Comment on Whales is whales

• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Why elephants? I mean whales are not cows just by looking at what they eat. In that way manatees eating mostly sea plants are closer to being cows. Are they not?

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  • shuzuko@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I think it’s a joke about manatees having evolved from the same land-based ancestor as elephants, making them pretty literally “sea elephants”.

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    • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yes, I was referring to the evolutionary aspects, not the ecological ones :)

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Interesting. Just like the actual closest living relative to the elephant looks like a malnourished beaver

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