What animals do you dislike for unusual reasons and why?

Cloudless ☼@lemmy.cafe · 7 months ago

What animals do you dislike for unusual reasons and why?

wanderer@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

Monkeys and apes

That’s redundant. Apes are monkeys. There has been a shift in how life is classified, and for the same reason that birds are now considered to be dinosaurs, apes are now considered to be monkeys.

Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes. Thus monkeys, in that sense, constitute an incomplete paraphyletic grouping; however, in the broader sense based on cladistics, apes (Hominoidea) are also included, making the terms monkeys and simians synonyms in regard to their scope.

Cloudless ☼@lemmy.cafe · 6 months ago

In the broader sense, humans are in the Simians group too.

While both monkeys and apes are primates in the suborder Haplorhini and infraorder Simiiformes, they split into two different parvorders:

Catarrhini contains apes (hominoids) and Old World monkeys (cercopithecoids). Platyrrhini contains New World monkeys