Studied Ichthyology in the early 2000's and will never forget how much of my A&P coursework was on birds. And how the lab TAs were not at all impressed when I just called them all air fish.
I call them pretty birds, unless I'm calling them a little fucker, and that's because it's a chickadee that won't hold still for 2 goddamn seconds so I can get a photo
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The_v@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 2y
This meme is incorrect. A botatist would have names like:
"Little bastard who ate my Alyssum maritimum"
"Fucker who at the flower buds on my Forsythia europea"
"Little shithead who dug up my Lathyrus odoratus"
LongbottomLeaf@lemmy.nz · 15 pts · 2y
Correct. Also,
"Poops seeds of..."
"Nests in..."
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 18 pts · 2y
Studied Ichthyology in the early 2000's and will never forget how much of my A&P coursework was on birds. And how the lab TAs were not at all impressed when I just called them all air fish.
logicbomb@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
This reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there's no such thing as a fish.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 2y
There's also no such thing as a tree. Tree is a survival strategy, not a biological classification.
P.S. If you haven't listened to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast by the QI elves, you're missing out.
frickineh@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y
I feel like even a botanist would know a seagull because their assholery is so epic. The seagull's assholery, not the botanists', that is.
phorq@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah, but don't give them the credit. I'll never forgive them for shitting on me that one time (botanists that is...)
teft@startrek.website · 9 pts · 2y
False. Those are all drones.
DavidGarcia@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 2y
Bert
idunnololz@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Bart
bert@lemmy.monster · 6 pts · 2y
Yes?
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
Birding for engineers:
There are quack-quacks and peep-peeps.
Classy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 2y
I call them pretty birds, unless I'm calling them a little fucker, and that's because it's a chickadee that won't hold still for 2 goddamn seconds so I can get a photo
xantoxis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y