Austinfrom1995 wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
Austinfrom1995 wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
^^what was the tv show about?
I dreamt that it was night time and my tin can out in the dark woods are surrounded by "deliverance"-styled yahoo troglodytes, all yelling at me to come outside and take what's comin' to me.
You dreamed of chimpanzees?
I honestly don't remember much about that dream, sorry.
How did you get "chimpanzees" out of what AB described?
You must have "Deliverance" confused with some other movie.
Pan troglodytes, the scientific name of Chimpanzees. That's how.
Sorry if I confused you.
A "troglodyte" is "person who lives in a cave", or "prehistoric stone age cave man", and by extension "a modern day person who is deliberately ignorant, or old fashioned".
So the word is usually used the way AB used it to mean a primitive attitude person. But not someone THAT primitive (so much so that they are of another species!).
Why scientists gave chimps that name for the Linnaean classification I don't know.
"Pan" is the name of a particular dude in Greek mythology who happened to be of the satyr persuasion.
Satyrs were human above the waist but were goats below the waist. So they were half-human, and half-animal.
So, I dunno, apparently scientists decided that chimps were like cave dwelling satyrs. Chimps don't live in caves, but compared to other animals they are unusually human like.
Our species name means "wise man", but we are not particularly wise.