" However, simians and humans were immune to the plague.The practice of having apes replace pets began with "humans wanting little household pets to replace the ones they had lost.BackgroundThe King and I(1956) is the popular and elaborate musical and story of the tutoring of the stubborn, King of Siam""s wives and children by widowed English school teacher Anna Leonowens in 1862.She also advised Babe to steer clear of them:"...them wolves.Treat you like dirt, they do! Bite you as soon as look at you, those savages!...Some wolves be so bad, they run a sheep down and tear it to pieces....All hem wolves is cruel to sheep.Always have been.Brutal savages! That""s what they be.I wouldn""t want to see a gentle soul like you mixin"" with the likes of them."After his first momentous day at the farm, Babe was overwhelmed and confused by everything he had learned, as the Narrator summarized (in voice-over):"That afternoon when he saw Fly, the pig""s mind was a tangle of questions.You""ve got a right to that.He claims that the "minute" he saw her, he had figured out all that he had just told her, and then compliments her: "Because you may be the best damn girl in Texas.In close-up, she looked down at her hands - and saw developing blisters.The contrast (of gender identification) with nearby Cora was unmistakable.The unsympathetic, manly rancher""s wife, wearing a butcher""s apron, couldn""t be bothered as she was slicing open and gutting the innards of a dead steer hanging in the living room from the ceiling.