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All those references to monkeys hurt my head. Bonobos are not monkeys. If they wanted to name it after monkeys, they should've called it Capuchin or something.

by rkda 9y ago

rdorgueil 9y ago
Noted, sorry for that. I'll get more infos about bonobos.
- nn3 9y ago
  The picture looks more like a Gorilla than a Bonobo too
  - rdorgueil 9y ago
    Currently realizing that we only have one word in french for both ape and monkeys ...
    - rkda 9y ago
      Oh... now it makes more sense. Didn't mean to sound harsh. Thanks for sharing your framework! :)
      - rdorgueil 9y ago
        It didn't sound harsh at all. I'm really laughing a lot right now about how ignorant I am about apes and monkeys. ^^
  - e5an 9y ago
    Came here to post just that. It's called 'Bonobo', there's a picture of a gorilla, and the page keeps saying 'monkey'- as petty as it sounds, you're probably losing potential users to zoological nerdrage.
    - rdorgueil 9y ago
      Yes, hackernews and twitter brutally told me I should take animal reign culture classes asap ... This being said, if any of you have a good picture of bonobos that I can use instead of the current one, I'd be really glad to replace it! It needs to be released under a free license, though. Thanks HN
  - init 9y ago
    I came here to say that! The bonobo is an an indigenous ape of the left bank of the Congo river in the Congo rain forest in the DR Congo. They look indistinguishable to chimpanzees to the untrained eye. Gorillas are a whole different species and you have at least 4 subspecies of gorillas, none of which look like chimps or bonobos.
    - jimnotgym 9y ago
      They have some behavioral features that tell them apart from a chimpanzee. Apparently they use sex as a greeting. It is (sort of) anthropomorphized in a hilarious way in the Will Self novel 'Great Apes'. However that may be colouring my memory of how common this is in the real creatures...
oliwarner 9y ago
Monkey just isn't a good term to fight over. There are plenty of respectable people arguing that monkey means simian, not just non-hominoid simian (as you take from it). Either which way, fighting over where the taxonomical set ends is likely a waste of breath. But yeah, a CGI gorilla for a site called bonobo. Le sigh.

All those references to monkeys hurt my head. Bonobos are not monkeys. If they wanted to name it after monkeys, they should've called it Capuchin or something.

by rkda 9y ago

All those references to monkeys hurt my head. Bonobos are not monkeys. If they wanted to name it after monkeys, they should've called it Capuchin or something.

rdorgueil 9y ago

Noted, sorry for that. I'll get more infos about bonobos.

nn3 9y ago
The picture looks more like a Gorilla than a Bonobo too
- rdorgueil 9y ago
  Currently realizing that we only have one word in french for both ape and monkeys ...
  - rkda 9y ago
    Oh... now it makes more sense. Didn't mean to sound harsh. Thanks for sharing your framework! :)
    - rdorgueil 9y ago
      It didn't sound harsh at all. I'm really laughing a lot right now about how ignorant I am about apes and monkeys. ^^
- e5an 9y ago
  Came here to post just that. It's called 'Bonobo', there's a picture of a gorilla, and the page keeps saying 'monkey'- as petty as it sounds, you're probably losing potential users to zoological nerdrage.
  - rdorgueil 9y ago
    Yes, hackernews and twitter brutally told me I should take animal reign culture classes asap ... This being said, if any of you have a good picture of bonobos that I can use instead of the current one, I'd be really glad to replace it! It needs to be released under a free license, though. Thanks HN
- init 9y ago
  I came here to say that! The bonobo is an an indigenous ape of the left bank of the Congo river in the Congo rain forest in the DR Congo. They look indistinguishable to chimpanzees to the untrained eye. Gorillas are a whole different species and you have at least 4 subspecies of gorillas, none of which look like chimps or bonobos.
  - jimnotgym 9y ago
    They have some behavioral features that tell them apart from a chimpanzee. Apparently they use sex as a greeting. It is (sort of) anthropomorphized in a hilarious way in the Will Self novel 'Great Apes'. However that may be colouring my memory of how common this is in the real creatures...

oliwarner 9y ago

Monkey just isn't a good term to fight over. There are plenty of respectable people arguing that monkey means simian, not just non-hominoid simian (as you take from it). Either which way, fighting over where the taxonomical set ends is likely a waste of breath. But yeah, a CGI gorilla for a site called bonobo. Le sigh.