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Dear BBC.

You've just assaulted my eardrums with some music—in a news report on Radio 4, a radio station which has as a selling point a lack of music.

In it, the reporter revealed, once again, a complete lack of basic understanding. Chimpanzees are APES, not MONKEYS. Please send your reporters on a refresher course. I'm sure this little guy is upset enough, you don't need to insult him as well.
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Date: 2009-Jun-26, Friday 00:17 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] miss_s_b
I love you. And the Librarian does too. I think we need a "Librarians Rule Ook" icon...
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Date: 2009-Jun-26, Friday 07:02 (UTC)
From: [personal profile] rho
Well. From a purely cladistic approach, all apes are monkeys, in the same sense that all birds are dinosaurs. Of course, I rather doubt that the reporter in question was a disgruntled cladist who was dissatisfied with the paraphyletic grade "monkey".
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Date: 2009-Jun-26, Friday 08:18 (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] innerbrat
This is why many zoologists refer to three distinct extant groups: 'apes', 'old world monkeys' and 'new world monkeys'. I guess you could say there's no such thing as a 'monkey', just as there's no such thing as an 'amphibian' or a 'reptile'.

OTOH, what you said about the reporter.
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Date: 2009-Jun-27, Saturday 01:48 (UTC)
From: [personal profile] zebrallama
+1
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Date: 2009-Jun-26, Friday 10:28 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] maddock-ist-rad.livejournal.com
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" was actually one of his B-sides, yah know :\

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