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[-] The_v@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

This meme is incorrect. A botatist would have names like:

"Little bastard who ate my Alyssum maritimum"

"Fucker who at the flower buds on my Forsythia europea"

"Little shithead who dug up my Lathyrus odoratus"

[-] LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz 15 points 1 year ago

Correct. Also,

"Poops seeds of..."

"Nests in..."

[-] 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.

[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

I feel like even a botanist would know a seagull because their assholery is so epic. The seagull's assholery, not the botanists', that is.

[-] phorq@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but don't give them the credit. I'll never forgive them for shitting on me that one time (botanists that is...)

[-] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago
[-] teft@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

False. Those are all drones.

[-] Classy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

I call them pretty birds, unless I'm calling them a little fucker, and that's because it's a chickadee that won't hold still for 2 goddamn seconds so I can get a photo

[-] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Birding for engineers:

There are quack-quacks and peep-peeps.

this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2023
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