Thanks for the kind words!
The Dinosaur and monkey currently just stop running and the scoreboard shows (with a message of what caused the failstate - either losing all bananas and hitting an obstacle, Sonic Style, or Dinosaur catching up to the player) - I’d love an animation in which he licks the monkey or boosts him on to his back, but animation certainly isn’t my strong suit!
In an older build the Dinosaur’s tongue was fully physics based and flopped around like a dog’s. There are plans to bring this back but currently there is a known bug stopping this.
Don’t worry about Monkey, haha - they’re very good friends and in fact, share a cave together where they store all those bananas.