Donkey kong is not a donkey

[coolbho3000]

So then why is he called Donkey kong?

 

[Koumori_Knight]

Because in the first game he appeared in,he was supposed to be stubborn as a donkey, he was a gorilla so the name "kong" got stuck to him because of the movie king Kong.
Thusonkey Kong.

There, fixed!

You just got learned!

 

[Ringo619]

Shigeru Miyamoto, the character's creator, used the English word "donkey" to evoke the animal's stereotypical stubbornness. (There was no translation error; the game has the same name, "Donkii Kongu", in Japan.) "Kong" is because, in Japan, "King Kong" has become a generic term for any large ape.
Thus, Donkey Kong is a stubborn large ape.