Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?
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Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week 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 week ago
I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago
You’re fucking kidding me
I’m renaming the arctic from now on
silverchase@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Bearritory
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 1 week ago
If you have a problem with neurodivergent ape namers, please understand that you’re wrong wrong wrong.
Velypso@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
OP missed a good opportunity to title this post “goriginallity”
And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 week ago
Disgusted slow clap
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week 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 week ago
iuly20_07@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.
SirQuack@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Soon that will be ‘to ever have gorrilaed’.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Shit, here we go again.
can@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
I mean, just look at 'em
200ok@lemmy.world 1 week ago
10/10 gorilla
Etterra@discuss.online 1 week ago
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla
silasmariner@programming.dev 1 week 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 week 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 week ago
For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien
kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Wait, they took one of our sapiens? The bastards!
Iunnrais@lemm.ee 1 week 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 week 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 week 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 week ago
That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing
crawancon@lemm.ee 1 week ago
some one tell him about Buffalo
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
gorilla together stronger
Alaik@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.
latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week 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 week ago
I’m guessing you’ve never heard of Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
awth13@hexbear.net 1 week ago
Mushroom mushroom
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 1 week ago
It’s the gorillast of them all
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 1 week 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 week 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 week ago
That look, “what you want?”.
200ok@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Image
Evotech@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I miss those days, now it’s all boring version control
GiveOver@feddit.uk 1 week ago
My junior’s commit messages look like this image. There’s always a way.