In the Popol Vuh, the half-brothers of Xbalanque and Hunapu are transformed into these creatures after getting stuck in a tree.
In Sudanese mythology, a son of the supreme deity Gurian Tunggal takes the form of a black one of these creatures to protect a princess. In the Popol Vuh, the half-brothers of Xbalanque and Hunapu are transformed into these creatures after getting stuck in a tree. One of these creatures always gains half the strength of his enemy in a fight and is supplanted as ruler of Kishkindha by his brother Sugriva. Another of these creatures tries to eat the sun and has his tail set on fire by Ravana. Another one of them knows the ways of seventy-two transformations and spitefully eats peaches of immortality; he is forced to repent by helping a monk obtain Buddhist scriptures in a Chinese epic.  FTP, identify these creatures, examples of which include Hanuman and Journey to the West's Sun Wukong.
In Sudanese mythology, a son of the supreme deity Gurian Tunggal takes the form of a black one of these creatures to protect a princess.
{monkey}s (or "apes," I guess)