Latin names suck

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• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not to mention the actual names. “There’s a bear. What should we call it?” “Well, it’s black. Let’s call it a Black Bear.” “How about that one? It’s brown.” “We’ll call it a Brown Bear.”

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  • zqwzzle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bony-eared_assfish

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The bony-eared assfish has been distinguished, by some sources, as having the smallest brain-to-body weight ratio of any vertebrate.

      When biologists decide to burn something, they just go on and on.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      yeah but those are jerks

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    First two sound like Ubuntu releases.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fun fact, the original word for bear has been lost because people refused to mention them directly - like Voldemort

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    • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This isn’t really true though. Although many IE langauges don’t use a descendant of *h₂r̥ktos, plenty of languages do, e.g. French ours, Albanian ari, Greek άρκτος, Welsh arth etc.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      All original words have been lost because language changes…

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ah hut they’re not called bears, we just have to call them that or we upset the bear god who will end us if we say their real name.

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• lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Birds in the genus Turdus totally deserve the name. They’re like:

  • “Look! Cat food! Yummy!”
  • “Why are there cats here? FLY AWAY!”
  • “Why is the air solid? Perhaps if I hit it over and over I’ll fly past it!”

  Every single time this happened I managed to save the turd (they should be glad one of my cats is senile and the other overweight), but then the laundry room is full of turd turds and feathers and my cats spend hours looking for the missing bird.

  (inb4 yes, “thrush”. Fuck it, I’m still calling them “turds”. Turdus rufiventris, aka rust-bellied turds.)

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• Sarcasmo@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Turdus is looking disgruntled.

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Turdus Migratorius

  ICE will deport this bird.

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  • Renat@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Fun fact - this bird live in Mexico in winter but in other seasons it moves to USA.

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    • TheTurner@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can confirm. I see them spring to fall.

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• Yaky@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  IIRC the “migratorius” part is only partially true, they migrate, but relatively short distances, so their year-round range is still pretty much the entire continental US.

  They do gather into flocks in fall-winter and then split back into pairs in spring-summer, which is interesting.

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• Ephera@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I enjoy how “turd” rhymes with “bird”…

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    heh bird

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Turd turd turd turd is the word

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  • YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Turdus birdus

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    turd migrating, thats what the robin genus sounds like.

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Just that this “robin” isn’t one, it actually is a thrush. A robin would be Erithacus. They are both in different families even (and also look pretty different).

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• massive_bereavement@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Pica pica

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  • generallynonsensical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Alces alces

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    • Pegajace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Boops boops

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• MistressRemilia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s so cool how scientists named ravens after the primarch of the Raven Guard in 40k 😌

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