“In a small Indian village, a pack of murderous monkeys have started a war with the local canines.
Around 250 dogs have been dragged to the tops of buildings and trees and dropped by a crew of raging primates that are apparently furious with the pups after they killed one of their babies, local media reported.”
Monkeys are not primates. I guess the Post doesn’t have editors?
“Monkeys and apes are both primates, which means they’re both part of the human family tree. ... Almost all monkeys have tails; apes do not.”
Primates are classified as the strepsirrhines (lit. ‘twisted-nostriled’) and the haplorhines (lit. ‘simple-noses’). Strepsirrhines include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, while haplorhines include the tarsiers and the simians (apes and monkeys). Simians (lit. ‘snub-noses’) can be further reduced to the platyrrhines (lit. ‘flat-noses’), or New World monkeys, and the catarrhines (lit. ‘narrow-noses’), which are Old World monkeys and apes (including humans). Forty million years ago, simians from Africa migrated to South America presumably by drifting on debris, which gave rise to the five families of New World monkeys. The remaining simians diverged into apes (Hominoidea) and Old World monkeys (Cercopithecoidea) approximately twenty-five million years ago. Common species that are simians include the (Old World) baboons, macaques, gibbons, and great apes; and the (New World) capuchins, howlers and squirrel monkeys.
Good points.