It is interesting to that macaca is the genus name for a group of monkies and that the wikipedia entry was started on the 17th by a biology student in Australia.
Allen's mothger is a Sephardic Jew?
His mother is the former Henrietta Lumbroso, a Sephardic Jew born in Tunisia to an Italian Sephardic family who apparently emigrated to the US via France in 1940 or threabouts (at the time of her birth she was technically a French citizen, since Britain had allowed France to make Tunisia a French protectorate in 1881 in exchange for France agreeing to Cyprus being a British protectorate).