Do Monkeys and Apes Eat Bananas in the Wild?

No.

It's Hollywood's generalisation 🤷‍♂️

Like us, monkeys and apes are omnivores. Now why is an omnivore only interested in one type of fruit... banana 🍌? 🤔 Why indeed...

But if offered one, certainly, don't mind if I do!

Banana is not naturally their diet in the wild because:

Banana plantations are human territories.
Wild banana plants clusters are not monkeys' or apes' main habitats — and the wild banana fruits are not tasty like the human-designed monocultures. Hence, humans designed the monocultures to produce the tasty banana fruits. This should loop back to point 1.

The monocot plant itself is not even something they would climb and settle, as in sit or come to rest in a comfortable position.

Imagine...

🐒 What's this? A bit of vertical challenge, eh? (Proceeds to climb a banana plant in under one second) 🐒 Ah, quite marvelous here. Nature's cushion at its finest. The view... It's all obstructed. Mm, splendid. Why is it leaning? Where's the manager? (Crrrreeeaaakkk—SLUMP 🍌🌿💥) 🥴 Manager!

I suppose it was started by some bloke gave one of them a banana, and Oooh, it can peel! Amusing information was spread around ➡️ meme got to Hollywood people sometime back then ➡️ tirelessly being used in cartoons, comics, and films ➡️ the concept was copied-pasted around the world ➡️ now.

Imagine if...

... one of us were in a display cage and offered a mathematical problem about an imaginary plane which existed only in the bum of a nonexistent centipede-zebra gladiator. While one talkative baboon shouted, "The gravitonic oscillator interfered with the plasma harmoniser, causing a phase inversion in the neuro-static relay core, which in turn compromised the polarity of the subatomic fog lattice!"
Rebuttal-Agent Beast™

Meaning what, exactly, Mister Baboon? I've already got this existentially awkward offered problem on an invisible paper. Not to mention this incovenient revealing attire they put on me. I'm afraid I won't process your jargons right now, sir. My thigh is gyrating in German.

All in all, imaginations above serve well for the glorified vagueness, "Imagination is more important than knowledge".

The "footnote" of that is purposely untold because, well...

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