Called? I could call Gill an ape, but he is not an ape.
From wikipedia:
Aside from humans (genus Homo), the macaques are the most widespread primate genus, ranging from Japan to Afghanistan and, in the case of the Barbary Macaque, to North Africa. Twenty-two macaque species are currently recognised, and they include some of the monkeys best known to non-zoologists, such as the Rhesus Macaque, Macaca mulatta, and the Barbary Macaque, M. sylvanus, a colony of which lives on the Rock of Gibraltar. Although several species lack tails, and their common names therefore refer to them as apes, these are true monkeys, with no greater relationship to the true apes than any other Old World monkeys.
Jul 22, 2010 08:09:11 AM, trog...@cavechat.org wrote:
Tailless monkeys are called "apes".--------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
On 22 July 2010 07:36, Gill Edigar <gi...@att.net> wrote:
And what makes anybody think this beast came
from Africa? Did it have a tail? Old World monkey are tailless; New
World monkeys have tails. Are they even related to each other?
--Ediger
