Hmm, yes, though I find chimps rather unsettling. They're extremely violent- not just violent, but sadistic, like humans can be. Gorillas, you have to be careful with as well, but not nearly as much as chimps so long as you follow most basic rules, you *should* be okay.
When my mother's father was stationed in Thailand (this would have been like 50+ years ago), they had a pet monkey. I don't remember what kind of monkey he was, though. Rhesus, maybe? What on earth they were doing with a pet monkey, I have no idea; my family is usually pretty good about animal rights (we have multiple animal rehab folk in the family), so maybe he couldn't be released or something. My mom's younger brother taught him to do backflips off of an elevated surface.
Monkeys in general are a very complex and diverse clade, so it's fine to feel different about individual species- heck, even individual members of individual species. I'm no fan of silverback gorillas, I hate to say. They are fascinating but terrifying, they frighten me more than sharks, gators, etc, but fortunately you are VERY unlikely to run into one and I think most people know what to do and not do around them. I think they just trigger an uncanny valley feeling in me on top of everything else.
On the other hand... there's this little guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG8kx5moTqg
And the littlest guy:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/p5uRpJpmTOA
ParanoidObsessive posted...
That low, huh?
What are you talking about? Cats are closer to the gods than us and they know it, lol. Well... some of them know it. XD