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Ape or Monkey?
Saturday, December 8th, 2007 | Science |
Last night at dinner someone noted something that had totally escaped me. If it looks like a monkey/gorilla/ape and it has a tail, it’s a monkey. If it looks like a monkey/gorilla/ape and it doesn’t have a tail, it’s an ape (and that includes orangutans).
Wikipedia notes some edge cases like the Barbary Ape that isn’t a true ape, but the general rule seems pretty good: all monkeys have tails, though some tailless uh, dudes, aren’t necessarily apes.
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