Gibbons are what they call “lesser apes” which is frankly offensive because they’re pretty great, too. But there is a species of macaque, which are unambiguously considered monkeys by most modern people, that also has no tail. In fact, it used to sometimes be called the Barbary ape.
Hm..I looked it up and your little friends do in fact have tails, they are just nubs to the point of being vestigial. But I can appreciate your larger point that in the colloquial understanding, we’re all just monkeys trying our best.
Gibbons are what they call “lesser apes” which is frankly offensive because they’re pretty great, too. But there is a species of macaque, which are unambiguously considered monkeys by most modern people, that also has no tail. In fact, it used to sometimes be called the Barbary ape.
Hm..I looked it up and your little friends do in fact have tails, they are just nubs to the point of being vestigial. But I can appreciate your larger point that in the colloquial understanding, we’re all just monkeys trying our best.