrowning4712 WE are apes, not monkeys. There is a difference.

  • @adam2218-
    @adam2218- 9 місяців тому

    I can see you reading 😂

  • @xneapolisx
    @xneapolisx 9 місяців тому +2

    We (humans) and the other animals you mentioned in this video are not monkeys. We're apes. Monkeys have tails; apes do not. It's easy to remember. What we do have in common with monkeys is that we're both primates. Cheers! 😅

    • @refindoazhar1507
      @refindoazhar1507 9 місяців тому

      Apes are a subgroup of monkeys the same way monkeys are a subgroup of mammals

  • @ChadFutral-fn9zw
    @ChadFutral-fn9zw 9 місяців тому

    mpongi kind of sounds Swahili too.

  • @awedelen1
    @awedelen1 9 місяців тому

    🦍🦧🐒🧍🏽😁

  • @morrisvalentneflatlander4784
    @morrisvalentneflatlander4784 5 місяців тому

    Why do you keep calling humans apes? Apes are pongids not hominids millions of years of evolution and dozens of species separate us. There are many differences between humans and apes humans are carnivorous, walk erect, perspire, have thinner hair, have a down sloped nose, make sophisticated tools. Humans in some ways have more in common with dolphins, whales, and wolves than apes.

    • @endi5514
      @endi5514 5 місяців тому

      If gorillas still evolving they still be apes.if we hawe a eytra bone or extra think then humans can be a nather family.

    • @williswameyo5737
      @williswameyo5737 3 місяці тому

      Humans are not apes, we are hominids, we shared a common ancestor with apes, but we split from the apes millons of years ago and formed our own line of hominids

    • @SeqZZ
      @SeqZZ 3 місяці тому

      You don't understand taxonomy

    • @morrisvalentneflatlander4784
      @morrisvalentneflatlander4784 3 місяці тому

      @@SeqZZ and you don't understand physical anthropology

  • @kimberlylewistyner2070
    @kimberlylewistyner2070 8 місяців тому +1

    🦍🦧🦧🦍🦧🦍🦧🦍

  • @mingfanzhang4600
    @mingfanzhang4600 9 місяців тому +2

    😊😊😊😊😊😊😊