Comment on English has too many words for animals
renzev@lemmy.world 2 days agoMost humans live above ground level, you sound like your live in your mother’s basement. Doesn’t make you a different species, does it?
Comment on English has too many words for animals
renzev@lemmy.world 2 days agoMost humans live above ground level, you sound like your live in your mother’s basement. Doesn’t make you a different species, does it?
MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
So you’re just admitting you don’t understand taxonomy
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Technically this is nor taxonomy, since we aren’t talking about relatedness. This is just linguistics.
explanation
Land dwelling evolved multiple times in turtles, like in box turtles, which are not in the clade of tortoises, but would fit the common definition of tortoise.