[gomaaa]

Thats like asking why doesnt a dog climb like a bear....or why dosen't mice build dams like beavers do.

You are in serious need of a spell checker... and a grammar checker.

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But not a fact checker! We share certain characteristics with other apes. No tail, omnivorous diet, opposable thumbs...

That doesn't mean that we need to rework the legal code to give orang-utans the right to have library cards, its just a classification system.

[The_Victor]

That doesn't mean that we need to rework the legal code to give orang-utans the right to have library cards, its just a classification system.

At one time science (perhaps a long time ago?) defined man as the animal species that uses tools. And further defined tools as any object taken from nature and altered to suit a specific purpose. That is until it was discovered that chimpanzees take green twigs, strip the leave off, and insert them into termite mounds to catch termites as food. The comment that I recall reading was that, "we either need to redefine man, redefine tool, or accept chimpanzees as man."

[metmom]

But not a fact checker! We share certain characteristics with other apes. No tail, omnivorous diet, opposable thumbs...

Cats and dogs share an awful lot of characterists with each other but you couldn't call a cat a dog or vice versa. Just because there are similarities between man and humans, doesn't follow that men are apes.