What's it going to do, throw poop at us all day? Because that's basically all that a monkey is good for. Stinky, nasty, biting evil imps.
Now if it had been an orangutan....
all of the anti-monkey sentiment in this thread makes me sad, and I suspect Volkov of secretly working to undermine the pro-monkey campaign. monkeys are adorable, intelligent, and heck, if they threw guano, all you guys would say oh thank you monkey! I love you monkey! and then it would be all like 'eee eee' and your HEART WOULD MELT.
Monkeys are adorable, sweet animals. Capuchins in particular, who are often trained as service animals. And if you want to get technical, rabbits defecate waaay more than monkeys do, and feces-flinging is often for territorial reasons (not much different from a dog peeing on everything it sees) as well as when they feel threatened.
An APE (like orangutans, chimpanzees are apes) ate that woman's face off, not a monkey. There are a few differences: apes have no tail, are able to swing from tree branch to tree branch (monkeys are unable to do so and typically run along branches like cats), are generally larger (all but the gibbon), and are often more aggressive and confrontational than monkeys. Which, naturally, makes a chimpanzee a terrible pet.
Djabril is a wise glitch with sound logic - I urge all you glitches to carefully consider his argument. Just think - swinging from tree branch to tree branch! And sure, they would start out wild, but who's to say they couldn't eventually be trained? At that point, pretty much *anything is possible*. Just open your mind to the possibilities, and say Yes to Monkey!
Toofunny! I had a pet squirrel monkey years ago, and he was absolutely adorable, and never threw poop at anyone, haha. He'd sit on my shoulder and make a purring sound while he played with my hair. He liked to chase the cats, especially the black one, and we had to cover all the mirrors while he was out of his cage, cause he'd attack the monkey he saw! (himself of course rofl) I did have to clean his cage twice a day, cause think of it...they live in trees and poop just disappears from their world, for all they know.
I also had a pet house rabbit, uncaged, for a few years. Almost as adorable, affectionate and funny. But I have to tell you, when he didn't feel like using the litter box, he just *ate* his poop.