supermonkey

plural supermonkeys

1. A monkey with remarkable abilities.

   Sure, we'll need some robots, but we should not overlook developing a race of genetically enhanced supermonkeys as well.

   2008, Charles Marshall, I'm Not Crazy, But I Might Be a Carrier

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   But a supermonkey isn't the same as an 'almost man.' They belong to a different niche of existence. There isn't a simple ladder with monkeys down there and us up here.

   1981, Terry Carr, Universe 11

   Its busy little brain must and will be kept going on whatever is handy. And in this respect, as in many others, man is a supermonkey.

   1984, Isaac Asimov, Asimov's new guide to science

   Maverick scientist Leo Davidson (Mark Wahlberg) leaves his research vessel to bring back a wayward, genetically altered supermonkey who has escaped in a shuttle.

   2007, Mark Roncace, Patrick Gray, Teaching the Bible through popular culture and the arts