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I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-w
by monopoliessuck 8mo ago
I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war.
It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals.
The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism.
They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.
- 4gotunameagain 8mo agoyeah there are lots of inaccuracies. I added bobcat, then lynx, and it would not accept lynx because bobcat was there. Oh, and, 77, just woke up. No coffee.
- yellowapple 8mo agoLikewise, it wouldn't accept “panther” because “tiger” was already there: > I assume you mean “panther” in the general sense of any big cat. Why on Earth would it assume mean that, of all things, rather than “black panther”? If it's gonna be pedantic about it, it could've complained about “leopard” and “jaguar” already being there (which they were) instead of complaining about an animal that nobody in their right mind would call a “panther”.
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- Scarblac 8mo agoThere is no actual "panther" animal though, the word is used for several different animals (leopards, jaguars and pumas at least, I think). They can all have melanistic coats and are then often called black panthers. But that's not a species.
- technothrasher 8mo agoI believe the poster you're replying to understands that. They're noting that the complaint about panther was curiously because they had already listed tiger, which is practically never called a panther, and not because they already listed leopard, which is a cat that is often called a panther. The statement about meaning "any big cat" I would guess to be a confusion based on the name Pantherinae for the subfamily of Felidae of which all these big cats are part. Though the puma, which as you note is also called a panther, is in the different subfamily, Felinae. I personally just tend to avoid the word panther, because it very often causes confusion as to which cat you're talking about.
- Sharlin 8mo ago"Lynx" can refer to either the Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) specifically, or to the genus Lynx and the four extant species in it (Eurasian lynx, Canada lynx, Iberian lynx, bobcat). And the game recognizes all the four lynx species as distinct animals if you use the full names. In general it understands imprecise common/genus names as hypernyms of the more precise species names, which is the correct way to do it IMO. In general, of course, even distantly related animals may share a common name due to superficial similarities – what is "robin", for example? The American robin was named after the European robin by analogy, simply because both happen to have a red breast. The two species aren't even in the same family.
- lelanthran 8mo ago114, here, because it allows extinct animals (sabre tooth, Mammoth, stegasaurus, etc) Also, things we normally don't consider animals - tapeworm, aphid, etc. Also accepted blue whale, sperm whale and orca :-/
- david-gpu 8mo agoAll of those species belong to the animalia kingdom. They are animals. So are starfish. "Animal" doesn't mean "mammal".
- neogodless 8mo agoHa I also got exactly 114, though I didn't think of literally any that you put in your comment (except a more generic "whale" guess.)
- cainxinth 8mo agoIt raises the question: can a colony of individual animals (zooids in this case) that work cooperatively be called a singular animal itself? I think biologists say yes, but it’s an interesting taxonomic boundary.
- eru 8mo agoWe think cows are singular animals, despite being made up of lots of different organisms with different DNA. (Much of the diversity happening in the gut.)
- Scarblac 8mo agoI think the bacteria in your gut outnumber the human cells in your body.
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- baxtr 8mo agoAFAIK, a "super-organism" composed of individual entities is defined as one where the long-term fitness interests of those individuals and their groups are completely and permanently aligned. For example an ant colony is a super-organism. That’s why it makes sense for a soldier ant to die for her queen.
- billynomates 8mo ago
- NooneAtAll3 8mo agothat's like saying tomato is a fruit in biological journal, sure - for practical purposes straight up no if it looks like a jellyfish, stings like a jellyfish and behaves like a jellyfish - then it doesn't matter what it looks like under a microscope, it is jellyfish
- bigDinosaur 8mo agoMany people now know that a tomato is a fruit, and will distinguish it with exactly the 'did you know a tomato is not a vegetable?' fun fact, so I'm not sure this is a great point. If someone asked me to list vegetables and they were being rigorous about it I wouldn't list a tomato. If they're not being rigorous about it then anything goes really - sometimes you can put things like apples in a salad so that must be a vegetable as well.
- moron4hire 8mo agoA tomato is definitely a vegetable. Botanically, there are no such things as vegetables. The classification of a thing as a "vegetable" is strictly a culinary distinction. Cucumbers, tomatoes, apples, oranges, they're all the fruit of the plant, but the first two are culinarily classified as vegetables and the last two as fruits. Also, salad is a preparation method, specifically the chopping of ingredients and the application of a sauce to make a semi homogeneous dish. It is not strictly a dish of chopped vegetables, so putting apples "in a salad" doesn't mean the apple is being used as a vegetable. You can put meat in a salad and it doesn't make the meat a vegetable. Tuna salad can be made with no vegetables at all.
- eru 8mo agoApples are not fruit in the strict botanical sense. > Apples are considered "accessory fruits" (or sometimes termed "false fruits") rather than true botanical fruits because the fleshy, edible part develops primarily from the flower's hypanthium or receptacle, not just the ovary. The actual, true fruit is the core containing the seeds, making it a pome.
- nitnelave 8mo agoI added "kudu", a type of antilope, and it replaced it with "turtle". I don't know the relationship between the 2, but it doesn't pass a toddler's sniff test!
- yorwba 8mo agoIt's a bug with the way this disambiguation page is interpreted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudu_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudu_(disambiguation)