It May Fly, but does it???
Does it???
It does for a bit, and it’s more like a Junefly in my experience
Prairie oyster: Not an oyster
That one’s to catch out foreigners. I’m convinced.
Source: foreigner that will never be caught out but might very well have if he didn’t know a South Dakotan.
Do they actually serve those anywhere?
If you look at the Wikipedia pages for many of these animals, they’ll use terms like, “true eel,” “true goat,” and “true cobra.” I guess that’s how they generally handle animals that share common names despite not technically being in the correct family or whatever.
The Eastern Kingbird may perhaps rule over the eastern part of the west.
Forgot to include the Blue Tit
They have blue on their head and back and are part of the Paridae family.
So they don’t belong on the cartoon as they are both blue (at least in a large part) and tits.
Not sure what the original source of this was, other than an old tumblr post
Here’s the original tumblr thread just in case
Nobody has mentioned mountain oysters.
Is the guy on stage squatting one out?
Mayfly indeed may fly, give it a pass!
Also that is around spring/summer.
I’m pretty sure when a snake has ‘king’ in it’s name, that’s because it eats other snakes.
Just like human kings do!
I really hope this doesn’t apply to the birds as well!
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.
Wait until you find out what a fish is.
This is very jackdaw.
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.
now do it with fish!
Phylogenetically, “fish” are simply all non-tetrapod vertebrates.
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.
Nice ouroboros definition
Found the python programmer.
genus Capra
Ahh so thats what Capra Demon is
The goat head on the dude didn’t give it away?
- 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.
We’re headed toward a weird collision of memes, where everything becomes crabs, but nothing is one.
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.
Which is the point.
All these animal names (goat / crab / fish / etc) have accepted meanings. They may not match specific genus, but that’s ok.
Camel spider - Not a camel, Not a spider.
Not only that, but horseshoe crabs are closer to camel spiders than they are to crabs – closer, in fact, than horseshoe crabs are to bees, which themselves are (recently) crustaceans.
Not sure why you got downvoted, btw; great example.
Coconut crab - Not a coconut
Cocconut tree - Not a tree
Wait… What are they then? Really tall shrubs?
I thought they were ferns but I was wrong, turns out they are grass.
Palm trees are angiosperms, which means flowering plants. They are monocots which means their seeds produce a single, leaf-like cotyledon when they sprout. This makes palms closely related to grasses and bamboos.
But, in fact, a hermit crab!
Porcelain crab – Not a crab.
And not made of porcelain
- Imitation Crab - a crab
How is no one talking about the mountain chicken?
Or chicken of the woods?
Have you ever tested its courage on a mountain?
Fascinating on King Cobras, I had no idea!
Yeah, it’s little known but true fact that snakes do, indeed, not recognize any monarchical systems at all!
“I didn’t vote for you!”
You don’t vote for cobras!
It’s well-known that snakes are right-wing libertarians.
That’s racist! Snake voice against snakeland!
Classic. Love this one
All jokes based on the premise that the only true meaning of words for living things is the technical one are shit.
Yeah, I just hate it when big taxonomy is trying to push their scientific agenda into our language. Can’t even call a racoon a “trash panda” any more because it’ll upset the Chinese!
[spraying crumbs] exactly!
Snowy owl: not made of snow.
Every Fish Owl: not a fish.
Every Eagle-Owl: not an eagle.
Every Hawk Owl: not a hawk.
Spotted owl: often can’t be spotted (especially if she’s inside tree hollows, good luck trying to spot her).
Elf owl: not an elf.
Fearful owl: not always fearful (especially when she’s hunting her prey)
Laughing owl: unfortunately hasn’t been laughing since the early 1900s (she’s extinct 😢)
Golden masked owl: wears no golden mask.
(Also, any masked owl: wears no masks)
Eastern Grass owl: not made of grass.
Bubo virginianus: can be found dwelling thousands of kilometers away from the USian state, for example, in Brazilian Southeast.
Megascops sanctacatarinæ: can be found in Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Paraná, hence not just Santa Catarina.
Burrowing owls: generally uses burrows made by other animals (e.g. prairie dogs), so she isn’t necessarily burrowing her burrow.
Athene noctua lilith (on her way to become a taxonomic species of her own, Athene lilith): unlikely to be the specific species related to the Mesopotamic Goddess (in fact, Otus and Bubo (esp. Bubo ascalaphus and Bubo cinerascens due to their geographical habitats) would be far more stronger candidates for the flanking owls depicted in the Burney Relief)…and so on so forth. Lol
