<i><b>A Report to an Academy</b></i>&nbsp;(German: <i>Ein Bericht f&uuml;r eine Akademie</i>) is a&nbsp;short story&nbsp;by&nbsp;Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to an academy the story of how he effected his transformation. The story was first published by&nbsp;Martin Buber&nbsp;in the German monthly&nbsp;<i>Der Jude</i>, along with another of Kafka&#39;s stories, <i>Jackals and Arabs</i>&nbsp;(<i>Schakale und Araber</i>). The story appeared again in a 1919 collection titled&nbsp;<i>Ein Landarzt</i>&nbsp;(<i>A Country Doctor</i>).