I have read the books and now about monkeys.

If monkey boxing involves so much tumbling techniques that the average person cannot do then it isnt a good system and maybe they should leave it to the monkeys.

If you watch monkeys fight on discovery, national geo the biggest part of it is posturing with no tumbling involved after that they just beat and bite the crap out of each other.

The insect praying Mantis resembles very little what the humans do in fighting but it is called mantis. Realistically your not going to learn much from fighting by watching a bug. I think they are just names....thats it.

I think it all falls apart when people try to mimic the animal or insect. About 25 years ago I saw a form called "wounded Tiger" it was the funniest thing I had ever seen...guy was actually laying on his back acting like a wounded tiger...my sifu just laghed and said they should call it "tiger stuck in Tar pit"...thats what it looked like.