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Valuable-Pay-5740 t1_j970dsk wrote
Reply to I told my daughter, "Did you know that humans eat more bananas than monkeys?" She rolled her eyes at me, but I persevered. "It’s true!" by madazzahatter
You're not being pedantic, gorillas are apes not monkeys.
Valuable-Pay-5740 t1_j93e8w5 wrote
Reply to I told my daughter, "Did you know that humans eat more bananas than monkeys?" She rolled her eyes at me, but I persevered. "It’s true!" by madazzahatter
The number of bananas eaten by humans is substantially larger than the number of bananas eaten by monkeys.
The joke makes no mention of the average consumption of an individual and refers to humans (approximately 8 billion) and monkeys (200,000). So each monkey would have to eat more bananas than 40,000 humans for the alternative to be true.
Not all monkeys eat bananas, e.g. the diet of a wild howler monkey is almost entirely comprised of leaves.
Humans eat a lot of bananas, India alone produced 29 million tonnes of bananas last year.
In my opinion, apart from these obviously unimportant shortcomings under pedantic analysis, its a good joke.
Valuable-Pay-5740 t1_j973k7i wrote
Reply to I told my daughter, "Did you know that humans eat more bananas than monkeys?" She rolled her eyes at me, but I persevered. "It’s true!" by madazzahatter
To be fair to you, I was wrong about the total, there are many more than 200,000, but substantially less than 8 billion.
If you were being pedantic you wouldn't have inclined gorillas as they are apes not monkeys