I like to watch people picking fuzz or lint off one another’s shirts or out of their hair. It just looks so much like chimps grooming one another, it makes me giggle.
You can play that game all day long. We’re really just a lobed finned fish because we’re more closely related to certain lobed finned fish than they are to trout.
But if anything, Chimps are a species of us. *Homo *came before Pan (in the taxonomic naming sense), so precedence would favor the former genus over the latter.
No. The OP is trying to come up with something that names us, and only us, as animals. Primate is much too broad.
How about “Humates” or “Primuns”?
Most times when I look at my palms I think, “These are monkey hands.” and then I smile on the inside. That thought brings me peace. Whenever life gets hard I can console myself with the thought that I am just some random monkey monkeying my way through life just like the rest of the monkeys. 
But are you the Proudest Monkey? 
I think about this quite frequently when observing a group of individuals or I am in heavy traffic. It is really kind of humorous to think of these little games we play, pretending not to be animals. A similar kind of thought I always get when observing a classroom is that all these people have these organs in their heads with these huge egos controlling all their actions. So much power and feeling in this little bit of organic material, that at the same time is so fragile.
Bus?
I know that when I look at the Archbishop of Canterbury, I see a primate.
I am pleasantly surprised at the lack of contrary argument here. No one claimed humans are not animals or elevated them with an injection of mystical qualities. Pleasantly surprised.
Ook, ook, ook.
I’ve always considered us a kind of plant, really.
Err. A mystical plant.
When I see a pretty girl ,I think ,there’s the gorilla my dreams.
Too bad we’ve lost our chloroplasts. Then I could sit in the sun instead of preparing a lunch.
When there are a lot of them, I tend to think of cows. But no, I definitely don’t see an ape. I think it would damage my social life tremendously if I did (not that there’s much to damage).
A link to this book is needed here.
Yes I do ‘see’ us as apes, often followed by hilarious outlooks (e.g. gaggles of women, gangs of guys with their alpha tough man, and really any group interaction).
I see people as “animals” right before I pop a cap in their ass. It helps with the dehumanizing process.
This was not nearly as funny as I am sure it seemed to you after your second or third forty.
Please give serious consideration to my comments in this post.
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An interesting question. Pet owners see their dogs as individuals. Native americans often named animals and even birds they frequently encountered. I believe the best way I have heard this described is: When you look at someone do you see the frame or the picture inside the frame which would be the personality. In spirituality one is taught to look beyond the body into the being within. It involves discernment of the world around you. The more you are able to connect with individuals instead of masses the more aware you become. It leads to knowledge and wisdom of life.
Perhaps “ad hominem”, considering our predilection to appealing to one’s prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one’s intellect or reason.
Jill Greenberg’s Monkey Portraits make me see monkeys as very human.
Some of Spencer Tunick’s photos make me see humans as animals.