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Re: List animals until failure

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Post by david-gpu » Sun, Feb 01, 2026, 3:49 PM UTC

lelanthran wrote: post #125

4gotunameagain wrote: post #69

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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 :-/

All of those species belong to the animalia kingdom. They are animals. So are starfish. "Animal" doesn't mean "mammal".

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by eudamoniac » Sun, Feb 01, 2026, 3:54 PM UTC

patrick451 wrote: post #108

This game thinks buffalo and bison are the same thing and elk and deer are the same thing. Which is absurd, they even require buying different tags when hunting.

Elk are a species of deer and the American buffalo is also known as a bison.

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by eudamoniac » Sun, Feb 01, 2026, 3:55 PM UTC

alterom wrote: post #33

echelon wrote: post #14

106, I feel like I should have done much better. (I feel like I cheated by naming a lot of dinosaurs and insects.) The clown emoji is great. :)

Another 106 here. I got to the point where I was just blanking out looking at the countdown timer.

Strange, I also scored 106. A common sticking point?

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by grantseltzer » Sun, Feb 01, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

https://rose.systems/animalist%0A%0A180%20animals%20listed%0...

Re: List animals until failure

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 01, 2026, 3:56 PM UTC

Scarblac wrote: post #120

cainxinth wrote: post #99

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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.

I think the bacteria in your gut outnumber the human cells in your body.

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Re: List animals until failure

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Post by technothrasher » Sun, Feb 01, 2026, 4:03 PM UTC

Scarblac wrote: post #121

yellowapple wrote: post #78

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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.

I believe the poster you're replying to understands that. They're noting that the complaint about panther was curiously because they had already listed tiger, which is practically never called a panther, and not because they already listed leopard, which is a cat that is often called a panther. The statement about meaning "any big cat" I would guess to be a confusion based on the name Pantherinae for the subfamily of Felidae of which all these big cats are part. Though the puma, which as you note is also called a panther, is in the different subfamily, Felinae.

I personally just tend to avoid the word panther, because it very often causes confusion as to which cat you're talking about.