What is the difference between Monkey and Ape
Mono and ape are two terms used in Spanish as synonyms, however, they are usually differentiated because for ape the term in English is ape, and defines those hominoid primates, that is, those closest to man and defines mono or monkey to those primates that have tails In Spanish the correct definition is hominoid for apes.
Bun
Monkey is a non-taxonomic term that defines a wide variety of primates. In zoology, monkeys are defined as those that comprise the platyrrhines or nomes of the New World and the cercopithecoids or monkeys of the Old World. Monkeys have tails, have primitive skeletons, and are small.
Ape
Apes or simiformes are an infraorder of haplorhine primates. According to zoology, they are those tailless primates closely related to men and that includes the New World apes and the Old World apes, which are divided into the superfamilies Cercopithecoidea, which are the Old World monkeys or apes with a tail and Hominoidea monkeys. or Old World tailless apes, a classification that includes humans).
Difference Between Monkey and Ape
- Both terms refer to primates and are currently often differentiated based on the English terms Ape which means ape and Mokey which means monkey. Although this difference is not accepted in some groups, it still appears in the RAE dictionary.
- Orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and gibbons are apes. They have no tail, walk more upright, use four legs, have a more developed brain, and a much longer seasonal period.
- Monkeys are much smaller, have tails, spend most of their lives in trees, use their limbs to climb, and may even have prehensile tails that act as a fifth limb to help them climb.