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(46,081 posts)Gorillas are not monkeys. I couldn't watch it.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Two totally different families.
kiri
(796 posts)Monkeys have tails; apes do not. Hence we are the hairless apes.
The speaker should have used "primate".
Quixote1818
(28,968 posts)Snip:
Nested hierarchies
Apes are monkeys in the same way that monkeys are primates, humans are apes and I am a human its called a nested hierarchy.
Snip: That said, I will add an important caveat monkey is a generic term and when referring to Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Gibbons, Orang-utans and Humans the more specific term of ape should be used for clarity. After all, you dont refer to your pet cat as a pet carnivore, or a budgie as a theropod, because generic terms omit a lot of additional information.
So although apes are monkeys, they are still apes and that means something.
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https://paoloviscardi.com/2011/04/21/apes-are-monkeys-deal-with-it/