KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -Gorillas, unlike monkeys, do not have tails.

Detailed explanation-2: -The evolution of primate species are divided into hominoids-a group of tail-less primate species that includes gorillas, chimpanzees, and humans-and nonhominoids, which have tails and are more distant primate relatives of humans.

Detailed explanation-3: -Most birds, mammals, reptiles, and even fish have tails. But humans and other apes don’t, even though our close primate relatives do.

Detailed explanation-4: -Barbary macaques are unique in that they lack a tail. For this reason we often hear them referred to as Barbary “apes, ‘’ even though they really are monkeys. (True apes include gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, gibbons, and humans.

Detailed explanation-5: -Myth: Chimpanzees are monkeys. There are many differences between the two, but the easiest way to tell if a primate is a monkey or a great ape is by noting whether or not they have a tail. Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and gibbons all do not have tails – making them apes!