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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, I was referring to the evolutionary aspects, not the ecological ones :)
  
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- Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Interesting. Just like the actual closest living relative to the elephant looks like a malnourished beaver
  
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