Is the famous ape an ancestor of Curious George? I mean, this is very Curious George-y behavior. Crawl into a basket to see what’s in there? Try it out?
I mean, it’s a sad conclusion –
But Curious George’s grandfather or great great grandfather or something might have had his baby monkeys and then had a fall.
There does seem to be a literary, if not biological ancestry here.
The Hamlet Project 