• @IMongoose
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    2828 days 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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      27 days 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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      327 days ago

      Killer whale is orca which is a predatory whale.

    • @TriflingToad
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      228 days ago

      wtf who’s beefing with starfish

    • @Machinist
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      127 days ago

      Crawdads. Tasty with some hot sauce.