Why There Isn't An Ape Or Monkey Avatar... Options

[Odog L. Akuji]

WHY ISN'T THERE AN APE OR MONKEY AVATAR!?

[Beagan]

WHY ISN'T THERE AN APE OR MONKEY AVATAR!?

Once upon a time, there were no hyoomans either, as Furcadia steered away from the primate category of critters. I am sure if there is enough demand for it, we could get apes or monkeys in the future. Perhaps something similar to Hanuman, but without the religious connotations.

[Kamose]

The primary objection to having anthropomorphic primates is that they would look too human. However, since DEP has added both Ferians and humans, it's possible that DEP might reconsider primates.

Talzhemir made some big gorilla avatars that are pretty cool. Gorillas are ferral though and Furcadia usually does anthro animals. An anthro ape is a human.

[Heavens cat]

I use the Hyooman on my monkey alt, but I would definitely buy a monkey digo. <3

[Kamose]

An anthropomorphic monkey from Breath of Fire II: Sten.

[Beagan]

An anthropomorphic monkey from Breath of Fire II: Sten.

That was my exact first thought, Kamose, especially since Sten is definitely not very human looking.

[Telelia]

this argument could be made about avain and lizards- and by avain I mean wings as arms not wing attachment.

[Xxysthstris]

Monkey > Sten.
If it not similar in theme, I shall be very, VERY SAD.

Barring that, we always have Justin StinCoy or Dream Dancer to fall back on.

[Rydia Aslin]

I see your Monkey and raise you two great sages, equal of heaven, the handsome monkey kings, both Sun Wukong!

...Although I do have to wonder what a ferian hyooman would look like. (Feral children being an entirely seperate and unfortunate thing, of course.)

[Tige]

Monkeys and Apes, you say?

[Beagan]

These are all fun suggestions!

I personally, probably would not use a monkey or ape avatar, but these are all great ideas.

[Dream Dancer]

I thought it was because DEP didn't want to simian around with them.

Runs from the flying yellow bent fruit.

[BlossomPeach]

A monkey avatar hmmm...That does sound intresting. I would love to see someone else as one just to see how they look up close, as the furcadia market it is hard to actually get a really good idea on a digo. ^.^ I think of "Planet of the Apes" when I think of monkey avatars.

[Baubles Jr.]

An anthro ape does not automatically default to a human. Try putting a human into the gorilla pen at the zoo and see if they can converse in a civilized manner without the gorilla ripping the human's face off. Go on; I'll wait.

Back? Still have a face that is poop-free? Good; you weren't actually crazy and dumb enough to crawl into the gorilla pen.

Humans and our closest ancestor, the chimpanzee, diverged from each other five million years ago. A lot can happen in five million years and a lot did; our ancestors evolved into the upright walking Australopithecus and eventually into the genus Homo.

It's like comparing a Chihuahua and a Great Dane (which are still technically in the same species, unlike humans and great apes). Technically, you could get them to mate via artificial insemination. But I'm pretty sure if the Chihuahua tried to give birth to that baby, it'd die. They might not even be genetically compatible at this point in their evolution.