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Dogs grow beards all over.

A controversial study suggest that orang-utans and not chimps are our closest living relative

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/anim ... evolution/



Not surprising really, they have similar parenting approaches to us humans

The English Bull Terrier is known as the clown of the canine world as well as being compared to a three year old child in a dog's body. The later is when they aren't being lazy, stubborn or begging.

They tend to have black lips so those with white fur on their faces tend to look like someone has drawn the smile on with a piece of charcoal.

The "Red Ape Heresy" has been around at least since a book of that title came out in the Eighties. And though humans share many traits wit the African apes (chimps, bonbobos, and gorillas) we also have ways of being more like the Asian orang than we are like any of the African apes. Males have flowing beards for one thing. My guess is that the orang is more basal in evolution than the other apes, and that humans may retain archaic ape traits that the other African apes discarded by are still present in orangutans. Hence the confusing evidence that points us being related tothem rather than being more related to chimps and gorillas.

orangutan comes from bahasa indonesian words for man (orang) and forest (hutan.)

Nobody ever suspects the butterfly.

Agreed, the consensus is that gorillas chimps and bonobos are our closest genetic relatives. However I have never seen a gorilla trained to get their drivers licence like Chimps and Orangs

Muppet found on sea bottom!

I resemble that remark!

Humans are closely related to sea squirts. We are both chordates.

Anything that has a spine (and some things that don't) is a chordate, so "closely" is a bit of a stretch.

I was being ironic......

The whole sea-squirt thing is fascinating to me.

"So, what invertebrate is most closely to related to vertebrates?"
"See this little blind tadpole-y thing?"
"Yeah! It's got bands of muscles on it that look like a fish fillet. That makes sense."
"Well, when this tadpole grows up, it sticks to the seafloor, digests its own brain and turns into an immobile bag of jelly."
"That makes... less sense."
"Often they stick together in big clumps of identical individuals all glued together. Sometimes these clumps can go whizzing through the water like a small gelatinous jet engine."
"Wait, what?"
"Oh, don't worry, it's not all wierd! Some of the tadpole things don't bother growing up. Instead, they hang around in a house made of their own snot that's just shaped like a sea squirt."

And remember; there are people who think someone designed this on purpose.

there are creatures other than humans who laugh/have a sense of humor or fun. dogs have been known to "HAHAHAHAHAHA" when they are playing, and when recordings of this are played back in kennels, the other dogs immediately perk up and listen. rats and monkeys giggle when tickled. dolphins have been observed to grin when they see humans do funny things. koko the gorilla was known for her jokes. crows and ravens have been known to antagonize other animals for reasons that can only be attributable to humor, same for parrots. even housecats have been known to do this.

I don't think a spine (which requires bone) is required. Been a long time since I took developmental biology, but here is wikepedia on the subject: of animals having at least at some stage of development a notochord, dorsally situated central nervous system, and gill slits and including the vertebrates, lancelets, and tunicates.

The definition includes sea squirts. That said, sea squirts are not that closely related.