No I’m a primate it’s totally different
Comment on English has too many words for animals
regdog@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you don’t know the difference between turtle and tortoise then you are a monkey
renzev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
I’m perfectly fine with that in my native language.
qualia@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
I was just trying to set up a monkey/ape joke