The image is iconic: a cheerful monkey peeling a bright yellow banana. It's a staple of cartoons, storybooks, and even our collective imagination. But this popular trope is more fiction than fact, and ...

I'm not sure where the myth that monkeys eat bananas started — I personally suspect Curious George — but it's time for it to stop. Wild monkeys don't eat them. "The entire wild monkey-banana ...

The zoo says the high calorie and sugar content of bananas grown for human consumption – which are sweeter than those found in the wild – are bad for the monkeys’ health and can rot their teeth.