(urth) Monkey business

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 07:41:34 PDT 2010


>> ** Not very important, but I don't think a dog/ape hybrid is intended.
>> "Cynecephalus" (dog-headed) is a term which seems to get applied to
>> baboons - eg /Papio cynocephalus
>> //http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Baboon// /
>
> Yes, but the translator says that animal names are given by role 
> rather than by taxonomy. 

There are smilodons and giant sloths. I presume these are generally 
indistinguishable for the ancient extinct varieties. I really did assume 
when I first read this that we were talking about a mandrill or baboon.

u+16b9



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