By trying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree
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Finding food, eating it, drinking booze and eating sweets. Various entertainments that don't interfere with the above
Dread Zeppelin , The Fall, Captain Beefheart, Red Elvises, Lee Scratch Perry, Howie B, Wobbly. El-P, Mike Ladd, Dalek. The White Stripes, Muse, The Polyphonic Spree, The Delgados, Berlin. I could go on.......
Jungle Book, Tarzan, George of the Jungle, Every Which Way But Loose(right turn, Clyde). City of God. Bubba Hotep. The works of Kurosawa, Pasolini, Besson, and lots of others. Anchorman, Old School, The Ladies Man, Kicking and Screaming, The Wedding Crashers, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Dodgeball.
Try to leave it alone. Food you can't reach
Ones I can itch and scratch. Soft pages for ablutions, or other wipings. Also, anything by Ben Okri. Vernon God Little, Life of Pi, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The Idiot, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Ones with bright pictures
King Louie of the Apes, Monkey. That chimp in Tim Burton's (lame) Planet of the Apes, who started it all