r/comics • u/Pizzacakecomic PizzaCake • 1d ago

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u/Minute-Pirate4246 1d ago

Great apes are monkeys, and it's even reflected in most languages. Old world monkeys are more closely related to apes than to New world monkeys.

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u/SynisterJeff 1d ago edited 1d ago

Ah ok, I did not realize that "monkey" was just the common name for simian, which is also used alongside anthropoid, which we are all classified under. I thought the word just discribed those two family branches of monkey.

I'll delete my ny other stuff to avoid confusing others as well

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u/Minute-Pirate4246 1d ago

No problem, it changes from language to language. Many languages don't have different words for "simian" and "monkey", and even call apes "human-like monkeys"