</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (gaara &#064; Feb 17 2004, 12:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Sarutobi is the Hokage&#39;s nick name bakas, as in &#39;Monkey&#39;..because he looks like one, summons one, and even has the same voice as another character that is nick named Sarutobi, which would be the chief in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, actually the chief in all of the GITS is nick named Sarutobi too..He has the same hair cut as hokage without the hat lols, and has the same facial characteristics.. as in* OLD MAN SARUTOBI&#33; old monkey man, you&#39;ll understand later on silly people. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>

For a start your not japanese ... idiot (see not baka)

And he looks nothing like a monkey Kishimoto was actually going to make Sarutobi a fox and they kept the fox like features in his character designs. I read this on a website and when i get home from college i will did out the link and show you the original designs with him on the hokage mountain the character designs and the whole interview.