About monkey houses ... imo the key feature that distinguishes the human animal from the others is a capacity for Story. It underlies our technology.
Monkeys can be taught by external alien god sorts (the naked pink things with dreadful fashion sense) to use sign language, okay. But how many wild monkeys (apes, technically) use language, sign or otherwise, to share concepts with any abstact content? As near as we can tell - none. Mind you, it's possible that there is a simian secret society, a surreptitious ape-clan, pithecine Illuminati whispering about Goldman Sachs and Haarp and deep lethal Trojans in every computer OS sold since 1988 ... waiting for the signal in fourteen months ...
uh, is that pizza?? cn