What is the difference between monkeys and apes?

Question

What is the difference between monkeys and apes?

Answer 1

Monkeys and apes are both primates.  Apes are generally larger (except gibbons), have full shoulder rotation, broad chests, arms longer than legs, and no tails.

Answer 2

The great apes like the gorilla..orangutan...chimpanzee closely resemble the ape man/woman that closely resemble the modern man/woman...the others that are monkeys do not.

Answer 3

Monkeys have tails, apes do not.

Answer 4

monkeys have tails

Answer 5

Monkeys have VISIBLE tails

Apes have vestigial tails - NOT VISIBLE

too whit - we are from the same line of descendants as Apes and we have vestigial tails called a coccyx