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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

actually no such thing as fish

ELI22 undergrad degree?

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[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The only land animals that aren't fish are animals with exoskeletons. Whales are fish just as much as you and me are. And we are fish :)

[–] greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank you for agreeing with me, but I specifically asked for a fight

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Best I can do is fish.

[–] Tuuktuuk@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 week ago

You'll never get that from me!

Gruahahahhaaaaa!

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

"What is a Fish?" coming soon

[–] missandry351@lemmings.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Transphobes 🤯 after reading this

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Not even close to a transphobe and my mind is still blown at the fact of the nonexistence of fish.

[–] FortyTwo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Slightly off-topic from the intended point, but I've heard this more often, that there's no such thing as a fish, but it's a useful constructed concept to have.

So why is it so important that we all remember that animals like whales are not fish, they're mammals? Didn't stop us from calling animals from other groups fish, why should mammals get a special treatment?

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The point is to emphasize that whales biologies are significantly different from other similar-looking things, not technicalities about which named group they belong to.

[–] Droechai@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Because mammals got those mammaries. So deeply rooted that humans can't stop putting them even on non-mammals when we want to anthropomorphise in stories, myths and art

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