Monkey Guard

Monkey Guards are level 167 gorillas that live in Ape Atoll's temple.

Biography
Monkey Guards live in on the ground floor and second floor of Ape Atoll's temple. They have a large amount of health and throw vicious punches that can hit up to 18. When they have very low health, they will beat their chest, causing them to heal 25 hitpoints which is about 20% of their hitpoints. They are also immune to magic.

There are two kinds of Monkey Guards: the ones with a beard and the ones without a beard. While both Monkey Guards have the same stats, you cannot run through the Monkey Guards with beards, causing them to be a nuisance when they are blocking the ladder to the second floor or the altar.

Benefits
Because the Monkey Guards heal themselves and because there is an altar in the temple, many players train combat of all forms on them by fighting them with Protect from Melee on the whole time. When they are low on Prayer, they pray at the altar and continue their training. Players can also use stat-boosting prayers such as Piety to aid training.

Other information

 * Level 1 Spiders also live in the temple and can poison for up to 4 damage. It is recommended players bring about four antipoisons along with them on the island to prevent being poisoned. A Holy symbol with Prayer book is highly recommended instead if you've done The Great Brain Robbery quest because of free heals and an infinite source of prayer nearby.
 * Monkey Guards drop larger versions of monkey bones, which give 18 prayer experience points when buried. However, these are not tradable.
 * If you kill a Monkey Guard, you can bring its bones, along with a Monkey Talisman, to Zooknock to create a gorilla greegree. This greegree will allow you to run around on Ape Atoll as a Monkey Guard. If you bring the bones of a bearded Monkey Guard to Zooknock, you will have a greegree that will transform you into a Monkey Guard with a beard. If you bring the bones of a Monkey Guard without a beard to Zooknock, you will have a greegree that will transform you into a Monkey Guard without a beard.
 * A combat training method using Monkey Guards that has become increasingly popular is equipping a Dharok's set when health is lowered, and proceeding to use protect from melee to deal extremely high hits with no chance of dying. This method has become popular due to the altar nearby that will recharge Prayer points.