The thing that always bugged me about the Planet of the Apes movies.

[Hector]

Gorillas and orangutans are okay and mostly benevolent towards humans (wild Silverbacks mostly mock charges you)...chimpanzees on the other hand though...

[Werewolf]

Somehow I don't think the social commentary would have been as trenchant with skunks, racoons, and rodents.

I get I'm over thinking this but seriously people would not take apes as pets. They are HUGE and super dangerous. It absolutely makes no sense. Planet of the Apes dystopian future would never happen because people would just domesticate other small cute animals like foxes. Fennec fox 3.5 pounds and cute as heck or 130 pound chimpanzee that will rip your face and hands off. I know what I'd choose.

Again I know I am over thinking it. It's just how my mind works.

I'm not insulting the movies. They are good movies. They're classics. Great acting and make up. It's just something that has always kinda bugged me.

[PNGwynne]

Somehow I don't think the social commentary would have been as trenchant with skunks, racoons, and rodents.

[Werewolf]

Okay, the whole thing started because cats and dogs all died from a virus so people took in Chimpanzees, Gorillas and Orangutans as pets.

So, people took in animals that can weigh up to 450 pounds, 5 and a half feet tall, violent and strong enough to rip their heads off as a replacement for house cats and poodles. Instead of say like rabbits, hedgehogs, squirrels, foxes, skunks, ferrets, parrots, canaries, chinchillas, mice, hamsters, raccoons etc. You know domestic Skunks actually make pretty good pets. They are sweet and can be trained to use litter boxes. But they were like to hell with those cute small animals I want a huge damn super strong mountain gorilla in my house.