“Not all who howling monkeys beneath the moon do so on four legs.”
The Weremonkey/Wereape or Were-Monkey/Were-Ape (were-monkey, were-ape (plural: Weremonkeys/Wereapes or Were-Monkeys/Were-Apes (were-monkeys, were-apes))), or Monkeyman/Apeman (also spelled Monkey-Man/Ape-Man or Monkey Man/Ape Man), also called the Simianthropy (plural: Simianthropies), Simianthrope (plural: Simianthropes), Simianthropic (plural: Simianthropics), or simply Simian (plural: Simians) is a mammalianthropic individual who can shape-shift into a monkey or an ape; or especially in modern days, a primate therianthropic hybrid monkey/human or ape/human being, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction, often a bite or the occasional scratch from another weremonkey or wereape, with the transformations occurring on the night of a full moon.
- Simianthropy comes from the Latin root words simia meaning "snub-nosed", and anthropos in Greek meaning "human" and refers to human/primate transformations, or to other beings that combine ape/monkey and human characteristics. So the term translates to ‘ape person’ or even ‘monkey human (man/woman)’.
Simianthropy transformation refers to the mythical or fictional process by which a human transforms into a monkey/ape or a monkey-human or ape-human hybrid, but simianthropy can involve transformation into any kind of monkeys and apes, such as orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, spider monkeys, macaques, etc. Depicting all humans in monkey or ape form, known as the Simiomorphism (singular: Simiomorphist) or Simianism (singular: Simianist).
- Simianthropism (singular: Simianthropist) is a therianthropic representation of deities in combined human and primate form.
- Simiotype (plural: Simiotypes) is a mammalianthropic animal that is from primate identifies as (From simio- + type).
other words based of simianthropes are:
- The Monkeyanthrope (plural: Monkeyanthropes), also known as the Monkeyanthropy (plural: Monkeyanthropies), Monkeyanthropic (plural: Monkeyanthropics), or simply Monkeyan (plural: Monkeyans).
- The Apekin (plural: Apekins).
- Wereorangutan, Were-Orangutan, Weregorilla, Were-Gorilla, Werechimpanzee, Were-Chimpanzee, Werebonobo, Were-Bonobo, Weremacaque, Were-Macaque, Werebaboon, Were-Baboon, spider Weremonkey, spider Were-Monkey.
