Animals with misleading names

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Honey Badgers are just a type of Weasel who's favourite meal is a Honey

the years I've wasted trying to get them to collect pollen and build hives

you don't call Humans 'Burger & Chips Naked Mole Rats'

sloppy work

@Natasha_Jay Silverfish aka Fish Moth πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverfish
Silverfish - Wikipedia

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Tick.
They neither make that noise, nor do they relate to an approval βœ…

QI | No Such Thing As A Fish

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Around here we have the tale of the lawyer who convinced a judge that mullet are not fish, instead they are birds because birds have gizzards and so do mullet. But fish on the other hand do not have gizzards.

Could have linked an article but why not a poem someone write about the tale.

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-mullet-is-not-a-fish/

A Mullet Is Not A Fish? ? - A Mullet Is Not A Fish? ? Poem by Sidi Mahtrow

Read A Mullet Is Not A Fish? ? poem by Sidi Mahtrow written. A Mullet Is Not A Fish? ? poem is from Sidi Mahtrow poems. A Mullet Is Not A Fish? ? poem summary, analysis and comments.

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@nerb @Natasha_Jay In the definitions section of the Israeli law regarding fishing it is written that: A "fish" is any water animal, whether it's a fish or it is not a fish."
@hananc I'd like to see a source on this, because it's pretty funny if it's true.

@wesdym it's in Hebrew. you are welcome to translate. see section 2

https://www.nevo.co.il/law_html/law01/069_001.htm

@hananc Ah. Not as funny as I'd hoped, though I'm not sure what I expected. This is actually not that uncommon in regulatory legislation, the world over. California, for example, has amended its wildlife regulation originally regarding fish to include bumblebees, which for the snickering public appears to make it look like they believe bumblebees are fish. But it's just the nature of such regulation, especially as it's modified over time.
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Tasmanian devil, not a devil, belongs to nobody.
@Natasha_Jay Great Tits don't have great tits either. I don't think they have any tits.
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Ak dağ keçisi (White mountain goat) not goat. it's an Oreamnos americanus
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Starfish. Not a star and not a fish. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
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Everytime I see this meme...
"Only thinks of you as a friend"
@Natanox
@Natasha_Jay raccoon dog. engl for tanuki. not a dog nor a raccoon. tanuki would be much simpler no?
Pigeon Milk β€” Rosemary Mosco

A comic about how pigeons make milk, showing the scientific truth behind Brewster from Animal Crossing.

Rosemary Mosco

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Hedge sparrow - neither a hedge or hedge fund manager or a sparrow for all that.

Honey buzzard - not a buzzard

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Peacock Mantis Shrimp takes the cake. 0 out of 3 πŸ˜†

@Natasha_Jay ohhh I've got one: #CDC Center for Disease Control and Prevention- Doesn't actually control or prevent diseases, still blinded by droplet dogma, hasn't updated policies for airborne spread even as #covid-19 continues to reek havoc and devastation in millions in the form of #longcovid. No one knows why they exist besides to hobble any real effort in stopping disease.

@themaskerscomic @Natasha_Jay

You hit the bullseye with that last sentence.

@Natasha_Jay false blister beetle. Is a real beetle. Has secretions that can cause real blisters on human skin.

@Natasha_Jay Rosemary Mosco is such a great artist! I love this one, thanks for reminding me of it. Here’s the original with much less JPEG artifacting (but no alt text): https://rosemarymosco.com/comics/bird-and-moon/misleading-names

(She has a fedi account but it hasn’t been active for several months and doesn’t have all her recent works.)

Pigeon Milk β€” Rosemary Mosco

A comic about how pigeons make milk, showing the scientific truth behind Brewster from Animal Crossing.

Rosemary Mosco
@Natasha_Jay A history teacher of mine on the Holy Roman Empire: It wasn't holy, it wasn't Roman, and it wasn't an empire.
@Natasha_Jay oh no! they left out whale shark
@Natasha_Jay Mayfly may not fly, but that name's kinda accurate. πŸ˜‚
@Natasha_Jay The Egyptian Goose is strictly speaking more a duck than a goose, although it does exhibit goose-like behaviour such as both parents mating for life and raising the young together..
@Natasha_Jay Wolverines are not at all wolves, and they're really pretty cute.
@Natasha_Jay @amcvittie I did *not* know that about mountain goats!