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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 5, 2016 13:22:54 GMT -5
Mandrills are even more metal; I first thought they might be apes, but they're monkeys, too. And so are geladas, which are some real mean ass lookin fellas monkeys r scary
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Post by BSam on Sept 7, 2016 3:25:33 GMT -5
i don't care what you say
the greatest monkey is man
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Monkeys
Sept 7, 2016 10:48:35 GMT -5
Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Sept 7, 2016 10:48:35 GMT -5
I think in German there are no different words for apes and monkeys too. Or at least that would be a really good excuse for me to not know the difference.
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Monkeys
Sept 7, 2016 11:00:14 GMT -5
Post by Reba on Sept 7, 2016 11:00:14 GMT -5
monkeys: have tails and cannot swing from trees
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Post by Hermes on Sept 7, 2016 11:52:46 GMT -5
I have tried typing 'I am an ape' and 'I am a monkey' into Google Translate for a number of European languages, and come to the conclusion that the distinction between apes and monkeys may be a specifically English thing.
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Monkeys
Sept 7, 2016 12:05:26 GMT -5
Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on Sept 7, 2016 12:05:26 GMT -5
What if they have tails but can swing from trees?
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Post by Reba on Sept 7, 2016 12:10:52 GMT -5
there are no monkeys that can actually swing from trees, because they don't have the biological structure that apes do. there are some monkeys that fake-swing, but it's mostly just jumping.
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Post by M on Sept 9, 2016 8:45:22 GMT -5
I have tried typing 'I am an ape' and 'I am a monkey' into Google Translate for a number of European languages, and come to the conclusion that the distinction between apes and monkeys may be a specifically English thing. Maybe in everyday culture, but it's really a scientific / phylogenetic difference. As for me? Capuchins...duh
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Monkeys
Sept 9, 2016 10:20:21 GMT -5
Post by Hermes on Sept 9, 2016 10:20:21 GMT -5
I have tried typing 'I am an ape' and 'I am a monkey' into Google Translate for a number of European languages, and come to the conclusion that the distinction between apes and monkeys may be a specifically English thing. Maybe in everyday culture, but it's really a scientific / phylogenetic difference. Well, yes; obviously there's a scientific distinction, for which there would be Latin names (though are all monkeys the same group from that point of view?). But not one important enough to mark in one's own language, it seems, for most Europeans. (I dare say it's different in areas where a lot of these animals live.)
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 9, 2016 12:32:48 GMT -5
it's funny how Capuchin is a type of monk and monkey
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Monkeys
Sept 10, 2016 10:11:11 GMT -5
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Post by Charlie on Sept 10, 2016 10:11:11 GMT -5
YO WE JUST LEARNT ABOUT THE DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN APES AND MONKEYS IN LECTURES!!
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Monkeys
Sept 12, 2016 18:29:30 GMT -5
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Post by M on Sept 12, 2016 18:29:30 GMT -5
Maybe in everyday culture, but it's really a scientific / phylogenetic difference. Well, yes; obviously there's a scientific distinction, for which there would be Latin names (though are all monkeys the same group from that point of view?). But not one important enough to mark in one's own language, it seems, for most Europeans. (I dare say it's different in areas where a lot of these animals live.) To be fair, most people don't use the two terms correctly. Plenty of people will call chimps monkeys... It's just pedantic sciencey people who really care
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Sept 15, 2016 0:02:00 GMT -5
I think one of the forum's swear filters changes a word to monkey? magee magikarp monkey < there it is, it's the word that starts with w
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Post by BSam on Sept 15, 2016 1:24:07 GMT -5
wanker?
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Post by BSam on Sept 15, 2016 1:24:23 GMT -5
monkey?
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