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My thermodynamics professor usually incorporates monkeys into his tests and quizzes somehow- I think the first test I ever had with him involved a monkey stumbling across a frictionless piston-cyliner device in the jungle reading 100 kPa internal pressure, so the monkey decided to test his strength by forcing the piston back until the gauge read 200 kPa. Then his girlfriend who he met on winter vacation came by, and he challenged her to compress it to 500 kPa, since she was a silver-backed gorilla. Snarling "I don't need help from a girlie-man like you!" she pushes it back to 500 kPa. We were then to figure out the change in volume, as I recall, given that the initial volume of the cylinder was 1 m^3 and it contained air at 25 C. (You have to use the Ideal Gas Law for it, PV=mRT.)
His next test featured evil mutant zombies at the Lake Anna nuclear power plant, trying to acheive a certain amount of efficiency more than the monkeys could do. Then the next test had the Drunken Monkey Brewing Company, and we had to find out the mass flow rate of water needed to cool the wort to a certain temperature...
Anyway, I've dealt a lot with monkeys.
And I've met quite a few on Usenet. (g)