• remon@ani.social
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    8 days ago

    Take “Spider” for example, that is a fairly well definied term for all animals in the order “Araneae”. But that doesn’t really work for the term “Fish”. There a many dozens of completely different orders with thousands of species that are refered to as “Fish”. It’s a bit like saying “thing that swims in the water”.

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      My 5 year old says “thing that swims in the ocean/lake with exception of mamals is good fish”

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        You’ll get a lot of squids, seeweed, and all kinds of stuff with that, but not a bad start for a 5 year old. She’s way on her way to being a taxonomist :D