Editing Chimpanzee (section)

===In culture===
[[File:Schimpansenmaske kaogle Liberia Museum Rietberg RAF 428.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Chimpanzee mask, [[Gio people|Gio tribe]], Liberia]]
Chimpanzees are rarely represented in [[African culture]], as people find them "too close for comfort". The [[Gio people]] of Liberia and the [[Hemba people]] of the Congo make chimpanzee masks. Gio masks are crude and blocky, and worn when teaching young people how not to behave. The Hemba masks have a smile that suggests drunken anger, insanity or horror and are worn during rituals at funerals, representing the "awful reality of death". The masks may also serve to guard households and protect both human and plant fertility. Stories have been told of chimpanzees kidnapping and raping women.<ref name="symbolism">{{cite book |first=H. B. |last=Werness |year=2007 |title=The Continuum Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |page=86 |isbn=978-0-8264-1913-2}}</ref>

In Western [[popular culture]], chimpanzees have occasionally been stereotyped as childlike companions, [[sidekick]]s or [[clowns]]. They are especially suited for the latter role on account of their prominent facial features, long limbs and fast movements, which humans often find amusing. Accordingly, entertainment acts featuring chimpanzees dressed up as humans with [[lip-sync]]hronised human voices have been traditional staples of [[circus]]es, [[stage show]]s and TV shows like ''[[Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp]]'' (1970–1972) and ''[[The Chimp Channel]]'' (1999).<ref name="Van Riper 19">{{Cite book |last=Van Riper |first=A. B. |title=Science in popular culture: a reference guide |url=https://archive.org/details/sciencepopularcu00ripe |url-access=limited |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]] |location=Westport |year=2002 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sciencepopularcu00ripe/page/n35 18]–19 |isbn=978-0-313-31822-1}}</ref> From 1926 until 1972, [[London Zoo]], followed by several other zoos around the world, held a [[chimpanzees' tea party]] daily, inspiring a long-running series of advertisements for [[PG Tips#Advertising|PG Tips]] tea featuring such a party.<ref>{{cite book |last=Warner |first=M. |author-link=Marina Warner |title=Monsters of our own making: the peculiar pleasures of fear |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=2007 |page=335 |isbn=978-0-8131-9174-4}}</ref><ref name="Heath 2014">{{cite web |last1=Heath |first1=Neil |title=PG Tips chimps: The last of the tea-advertising apes |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-23508215 |publisher=BBC |access-date=30 March 2019 |date=9 January 2014 |archive-date=30 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330183848/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-23508215 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Animal rights]] groups have urged a stop to such acts, considering them abusive.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nomoremonkeybusiness.com/ |title=Animal actors |publisher=Nomoremonkeybusiness.com |access-date=28 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303121336/http://www.nomoremonkeybusiness.com/ |archive-date=3 March 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
[[File:Aping Hollywood poster.jpg|thumb|upright|Poster for the 1931 film ''Aping Hollywood''. Media like this relied on the novelty of performing apes to carry their gags.<ref name="Van Riper 19"/>]]
Chimpanzees in media include Judy on the television series ''[[Daktari]]'' in the 1960s and Darwin on ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' in the 1990s. In contrast to the fictional depictions of other animals, such as dogs (as in ''[[Lassie]]''), dolphins (''[[Flipper (1964 TV series)|Flipper]]''), horses (''[[The Black Stallion]]'') or even other great apes (''[[King Kong]]''), chimpanzee characters and actions are rarely relevant to the plot. Depictions of chimpanzees as individuals rather than stock characters, and as central rather than incidental to the plot can be found in [[science fiction]]. [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s 1947 short story "[[Jerry Was a Man]]" concerns a [[biological uplift|genetically enhanced]] chimpanzee suing for better treatment. The 1972 film ''[[Conquest of the Planet of the Apes]]'', the third sequel of the 1968 film ''[[Planet of the Apes (1968 film)|Planet of the Apes]]'', portrays a futuristic revolt of enslaved apes led by the only talking chimpanzee, [[Caesar (Planet of the Apes)|Caesar]], against their human masters.<ref name="Van Riper 19"/>