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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

See also: Eurasian Brown Bear (Ursus arctos arctos)

Ursus is Latin for bear and arctos is Greek 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 16 points 2 days ago

I think you have it the wrong way around. Ursus is Latin and arctos is Greek.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oops! I really should be 💯 on it by now since it's been one of my favorite facts for several years 😄

Anyways, thanks for the correction, I'll go ahead and edit it 😁

[-] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 10 points 2 days 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.

[-] LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 days ago

But isn't Ursa Major a bear?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

no, she's a major general in the forces, you hippie!

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

They are, in fact, the very model of a modern major general!
They have information vegetable, animal and mineral!

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Dammit, beat me by 5 minutes! I tip my hat to you, good sir/madam/other 👌🎩

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 days ago

Lunar's the loony, I'M the hippie!

Would you say that she's the very model of a modern Major General, or would that be going too far?

[-] Pringles@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago

Yes, it means "The great bear" or "The big bear".

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[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 6 points 2 days ago

You're fucking kidding me

I'm renaming the arctic from now on

[-] silverchase@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago
[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago
[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

I miss those days, now it’s all boring version control

[-] GiveOver@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago

My junior's commit messages look like this image. There's always a way.

[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

The Gen Z translation is "Gorilla fr" and "Gorilla frfr"

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

It's the gorillast of them all

[-] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 67 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Is the other species the Western Highland Gorilla(Agorilla gorilla gorilla)?

Edit: it's not, it's the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) Also, here's a graphic for y'all to enjoy:

[-] Zenith@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago

For a long time humans were classified as homo sapien sapien

[-] kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago

Wait, they took one of our sapiens? The bastards!

[-] Iunnrais@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days 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.

[-] Velypso@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago

OP missed a good opportunity to title this post "goriginallity"

[-] And009@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 2 days ago

Disgusted slow clap

[-] HowAbt2day@futurology.today 45 points 3 days ago

If you have a problem with neurodivergent ape namers, please understand that you’re wrong wrong wrong.

The guy who named it was running away from it in a panic at the time. "AH FUCK! GORILLA! GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA!"

[-] iuly20_07@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

The most gorilla gorilla that ever gorillaed.

[-] SirQuack@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Soon that will be 'to ever have gorrilaed'.

Wikipedia screenshot; "The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two Critically Endangered subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)"

^(source)

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 days ago

"That one to left, that's the most gorilla that can ever gorilla. Look how hard it's gorillaing! Name it accordingly."

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 26 points 3 days ago
[-] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago

That's Grape Ape. I suspect you wanted Magilla Gorilla

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[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago
[-] Etterra@discuss.online 14 points 2 days ago

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Gorilla gorilla, Gorilla gorilla gorilla, gorilla Gorilla gorilla

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 4 points 2 days 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 2 points 2 days 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.

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 1 points 2 days ago

You're doing the lord's work

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 days ago
[-] 200ok@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

10/10 gorilla

[-] Alaik@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

Because we biologists fucking SUCK at naming things.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days 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 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

https://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/mm10/bigZips/

Example, say you have 5 sequences: CAT, ATC, ATCG, CGT, and ATATA.

One way of combining them up together to build a transcriptome is like this:

5 sequences:     ATATA
               CG-T  ATC
             ATCG CAT

  Reference: ATCGATATATC

ATCGATATATC isn't the only solution to these sequences, but as you get more sequences to try and overlap, the more the uncertainty goes down

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

That’s really interesting, thanks for sharing

[-] xylol@leminal.space 12 points 3 days ago

That's how gorillas pronounce their name

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago

some one tell him about Buffalo

[-] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

gorilla together stronger

[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
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[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days 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 5 points 3 days ago

I'm guessing you've never heard of Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger

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