Monkey

Monkey
Animal
Introduced in	Age of Mythology
Hit points	45
Population	1
Hack attack	5
Hack armor	34%
Pierce armor	20%
Speed	3.30
Maximum food	100
Recommended no. of gatherers	1

The Monkey is a wild animal in Age of Mythology that can be hunted for food. It does not provide much food, but it also does not fight back, and it is a faster food source than farming or berry gathering. It is available on Egyptian maps. It has the exact same stats as the Baboon.

The Monkey Head Relic provides the player with three Relic Monkeys that will fight for them and respawn after being killed.

History

“	Scientific name -- Cercopithecus aethiops Size -- 6-17 lbs. Diet -- fruit, flowers, leaves, seeds Few monkeys lived near the Nile, but some were imported from deserts in North Africa. Vervet monkeys live throughout Africa, but prefer drier environments such as savannahs to actual rain forests, but rarely stray far from a source of water or from trees. Vervets are diurnal and gregarious. Rank order within a family is maintained by threat displays, such as eyelid gestures. Wealthy Egyptians kept vervets or tail-less Barbary macaques as pets. Some were even mummified and buried. Age of Mythology monkeys have an unprecedented affinity for building rafts and starting fires.	”
—In-game help section

Trivia

• The history section hints that they are vervet monkeys, but in reality they are grivets, a species native to the Horn of Africa and the southern parts of the Nile.
• Monkeys are a reoccurring Easter egg in Age of Mythology.
  • Lead designer Bruce Shelley at AGDC 2001 said that they added Monkeys due to how similar they are to game developers.
  • Their "affinity for building rafts" in their history file is a comical reference to the Monkey Raft.
  • Monkeys appear in some levels in the campaign, one notably appears on the small island in Omens.
  • Using the cheat code I WANT TEH MONKEYS!!!1! will spawn 100 Monkeys at the player's Town Center.