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Re: List animals until failure

#181

Chipmunks are not squirrels

> Chipmunks are small, striped squirrels of subtribe Tamiina. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipmunk > But I know what you mean.

Yeh you'll need to add 'grey squirrel' or 'black squirrel' or 'red squirrel' I imagine.

Re: List animals until failure

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We think cows are singular animals, despite being made up of lots of different organisms with different DNA. (Much of the diversity happening in the gut.)

I suspect all mammals depend on colonies of gut flora to survive. Humans are no exception.

We would survive

Re: List animals until failure

#187

68. The unique title texts are really fun. But I strongly disagree that "chipmunks are squirrels".

It looks like common names like "squirrel" or "chipmunk" that cover many different species are taken more as "squirrel-like animal" and "chipmunk-like animal". They are in the same family (Sciuridae).

Just be more specific and it is happy to count them. For example it counts Townsend's chipmunk, Eastern chipmunk, Siberian chipmunk, Douglas squirrel, Eastern gray squirrel, Western gray squirrel, and Red squirrel all as separate animals.

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#189
I put pink dolphin, meaning Amazon River Dolphin, and it corrected it to Indian Humpback Dolphin. It looks like indian humpback dolphins can be pink, but as far as I can tell the species as a whole isn't valled that the way the amazon river dolphins are.

Re: List animals until failure

#190

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is "do my best" some kind of weird censorship-speak euphemism for "die"???

I think it's meant to convey "I'm not willing to _die_, but I do feel strongly"

Yes, it’s not a hill I’m willing to die on. It’s a hill I’m willing to defend until the cause is lost.
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