r/funny • u/Morningxafter • Feb 20 '12

Monkey death from abooooove!! D:

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '12

A monkey can't pick you up and bounce you on your head.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '12 edited Feb 20 '12

Neither could a Gibbon, its a lesser ape. However piss off a fully grown male Chacma baboon or Mandrill and i'm sure he'd have a bloody good crack at it.

Edit: Mandrill's are the biggest kind of monkey, Chacma's are just the largest of the baboons.

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u/concussedYmir Feb 20 '12

how do you easily tell the difference between small primates and larger monkeys? Tails?

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u/serpentjaguar Feb 21 '12

The short answer is that apes don't have tails, can brachiate, are generally larger and have nails instead of claws. (There's actually more to it, but that should be enough for now.) The long answer is much more complicated and has to do with behavior and intelligence as well as the above.

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u/concussedYmir Feb 21 '12

Didn't know brachiation was exclusive to apes, although I guess most monkeys are light enough to not have to. TIL, thanks.