• StephniBefni@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This is true, there are two kinds of animal, monkey or ape. Because if it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, even if it’s a monkey kinda shape. If it doesn’t have a tail it’s not a monkey, if it doesn’t have a tail…it’s an ape!

    Or at least that’s what I learned from my parents force feeding me nothing but VeggieTales for far too long.

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      10 months ago

      Yup, that’s correct! Primates without tails are apes, and we’re a primate without a tail.

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        10 months ago

        Well what they applied the example to was a cow, citing that due to its tail out was a monkey of course lol. But yeah it does apply to primates for sure. Also a notable example is in Pokémon where you have mankey who evolves into primeape and loses their tail in the process. Of course this also kind of implies that apes are just angrier, stronger monkeys.

        Also completely unrelated to our conversation, but relevant to your username…Metriod is my absolute favorite gaming series, Metriod Prime is amazing, and I always wanted to be Samus when I grew up.

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          10 months ago

          Super Metroid is my jam, but I like the Prime series as well. Hopefully 4 will release someday!