Do chimpanzees deserve to be called great apes?

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Do chimpanzees deserve to be called great apes?

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Honestly, I've never found them to be all that great. But boy do they get mad about it if you say it to their face.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Any ape that can fuck you up as badly as a chimp can has earned the title.

 

[Epic Fail Man]

They should be called lousy apes because they are assholes.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

I don't know about great, but they're definitely Above-Average Apes.

 

[SIMIΔN]

What a joke.
I'm from Tchimpounga.
Our 'great ape' cousins in the Congo tear down vibrant food rich rainforests just to dig tasteless rocks out of the ground.
They call us savage, when until recently, they used to eat us as fucking 'bush meat'. The nofurs in Uganda killed millions of each other, but we are the beasts for our hierarchy challenges.
The pale ones aren't much better, they cut the locals hands off over petty bullshit.

The whole species is fucked up, either you have too many kids and ransack our territory or you stay forever a child and fill your nest with soulless funkos.
Young chimps see their fathers fight for a better future every day, whilst you baldies, lock your little'uns all together while you work all day for a boss who hates you.

Gorillas are bro-tier though, to be fair.

 

[millais]

What a joke.
I'm from Tchimpounga.
Our 'great ape' cousins in the Congo tear down vibrant food rich rainforests just to dig tasteless rocks out of the ground.
They call us savage, when until recently, they used to eat us as fucking 'bush meat'. The nofurs in Uganda killed millions of each other, but we are the beasts for our hierarchy challenges.
The pale ones aren't much better, they cut the locals hands off over petty bullshit.

The whole species is fucked up, either you have too many kids and ransack our territory or you stay forever a child and fill your nest with soulless funkos.
Young chimps see their fathers fight for a better future every day, whilst you baldies, lock your little'uns all together while you work all day for a boss who hates you.

Gorillas are bro-tier though, to be fair.
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According to the phylogenetic analysis, chimpanzees as a species do have superior genetic diversity compared to Homos, but phenotypically the chimpanzees don't seem as diverse.