YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHAT THIS GORILLA SAYS!

[Quixote1818]

[wryter2000]

1. For crying out loud

Gorillas are not monkeys. I couldn't watch it.

[geardaddy]

4. Bingo.

Two totally different families.

[kiri]

5. agreed, apes are not monkeys; dreadful error

Monkeys have tails; apes do not. Hence we are the hairless apes.

The speaker should have used "primate".

[Quixote1818]

6. This person disagrees with you

Snip:

Nested hierarchies
Apes are monkeys in the same way that monkeys are primates, humans are apes and I am a human – it’s called a nested hierarchy.

Snip: That said, I will add an important caveat – monkey is a generic term and when referring to Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Gibbons, Orang-utans and Humans the more specific term of ape should be used for clarity. After all, you don’t refer to your pet cat as a pet carnivore, or a budgie as a theropod, because generic terms omit a lot of additional information.

So although apes are monkeys, they are still apes – and that means something.

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https://paoloviscardi.com/2011/04/21/apes-are-monkeys-deal-with-it/

[tomhagen]

2. Why one day; an Ape or an Orange Orangutan might even become President

[pazzyanne]

3. Sadly, Koko passed away just a few days ago. RIP Koko.