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Birding for Botanists (mander.xyz)
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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago

Studied Ichthyology in the early 2000's and will never forget how much of my A&P coursework was on birds. And how the lab TAs were not at all impressed when I just called them all air fish.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there's no such thing as a fish.

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

There's also no such thing as a tree. Tree is a survival strategy, not a biological classification.

P.S. If you haven't listened to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast by the QI elves, you're missing out.

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