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LEARN THE DIFFERENCE PEOPLE 👏👏👏
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Ioughttamow@kbin.run 1 year ago
kshade@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hate your whimper
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Way back in the day in middle America my parents got my Lil brother a pet baby cayman.
Well…it kept getting bigger. Then bigger. Then we got a book and figured out she was sold a bootleg alligator instead. Poor choices caused it to get released at a local pond. Childhood had a lot of bad choices in my family.
thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 1 year ago
Drink her essence!
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Fuuuuck I forgot about this
That movie scared me so much as a child, I loved it
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
The Netflix prequel series is great, but they cancelled it after the first season. Fuckers.
lledrtx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Y u leave my boy Gharial out huh?
They are so cute too blog.wcs.org/photo/…/Don-Boyer-10425-Gharial.jpg
Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
CAIMAN! Ffs, its not an island.
Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Crocodiles are so scrungly compared to alligators.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure the first one is a caimen and the second might or might not be a crocodile.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
I heard that Frank Oz operates all crocodilians.
Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Caiman looks the most like a dragon head. Mmm…
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A great guide to extant archosaurs!
Zugyuk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t the first one an alligator, and the third a crocodile?
venoft@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, I also though so at first but a quick google confirms this is right.
If you look up ‘freshwater crocodile’ you’ll see he looks a lot like his mommy.
crawancon@lemm.ee 1 year ago
no?
BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Actually yes. I think it’s written the wrong way because of the sublemmy?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No. Alligators have a rounded snout and only upper teeth visible. The third one is the alligator
Aria@lemmygrad.ml 1 year ago
Am I being stupid? That’s a caiman and two alligators, no? Crocodiles have forward eyes.
Cyberbatman@lemmings.world 1 year ago
According to my Spanish friend, 1st one is a cocodrilo 2nd is a cocodrilo 3rd is also a cocodrilo 4th is a monstruo
NielsBohron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Fun fact about the etymology of “alligator:” When the Spanish first landed in what is now Florida, they found alligators and simply called them “el lagarto,” which literally translates to “the lizard.” While there were many reptiles in the swamps and bayous, only one was enough of a problem to be called “THE lizard,” and after several mistranslations into other languages, “el lagarto” morphed into “alligator”
Or at least that’s what I read somewhere once.
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
We still colloquially call them lagartos, regardless if its a crocodile or alligator.
hakase@lemm.ee 1 year ago
All of this is correct, except that it’s not a “mistranslation”, it’s a borrowing. Boundaries between words and morphemes are commonly lost in borrowing, and borrowed sounds commonly undergo adaptation as well.
Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 year ago
In the northern Territory of Australia we have no alligators. We are however famous for pur salt and fresh water crocodiles.
So whe.n Europens arrived and found this few massive rivers full of crocodiles they called them the West, South, and Aast alligator rivers.