Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?
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Submitted 1 month ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)
Ursus is Greek for bear and arctos is Latin for…bear.
It’s the bear bear bear!
Bonus fun fact: Arctic means “the place with bears” and Antarctic means “the place without bears”
Pringles@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it’s been one of favorite facts for several years 😄
Anyways, thanks for the correction, I’ll go ahead and edit it 😁
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Arctic and Antarctic don’t mean anything about actual bears. They are named after the Ursa Major constellation. The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ursa Major means "the great bear“, though. Being named after something that’s named bear counts in my book as well as those of all but the worst pedants.
The absence of bears in Antarctica is a coincidence.
That’s what the secretly hyper-intelligent penguins who scared away the polar bears WANT you to think!
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 month ago
You’re fucking kidding me
I’m renaming the arctic from now on
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Bearritory
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 month ago
If you have a problem with neurodivergent ape namers, please understand that you’re wrong wrong wrong.
Velypso@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
OP missed a good opportunity to title this post “goriginallity”
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Disgusted slow clap
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
“That one to left, that’s the most gorilla that can ever gorilla. Look how hard it’s gorillaing! Name it accordingly.”
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 1 month ago
iuly20_07@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.
SirQuack@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Soon that will be ‘to ever have gorrilaed’.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Shit, here we go again.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I mean, just look at 'em
200ok@lemmy.world 1 month ago
10/10 gorilla
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 month ago
Ignoring capitalisation you can add as many buffalos as you like and still be parsable. I’ve only ever heard buffalo used as a verb in this one context, though, so seems a bit forced to me
Iunnrais@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The scuttlebutt is that buffalo as a verb was only attested very briefly in upstate New York and the Midwest for a brief period of time in the early 1900s. It never spread nationally, and definitely not internationally.
However, checking Google ngrams shows that “he buffaloed” and “was buffaloed”, (to ensure it’s being used idiomatically as a verb and not just in the famous example sentence) emerged in 1900, peaked in the 1950s, but has sustained small but constant use in published print since then. I was actually expecting the ngram to rapidly drop off and never recover… shocked to see that some people still use it as a real phrase.
Zenith@lemm.ee 1 month ago
For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wait, they took one of our sapiens? The bastards!
Iunnrais@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Not that I’ve heard of. Now, whether Homo sapiens idaltu is a real separate species from Homo sapiens sapiens is disputed, so there’s a question as to whether the second sapiens actually differentiates us from anything… but I haven’t seen any signs of any consensus against calling ourselves Homo sapiens sapiens to date.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe at some point we’ll have version control for all DNA mapping so each minor change is a commit hash and each major release is a tag
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
We do, the major versions have tag releases like mm7, mm8, mm9, etc. as defined by the current build, and minor patch releases too like mm10p14 as new sequences come in.
kautau@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing
crawancon@lemm.ee 1 month ago
some one tell him about Buffalo
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
gorilla together stronger
Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Alaik@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Reminds me of my classification for different types of water when I was but a wee spud:
- “water-water” - flat water
- "water" - anything else
propter_hog@hexbear.net 1 month ago
I’m guessing you’ve never heard of Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 month ago
It’s the gorillast of them all
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 1 month ago
Zoologists were all “we need the type species of every genus to have the generic epithet” and then someone raised their hand and yelled “what about subspecies?” and they went “screw it, same rule applies for subspecies” and then it turns out the whole thing was a just a prank on Thomas Savage because it’s not like anyone was about to rename humans to Homo homo
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. “AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!”
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
That look, “what you want?”.
200ok@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Image
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I miss those days, now it’s all boring version control
GiveOver@feddit.uk 1 month ago
My junior’s commit messages look like this image. There’s always a way.