No I’m a primate it’s totally different
Comment on English has too many words for animals
regdog@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you don’t know the difference between turtle and tortoise then you are a monkey
renzev@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
I’m perfectly fine with that in my native language.
qualia@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
I was just trying to set up a monkey/ape joke