Nature-inspired memes

[mothdragon]

[whaichi]

[ram_k]

@blue_lotus

Remember this the next time a pedant tries to “well actually” you about these terms. It is perfectly okay to call venom poison.

ha ha

I think I am going to copy this and keeping sending it to myself to remember.

[ram_k]

[apusaffinis]

Very few people are getting sick by eating venomous snakes, or being bitten by poisonous frogs; you can know what’s going on very well just by using context. All pedantry does is unnecessarily alienate people who are trying to engage.

[whaichi]

[animallover28]

This is what my brain thinks of, when someone mentions the Beatles

[davidklop]

“Dice beetle” is actually a far better name than any of the common names the Coccinellidae already has.

[ram_k]

Source : https://www.ishmael.org/daniel-quinn/the-fence-poster/

[jasonhernandez74]

@ram_k

Source : https://www.ishmael.org/daniel-quinn/the-fence-poster/

That was an important book in my undergrad days.

[ram_k]

I am just discovering it :-)

[bogsnail]

kinda reminds me of cetaceans. imagine evloving for millions of years from fish to live on land and then “fuck it, return to fish”

[ralfmuschall]

Since we all are bound to evolve into crabs at some point in the future (carcinization), those people will meet their fate soon.

[tanyuu]

i swear, it just happens that way

[liamodo]

[whaichi]

I suppose one could also switch out ‘taxonomy’ for ‘common names’ …

[GothHobbit]

You and me both, @tanyuu.

[liamodo]

[coleopteroid]

[coleopteroid]