Popeye

Popeye is an older monkey who has two sons, Sweet Pea and Olive(r)/Ollie. Sweet Pea is her youngest and takes up a lot of Popeyes time. She is an attentive and doting mother – almost to the point of being too doting. Popeye is one of the few mothers that tells Amari “no” when Amari tries to grab for Sweet Pea and gets away with it suffering no backlash from Amari. She spends most of her time with the males of the troop. She would originally hang around Donald often, but then when Brutus came into power she switched to spending most of her time near Brutus.

There has been a lot of confusion about the gender of Popeye’s juvenile. Since Jill, Amari’s daughter, is always seen hanging off of Popeye she was mistaken as her daughter. The gender of Popeye’s juvenile was discovered when a few individuals on Youtube went back to look at old videos of Popeye before Sweet Pea was born. They discovered that the juvenile that Popeye was nursing is male not female.

If you’d like to check for yourself here is the video of Popeye nursing her son Olive(r)/Ollie. I set it to start at the point where you’ll see Popeye with her son nursing and Jill sitting next to her.

Troop: Amari
Rank: Fairly High
Defining Characteristics:

  • Missing her Left Eye (Right if you are looking at her)
  • Fairly Large in size
  • Red Face and Red Butt
  • Both of her ears are intact – they are a dark gray color
  • Left Nipple is longer than her right
  • Left Nipple is purple at the tip and pink around her areola
  • Right Nipple is all pink and stubby
  • Her eye is Brown
  • She has White “C” shapes around her eyes
  • Her left ear lobe is torn.

16 thoughts on “Popeye

  1. Love the site Quimmbly!
    For those wondering how Popeye lost her left eye the story is several years ago she was stung in the eye by a giant Cambodian wasp. In close-ups you can see the eye is still present but has recessed into the socket. She has very little/no vision in that eye; I have witnessed many times a human or another monkey come around her left side & she becomes startled when they suddenly “appear” in front of her. The eye also weeps regularly & other troupe members clean it for her during grooming (particularly Amari.)

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    • Done With It – I’m happy to see you made it to the site! Welcome. 🙂

      Oh! Thanks for reminding me. It was on my “to do list” to add on that piece of information. I think I was waiting until Sochhun could confirm that was what happened. I think that not having an eye really does put her on edge a bit more than the other monkeys. I’ve been worried about her eye as it seems to have more discharge as of late. I’ve seen DeeDee clean her eye in a video as well. I wonder if it’s because she hasn’t been as close to Amari lately so her eye isn’t groom as regularly.

      Thanks again for the information! I appreciate it. 🙂

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    • How many children did popeye have i know it was olive sweet pea, polly, and polino…did i miss any? And is show pregnant again?

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      • She has a son older than Oliver. His name is Chimo and was one of the tormentors of the original Axel owned by Dr Dargo. Chimo became one of the minor kings and was taken along with Sweet Pea, Tarzana and about 16 others in the relocation of Dec 2020. Popeye’s original name was Cara and according to Sochun she lost her eye fighting dogs. Eventually fighting dogs and forest monkeys is how she died Jan 3, 2020.

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    • I have not read anything to support that claim. There are questionable reports from the local videographers that she went “missing” after “chasing Alexander troop into forest” or being “attacked by Skippy”. She was reportedly “found dead” the next day in the forest. I am following/researching behavior changes in the Amari troop influenced by the presence of videographers.

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  2. Popeye was shot. I was watching a video and the VO was filming and suddenly you hear gun fire, and Kari was with her, it wasn’t long after that that gunmen walked up and shot Skippy and another male out of a tree and they culled most of Amaris troop. it still hurts my heart after all these years. Of course they said they were relocating them but we all know that wasn’t true. And their moneymaker SP was supposedly taken to a zoo so he could be put on display. It’s just all so sad. Lori was my favorite. Timo was adorable. I gotta get off here cause it makes me so sad.

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