No I’m a primate it’s totally different
Comment on English has too many words for animals
regdog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If you don’t know the difference between turtle and tortoise then you are a monkey
renzev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
I’m perfectly fine with that in my native language.
qualia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Apes evolved from dry-nosed monkeys, so despite the popular wisdom, according to monophyly we are monkeys. Similarly humans are fish. The confusion arises because most people still group species by common characteristics (a grade) rather than common descent (a clade). Also known as Linnean vs phylogenetics.
regdog@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was just trying to set up a monkey/ape joke