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Re: List animals until failure

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Post by Scarblac »

yellowapple wrote: post #78
4gotunameagain wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah there are lots of inaccuracies. I added bobcat, then lynx, and it would not accept lynx because bobcat was there. Oh, and, 77, just woke up. No coffee.

Likewise, it wouldn't accept “panther” because “tiger” was already there: > I assume you mean “panther” in the general sense of any big cat. Why on Earth would it assume mean that , of all things, rather than “black panther”? If it's gonna be pedantic about it, it could've complained about “leopard” and “jaguar” already being there (which they were) instead of complaining about an animal that nobody in their right mi…

There is no actual "panther" animal though, the word is used for several different animals (leopards, jaguars and pumas at least, I think).

They can all have melanistic coats and are then often called black panthers. But that's not a species.

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Post by yorwba »

_ache_ wrote: post #101
wincy wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hahah in a moment of desperation I put “unicorn” which its response made me laugh out loud.

Ahah. After trying myself, I immediately tried "Obama" and it works ! But oddly enough, most personality with a name in the "List of organisms named after famous people" doesn't work. Nether does bacterium or fish ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisms_named_after_...

The flatworm genus Obama is not named after Barack Obama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama_(flatworm)

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by lelanthran »

4gotunameagain wrote: post #69
monopoliessuck wrote: post #61

I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

yeah there are lots of inaccuracies. I added bobcat, then lynx, and it would not accept lynx because bobcat was there. Oh, and, 77, just woke up. No coffee.

114, here, because it allows extinct animals (sabre tooth, Mammoth, stegasaurus, etc)

Also, things we normally don't consider animals - tapeworm, aphid, etc.

Also accepted blue whale, sperm whale and orca :-/

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Post by baxtr »

cainxinth wrote: post #99
monopoliessuck wrote: post #61

I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

It raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.

AFAIK, a "super-organism" composed of individual entities is defined as one where the long-term fitness interests of those individuals and their groups are completely and permanently aligned.

For example an ant colony is a super-organism. That’s why it makes sense for a soldier ant to die for her queen.

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Post by keanebean86 »

eru wrote: post #112
moron4hire wrote: post #106

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A tomato is definitely a vegetable. Botanically, there are no such things as vegetables. The classification of a thing as a "vegetable" is strictly a culinary distinction. Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, oranges, they're all the fruit of the plant, but the first two are culinarily classified as vegetables and the last two as fruits. Also, salad is a preparation method, specifically the chopping of ingredients and the ap…

Apples are not fruit in the strict botanical sense. > Apples are considered "accessory fruits" (or sometimes termed "false fruits") rather than true botanical fruits because the fleshy, edible part develops primarily from the flower's hypanthium or receptacle, not just the ovary. The actual, true fruit is the core containing the seeds, making it a pome.

These discussions are really fun to me. The opportunities to be absurdly pedantic are almost endless. Common words for things gloss over so many details. Most of the time those details aren't important but they still exist and there's someone on the internet that cares deeply about them.
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