Heads Up! National Monkey Day 12/14/11

[frau kaleun]

[vienna]

YOU WEREN"T SUPPOSED TO SHOW THAT...IT'S "TOP SECRET"!!...

[Rockstar]

Lest we forget http://www.trunkmonkey.com/2006/11/1...an-auto-group/

TRUNK MONKEY

[frau kaleun]

Things that are still not monkeys: chimpanzees.

[vienna]

Oh my, Frau...any posts that aren't monkeys seem to make you go ape...

[Rockstar]

Plenty of people colloquially call chimps monkeys. so there neener neener

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Plenty of people colloquially call chimps monkeys.

And those people would be what we colloquially refer to as "wrong."

(Or as the Librarian might say, "OOK!")

[Rockstar]

Chimp or Monkey?

[vienna]

IIRC, apes (as are chimps) do not have tails, ergo chimp

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Chimp or Monkey?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious_George

In each of the books, Curious George is identified in the text as a monkey, though in the illustrations he does not correspond exactly to any non-fictional species of monkey (and has more of the characteristics of an ape, especially a chimpanzee, or a gorilla, for example in his lack of a tail - though it should be noted that some species of monkeys, such as the Barbary macaque, have little or no tail).

Since the books call him a monkey, and he has never been visually represented as any actual extant variety of either monkey or ape, I think we're gonna have to go with "monkey."