Tuesday, October 01, 2013

Taxonomic Confusion

Misleading Names are misleading

And the Dog Fish is not a dog, the Cat Bird is not a cat, and the Elephant Seal is not an elephant.  Discuss.

4 comments:

  1. Sheesh! the whole goat-antelope subfamily that includes "true-goats" but not wild goats is confusing. To top it off the true goat link claims they are domesticated descendants of wild goats! Taxonomists are more like economists than we initially thought.

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  2. Also the Maned Wolf eats a vegetable called the Wolf-Apple that is apparently a tomato-like fruit. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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  3. And the House Sparrow is not a house, or a sparrow. Although it does like to build nests under my eaves.

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  4. Aardwolf! Even less a wolf than the Maned wolf.

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