Ape = Menschenaffen (Gorilla, Orang Utan, Schimpansen,Bonobo)
monkeys = die anderen Affen

danke!

Monkeys have tails and apes don't as I remember.

@neilo: You remember well:

ape = an animal that is similar to a monkey but has no tail or only a very short tail (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English)

@Florian,
I should know this. I am, after all, an Inselaffe!

http://science.howstuffworks.com/question660.htm

See link

@neilo
you're not monkeying about in another thread are you? :-)

@Marianne,
Are you suggesting I'm trying to ape my alter ego "Chicken Boy"?

@neilo
monkey see, monkey do ...

@Marianne,

I'm a bit baboonzelled (cringe). Chickens were a lot easier. Maybe you can think for me. You seem like an affeble kind of person.

@neilo
enough monkey business for now
have to go and throw a [...] wrench into a meeting.
Have a nice day.

donŽt spank the monkey!

@Naked Ape
I don't know what you're into, but this is an odd choice of website for that!

Neilo re NakedApe: Here no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

what did i start here? :-)

@Angela,

Don't worry. You weren't to know. See the threads about "gimp" (or was it "geek"?) and "rubber chicken" and you may get an idea of what could happen if you're not careful.
Selkie started it! ;)

I see... :-)