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Comment by rkda | Hacker News Reader

All those references to monkeys hurt my head. Bonobos are not monkeys. If they wanted to name it after monkeys, they should've called it Capuchin or something.

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Noted, sorry for that. I'll get more infos about bonobos.

The picture looks more like a Gorilla than a Bonobo too

Currently realizing that we only have one word in french for both ape and monkeys ...

Oh... now it makes more sense. Didn't mean to sound harsh. Thanks for sharing your framework! :)

It didn't sound harsh at all. I'm really laughing a lot right now about how ignorant I am about apes and monkeys. ^^

Came here to post just that. It's called 'Bonobo', there's a picture of a gorilla, and the page keeps saying 'monkey'- as petty as it sounds, you're probably losing potential users to zoological nerdrage.

Yes, hackernews and twitter brutally told me I should take animal reign culture classes asap ...

This being said, if any of you have a good picture of bonobos that I can use instead of the current one, I'd be really glad to replace it! It needs to be released under a free license, though.

Thanks HN

I came here to say that! The bonobo is an an indigenous ape of the left bank of the Congo river in the Congo rain forest in the DR Congo. They look indistinguishable to chimpanzees to the untrained eye.

Gorillas are a whole different species and you have at least 4 subspecies of gorillas, none of which look like chimps or bonobos.

They have some behavioral features that tell them apart from a chimpanzee. Apparently they use sex as a greeting. It is (sort of) anthropomorphized in a hilarious way in the Will Self novel 'Great Apes'. However that may be colouring my memory of how common this is in the real creatures...

Monkey just isn't a good term to fight over. There are plenty of respectable people arguing that monkey means simian, not just non-hominoid simian (as you take from it). Either which way, fighting over where the taxonomical set ends is likely a waste of breath.

But yeah, a CGI gorilla for a site called bonobo. Le sigh.

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