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Kathy Dettwyler <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:56:02 -0500
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>I was reading "Curious George" to my 2 y/o yesterday when I noticed he has
>no tail. So then George isn't a monkey he is an ape, correct?

Correct, Dr. Rob.  Curious George is a chimpanzee, which is a type of ape
(other types of apes include the Lesser Apes, which include gibbons and
siamangs from Asia (who do brachiate), and the Asian Great Ape, the
orangutan, and the African Great Apes which include gorillas, chimpanzees,
bonobos, and humans of course).
Most monkeys have long tails.  Some of the ones who live in Central and
South America have prehensile (grasping) tails.  No African or Asian monkeys
have prehensile tails.  Only one kind of monkey has such a short tail that
it looks like an ape -- that would be the misnamed "Barbary Ape" of the rock
of Gibraltar.

Children's books often are misinformed about monkeys versus apes.  Sigh.  Of
course, they also teach that Columbus discovered America in 1492 and that
the pilgrims were the first Europeans to live in the New World, and that
they had turkey and stuffey and cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie for
Thanksgiving with their Indian "friends."  And they also often teach that
all mammals except humans are fed by their mother's mammary glands, but
human babies are fed with bottles.  Had to make it relate to breastfeeding,
somehow.

Kathy Dettwyler

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