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Well, technically apes don't have tails, monkeys do, so the chimpanzee talk would be an ape talk. Learned that from her too

• onraglanroad 1y ago
  In the same sense that "there's no such thing as a tree" or "there's no such thing as a fish", there's"no such thing as a monkey".
  • IAmBroom 1y ago
    ... unless you include apes.
  • AlotOfReading 1y ago
    Monkeys are just the simiiformes minus the apes. That's just a paraphyly, which is totally fine. If you don't like paraphyletic labels for aesthetic reasons, just include the apes to make it monophyletic. The main reason we don't is that many people have strong, visceral reactions to being called a monkey. You can't do that to fish or trees without including a bunch of things that are obviously not trees and fish.
• pinkmuffinere 1y ago
  "If it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey, even if it has a monkey-kind-of shape. It if doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey; if it doesn't have a tail it's not a monkey: it's an ape."
  • technothrasher 1y ago
    With the one exception being Curious George.
    • type0 1y ago
      Yeah but his tail was amputated, my neighbour had a cat without tail, bitten off by a dog or something, it's not that uncommon.
    • pinkmuffinere 1y ago
      Perhaps the 'curiousness' of George was not his personality trait, but rather the curious affliction of his missing tail.