Humans are great apes, but if you showed a video of human and said that it was a great ape, you'd be *technically* right, and you'd still have a lot of people objecting because that's not the way *anyone* outside of taxonomists would use the term.

Bad analogy. Humans evolved from apes. The moose did not evolve from deer. They are a separate species but a member of the deer family. In Sweden, they call them "deer".

Humans are a mammal belonging to a group commonly known as the great apes. We evolved along side the other currently existing great apes from a common ancestor. Humans are animals, we are still a member of the ape family. We just got lucky and became a more advanced species of ape.

Depending on how you define "advanced", anyways. I dunno, if I'd known that my decendents would be sweating their balls off working in un-airconditioned warehouses in the deep south, I never would have left the trees.

Humans are part of the hominadae family, commonly known as great apes. There are currently four generae in hominidae, and a total of eight species of great apes, of which humans are one. But you demonstrate my point: it's technically correct, but not how most people use the term.

No, humans are apes. Humans and other apes evolved from a common ancestor.

Humans, being apes, are also part of the ape family they are a separate species, but still a member of the world family. If you evolved from something, you are part of that thing and vice versa. Weird that you're all pedantic about a moose being a deer but don't know this.

The difference is in the term "evolved" which is the process of genetic changes in a population over time. We evolved from the apes to become a separate species. But the subspecies of today's moose (Alaskan, Eastern, etc) all evolved from the giant moose of the Pleistocene era - millions of yrs ago.

Right, like we evolved from other apes millions of years ago. It is literally exactly the same. We evolved from the apes to become another species... of ape. Moose evolved from other deer to become a new species of deer. (And moose) There is no difference.

Like Moose absolutely evolved from deer, if they didn't they couldn't be deer now. Which is your entire argument.

They do not as is clearly stated above by people from Sweden

Wow. Your ignorance should be more painful to you than me - based on the number of ppl FROM Sweden that have tried to Teach / correct you in this thread. Hmmm .. refusing to evolve in spite of the facts.. are you MAGA attempting a conversation?

Deer in Sweden = rådjur. No competent school kid in Sweden is going to call that white animal in the photo a rådjur or even ren. Moose and elk are both called älg in Sweden. They are not called deer regardless of these animals being in the Cervidae family in the scientific classification system.

Sigh.

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Well, there you have it. You learn something new every day. No matter how hard you try.

I didn’t know they were part of the deer family. I looked it up. People are really getting torn up about what to call, what I call, a moose.🤷🏻‍♀️

Would you call a panda a bear?

Yes, because it is indeed a bear. I like to call them, Panda Bears, but I have referred to them as beautiful bears.

Yes. Because it is. Why do people think they aren’t?

People usually say 'panda bear' when they see one...

Um, no, just Panda, like the beautiful Fiat! Here’s one in the wild…

Y-yes??? It’s a bear. You’d call a tiger a cat for the same reason

I wonder. Should we call a Panda Bear, an animal within the same family (Ursidae) as most other bears, a bear?