pink robins are not actually robins.
I’m studying insects at the moment and came across a couple of cracking beetles:
Not sure what the original source of this was, other than an old tumblr post
That looks like some Diogenes shit right there
Here’s the original tumblr thread just in case
Hello my baby, hello my honey, hello my ragtime gal.
Nobody has mentioned mountain oysters.
Rocky mountain oysters
Bull Fries.
A mountain goat is a goat, it’s just not in genus Capra.
Fun trip and interesting trip through taxonomy, though, in addition to the gags. A collection of wikipedia articles would be a nice companion.
it’s just not in genus Capra
That’s definitionally what goats are. It’s close, being in the same subfamily, but then so are sheep.
I think words like “goat” should have a generic and unstudied applicability: if it looks like a goat, and acts like a goat, it’s a goat.
A mountain goat looks like a goat and acts like a goat, therefore it is a goat.
A sheep neither looks like a goat, nor acts like a goat, therefore it is not a goat.
All semantics, of course. If you want to understand goat to mean “member of genus Capra”, you certainly can. If you want me to make goat mean that, you’re out of luck.
I’m willing to grant you the distinctions between goats and true goats, in deference to the science of biology. I am not a monster.
I’m willing to grant you the distinctions between goats and true goats, in deference to the science of biology.
Well that’s my point: this post is about how common names contrast with actual, rigid taxonomical definitions. :p
Like the colloquial word “goat” fits, but your comment read to me, given the context of the post, like you were saying goats can exist outside Capra via a technical definition, which isn’t true.
Also this post is a joke, as King Bird isn’t taxonomically defined.
True or false: The tomato is a fruit and a vegetable.
True in that it’s a fruit botanically and a vegetable culinarily (or, less arbitrarily for the latter, that it’s a part of a plant consumed for food).
A carrot, as another fun example, is a root botanically, a vegetable culinarily, and, in the European Union, a fruit legally as a carve-out for laws about making jams.
Same with peppers, zucchini, and all forms of squash.
Also, strawberries aren’t fruit, botanically speaking because the seeds aren’t inside
Yes, we don’t disagree on the biology… I’m just emphasizing the nature of colloquial language as a crowdsourced effort and distinguishing it from the technical rigors of taxonomy.
Wait until you find out what a fish is.
Either everything is fish, or nothing is
if it looks like a goat, and acts like a goat, it’s a goat.
Logic like this is why people used to consider mammals like dolphins and beavers as fish. Stop it.
Doplphins and beavers don’t act or look like fish to me. Dolphins maybe I could understand if you were an ancient person who lived inland, but beavers?
But I guess part of crowdsourcing is that you get some really stupid people on the project.
Some communities and parishes in the St Louis , MO area still recognize a 17th century French Catholic decision that, as aquatic animals, Beaver fall inside the dispensation that “fish” is acceptable for consumption on Fridays. Soooo, no matter its appearance, it is kinda fish?
Who tf listens to Catholic’s opinions on taxonomy? Especially 17th century ones?
St. Louis Catholics when in relation to Friday apparently. Also I feel like this is one of those spite filled fights that’s been going on for centuries and at this point it’s easier to jest leave em alone.
Nice ouroboros definition
genus Capra
Ahh so thats what Capra Demon is
It May Fly, but does it???
Does it???
It does for a bit, and it’s more like a Junefly in my experience
In Canada they’re junebugs
Mayfly indeed may fly, give it a pass!
Hmmmm… The guide didn’t say the mountain goat isn’t a mountain… So I guess I’ll go catch me me own mountain!
Hermit Crab - what kind of hermit would be so obsessed with real estate deals?
I never see a hermit crab by itself, there’s always at least a hundred of them together
a king crab is a hermit crab.
Bro needs to make a decision. Can’t be both a king and a hermit.
- Horseshoe crab – Not a crab.
- Hermit crab – Not a crab.
- King crab – Not a crab (but, in fact, a hermit crab).
- Porcelain crab – Not a crab.
No Such Thing As A Fish
That’s actually not true, funnily! There’s no such monophyletic thing as a fish, but “fish” has a very clear, commonly accepted definition in modern science, namely non-tetrapod vertebrates.
- Imitation Crab - a crab
most south american “foxes” arnt true foxes, genus vulpes they have thier own lineages. new world porcupine isnt actually closely related to old world porcupine(different evolution ).
extinct american cheetah, wasnt actually a cheetah but a PUMA relative, a different species.
king crabs arnt really crabs, but a type of hermit crab.
Ooh that means hermit crabs aren’t really crabs but actually hermit crabs!
Convergent evolution.
Also, horseshoe crabs are apparently arachnids now. The largest arachnids in fact
Also sea spiders arnt spiders at all, a sister group and basal of chelicterata. as many of them dont have 8 legs, some have 5, and others have 6.
Ah, more of an autonomous singleton.
They’re called Mountain Goats 'cause they’re the GOAT.
Almost like those names were made for morphological categorization rather than a phylogenetic categorization where we use a completely different naming scheme.
How is no one talking about the mountain chicken?
In parts of China where frogs are eaten, they call them 田雞 which literally means “field chicken” (although it can refer to several different species of frog)
turkey is fire chicken in catonese.
Or chicken of the woods?
I’m pretty sure when a snake has ‘king’ in it’s name, that’s because it eats other snakes.
hence the genus name Ophiophagus.
Just like human kings do!
