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# For myself and the rest of the B3ta pedantry club: monkeys are the ones with tails; chimps, gorillas, orang utans etc. are apes.
That is all.
(, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 23:40, archived)
# I probably should have just suggested "primates".
(, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 23:50, archived)
# Nah, it's going to be a good challenge, but there's going to be more tea-drinking chimps than you can shake a stick at!
(, Wed 25 Jan 2012, 23:52, archived)
# More pedantry alert....!

If you wanted just monkeys and apes, the word is "simians".

"Primates" includes lemurs, bushbabies and tarsiers.
(, Thu 26 Jan 2012, 20:04, archived)