It’s a new phrase I invented for when at the end of a novel a monkey pops out of the jungle to wipe leaves and spit on the fatal wound of the hero, thereby (somehow) saving him, before hopping back into the forest, never to be heard from again.

No, I’m not making this up. I just read a novel that ended like that. Now I’m wondering if there are multiple novels that this concept can be applied to or if this is a one shot thing. Have you ever found another example of deus ex monkeyna? And can we still call it deus ex monkeyna if it was, say, a panda bear or a horse that did the saving?