Comment on Whales is whales
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhy 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?
Comment on Whales is whales
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 months agoWhy 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?
shuzuko@midwest.social 6 months 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”.
angrystego@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yes, I was referring to the evolutionary aspects, not the ecological ones :)
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Interesting. Just like the actual closest living relative to the elephant looks like a malnourished beaver