babyaprilgatori need a new question of the day in 20 minutes — i’m blanking
anyone have a good idea for me? i don’t want it to get too heavy, i prefer a playful vibe — earnest is ok, though!
Astrid@babyalligator is the caterpiller 🐛or the butterfly the actual animal? 🦋
@astridpoot i feel like i’d want some stats on that topic! it is provocative
Mastodon help us out here: is the caterpiller or the butterfly the actual animal? @babyalligator
caterpillar 🐛
butterfly 🦋
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a.@astridpoot but is the baby human or the adult human the actual animal? 🧐
StroomAfwaarts 🌱@astridpoot
In most species with two or more forms, the flying thing is usually shortlived and only there for reproduction. As beautiful as the butterflies often are, I still chose caterpillars.
si2mev #antifa lover@astridpoot @babyalligator The caterpillar is the juvenile and the butterfly the adult form, seen from the eyes of biology.
Feel free to have a different view if it is philosophical. ;)
Eugene Parnell@astridpoot @babyalligator Related question: in languages other than English, are the words for "butterfly" and "caterpillar" obviously related? For example "chick" and "chicken". In English that's an exception--we have tadpole to frog, calf to cow. Other languages--I think-- are more literal for most animals (I'm checking Farsi and Bahasa Indonesia which are all I know) and they're literal/related except for caterpillar and butterfly which don't indicate the relationship.
@eugeneparnell @astridpoot in russian they are quite different (gusenitsa- caterpillar / babochka - butterfly) and french, too (chenille - caterpillar (i think??) and papillon - butterfly)
i’m wondering if there are any languages in which they’re closely related! that seems like the exception rather than the rule
@babyalligator i remember a teacher telling me the caterpillar phase is often longer than the shiny glamorous butterfly phase, that got me thinking!