DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
my wife woke up to go pee, so I asked her her favourite taxonomy fact. hers is that ants are either a type of wasp or decended from a wasp like ancestor (thee science is still out on it). and like it’s true, you look at an ant vs a wasp and they do look really damn similar, especially flying ants
https://www.onezoom.org/ oh, cool thing if you ever want to look at a fractal thingie of the tree of life. really fun little thing I look at some times. it lets you just keep zooming in down to the species level, tells you when things split off. fun little resource
somehow the inconsequentual nature about the taxonomy of giraffes is something that my brain doesn’t like. which is weird as like the fact that birds are dinosaurs is a thing I never shut up about, as with other odd species relationships, like cetaceans (whales and dolpins) are ungulates and evolved from a deer looking thing, I like this sort of thing in taxonomy
you know how like sometimes you know a thing is true, but you’re kinda annoyed it’s true and would rather it wasn’t? I feel this about giraffes and horses. like ok you look at a giraffe and you’re like oh, it’s a tall horse, I get what’s going on here, it’s related to horses. but no! horses are odd toed ungulates and giraffes are even toed ungulates, and their last common ancestor was like 60 million years ago in the early eocene!!
and like I know this, it is a factual truth, but I don’t want it to be! my brain sees a giraffe and is like na mate, that’s a big horse. the bastards are more closly related to fucking dolphins than they are horses!
my wife has never seen shrek and I still can’t get over it. no, she does not want to watch it
sometimes people can be born with a tail. very rare birth defect as we still have the genes for tails, and even grow them in the womb, but they ofc don’t usually give us tails.
wouldn’t mind a tail too much, but trousers and skirts would be uncomfortable with a tail to jam in there
