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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as a "monkey", is in fact, a simian, or as I've recently taken to calling them, "higher primates"...
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Here's the thing. You said a "chimpanzee is a monkey."
Is it in the same infraorder? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies monkeys, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls chimpanzees monkeys. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "monkey infraorder" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Simiiformes, which includes things from lemurs to librarians to humans.
So your reasoning for calling a chimpanzee a monkey is because random people "call the monkey-shaped ones monkeys?" Let's get raccoons and koalas in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a jackdaw or a crow? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A chimpanzee is a chimpanzee and a member of the monkey infraorder. But that's not what you said. You said a chimpanzee is a monkey, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the monkey infraorder monkeys, which means you'd call librarians, humans, and other apes monkeys, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?