Equally confusing is the hen of the woods, which is not a hen, nor, in fact, is it an animal at all.
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Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.
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Homo sapiens are actually heterosexual on average :(
With your help, we can work on changing that!
Only YOU can prevent heterosexuality
I've had to scoot past a family of mountain goats at 14.5k feet on a ridge with cliffs on both sides, and let me say that papa goat was 300 lbs of muscle and was definitely the GOAT!
I remember reading Safari Cards as a kid and found the Monkey Eating Eagle.
Turns out it's not a monkey that preys on raptors.
Is it a raptor that preys on monkeys?
Strangely enough it's a type of goat
so Ibexes are european "mountain goats", and are true goats, but "mountain goats", are american mountain goats and not goats. Okay. Fuck your english. All my mountain goats are goats.
So yall basically decided that since your fake goat was already named "mountain goat", all the actual mountain goats in europe couldn't be names as such and used a weird ass name for them. Goooot it.
Looking it up, the "ibex" name comes from them being from the iberian peninsula, which is true for some of them but there's goats in every mountain, not only in the iberian peninsula... Shame.... Shame.
That ended perfectly and I feel like one of today's lucky 10.000 after this, thx!
Methinks there's more than 10,000 of us
Today. Tomorrow's batch won't be ready until tomorrow.
Next you'll tell me monarch butterflies are neither monarchs, nor butter, nor flies
That would technically make them lies...
The Mountain Goats (the band) are fucking great, though, even if they aren't, in fact, goats.
Is there a sub/replacement/someotherterm for them?
Uhhh, you could try mewithoutYou, Neutral Milk Hotel, or maybe Cloud Cult? Those are all pretty close, but on slightly different axes.
I love that you just described the bands I listen to!
I took the Mal Blum avenue and ended up with Great Grandpa. Highly recommend.
I'm a little verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves, I'll give you a topic. The king cobra is neither a king, nor a cobra. Discuss.
Who reigns from the Court of the Crimson King?
Easy Money.
Also, those flightless aquatic birds most people call penguins are not actually that. Penguins are extinct.
What?!?
Essentially there was a species of birds called the great awks which most people called penguins, the 'only modern species in the genus Pinguinus' that humans hunted to extinction in the ~~late 1700's~~ mid 1800's. What we call penguins today were only named that because of their resemblance to these extinct birds
Ahhhh, thank you!
ok mountain goats aren't the same species as a domesticated goat but that seems intuitive to me. and they're pretty closely related...