• @IMongoose
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    284 months ago

    Annoy naturalists with these other animal names too: Jellyfish, crawfish, starfish, Killer Whale, Canadian Geese, and American Buffalo.

    • @[email protected]
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      4 months ago

      The buffalo thing pisses me off the most. Entire cultures are defined by that animal and it’s incredibly significant to the history of the prairies and the continent as a whole. So it seems to me pretty disrespectful to go to these people and go “um actually what you’ve been calling this animal for centuries is wrong actually because Linnaeus or whatever”

    • Caveman
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      34 months ago

      Killer whale is orca which is a predatory whale.

    • @TriflingToad
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      24 months ago

      wtf who’s beefing with starfish

    • @Machinist
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      14 months ago

      Crawdads. Tasty with some hot sauce.