monkey

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Another famous performer didn’t have to be on set at all: Martin Scorsese, who voices a fast-talking four-armed digital fellow who looks like a monkey and works in a food cart.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Footage purportedly of Sunday's incident filmed by other zoogoers and shared on social media shows a person wearing a costume and carrying a stuffed toy jumping over a fence and into the monkey enclosure.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

The zoo added that it was considering a full ban on filming around the monkey enclosure and was putting requests to film from YouTubers temporarily on hold.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Plush toy versions of his cats and monkey characters sit on recently upholstered matte orange, cream and red booths.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

“Grandpa, I don’t think that trainer knows what he’s talking about. Why, you couldn’t make friends with that monkey in a hundred years.”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls