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List animals until failure

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Re: List animals until failure

#78

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.

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 mind would call a “panther”.

Re: List animals until failure

#79
post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove ) or domesticated / feral variants of it.

Yep, but importantly "pigeon" and "dove" are not exactly interchangeable words, there is just no consensus for which is which. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbidae

Toads and frogs are another pair like this, where there is no clear distinction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog

Re: List animals until failure

#80

I'm mildly bothered that I can't input "fox" because I already entered "fennec", and the game decided it should be "fennec fox" :)

You would need to say "red fox". I think that feature, managing specificity, is actually quite well implemented.
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