That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.
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are more genetically compatible than These
and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues
How do people think that hare and rabbit are synonyms?
What do they think about ducks and geese?
Sheep and goat? Mouse and rat? Crow and raven? Horse and donkey? Snake and viper? Wasp and bee? Lion and leopard? Butterfly and bat? Teddy and grizzly bears? Fox and wolf? Deer and moose?
How???!!!!
Lemme go through that list of yours because it’s really funny
“Ducks and geese” very commonly used interchangeably
“Sheep and goat” its anecdotal but the amount of times I’ve had to correct someone on this? oof
“Crow and raven” do you really think the average person knows the difference between a crow and raven? they Do Not
“Mouse and rat” VERY commonly used interchangeably
“Horse and donkey” not super common, but yes I’ve seen quite a few people call donkeys horses.
“Snake and viper” vipers ARE snakes?
“Wasp and bee” literally all the time my dude
“Lion and leopard” you’ve finally found one! but really, only because leopards have markings and lions don’t. leopards and cheetas are often confused.
“Butterfly and bat” you’ve found another but not really, as that’s like a fish and a camel sort of comparison and i can’t consider it valid. a better one would’ve been “butterfly and moth” but the answer for that would be yes, used interchangeably.
“Teddy and grizzly bears” …are they like. not similar? they’re both bears..no like i genuinely don’t know are they not just slightly different types of bear
“Fox and wolf” you’ve found another one!
“Dear and moose” and going out with another one! nice!
I ment it as a joke, and almost cannot believe your average person doesn’t know the differences :O
Now on to my little list: * Hare’s have longer ears, longer legs especially front legs, run like crazy. Rabbits live in holes, hares lay in the field. I would’ve thought most people would know about this due to the popularity of the hare vs turtle tale, or the Easter bunny fairy tale which is a hare.
(hare and rabbit)
* Ducks and geese are most definitely not interchangeable, this stuff you learn at kindergarden? the tree steps in size of common water foil, duck-goose-swan.
Geese have longer necks, are genreally more plumb. wider stance, and a low hanging chest area. Geese are also pretty territorial and will attack humans, ducks are the ones that can take off vertically out of the water.
Duck
goose
*Sheep are the ones that give you wool (no you don’t have to kill them for that!) and goats are those fuckers that eat everything.
(sheep left just saying)
*Ravens are bigger, have feathers on their beak, which is also more square. but yeah this one is a bit harder. and due to the fact that among ravens and among crows there are already many differences world wide.
*rats are about 4 times bigger then mouse. have a naked tail. just walk about, while mice almost always run.
*horse vs donkey
horse have an all hair tail, donkey’s more a meat tail with hair on the end. donkey’s ears are much bigger. donkey’s are generally smaller then the ‘average’ horse. *there are to many types of horse to make it more clear, and they can interbreed so there is also mule and hinny.
Horse brown, donkey grey (in this picture)
I always learned that vipers are not snakes but I could be wrong on this one. Vipers have a more triangilure head, and all have venom. only some snakes have venom. vipers have foldable fangs, and most have scales with a centre ridge.
Wasps are the evil ones, that can sting you a dozen times. bees can only sting you ones and then die themselves and they make honey. Generally wasp have a far smaller waist (wasp waist corset hint hint) the yellow is more bright, bees have a hairy middle body. wasps fly in straight lines and stop and hover in the exact same spot, bees circle around more.
yeah pretty clear difference.
*Butterfly vs bat, I was getting humoures when making the list.
*Grizzly vs Teddy bear
are you serious???
yeah same, definitely same. I’ll give my kid a grizzly when it’s born.
*fox and wolf I added this one because I’ve met people who do it wrong:
Foxes will eat your chicken, wolf yours sheep.
*deer and moose
Does it look like a deer, but is it really really big? yeah that’s a moose.
tbh it’s really cool you did this list! yeah, a lot of people really don’t know a ton about animals, and make mistakes that seem obvious to people that like. Do know that. Lol. I’ve seen people call swans ducks! a lot of people think mice are the babies and rats are the adults! even with the pictures, the goose and the duck look exactly the same (to me)! and I’ve also seen people call both hamsters and guinea pigs rats (when they. Actually don’t look alike at all.) so yknow, a list like this is pretty helpful!
See, this? THIS is how you joke on “Thor being dumb”. It’s not that he’s actually DUMB, it’s that he’s ignorant to a lot of Earth things because he’s not FROM here, but also he’s a confident extrovert who’s going to act like he DOES know what he’s doing.
why do they always show cranberries in thos big pits n its implied its wet and possibly swimmable. do cranberries really grow like that. wh
You’ve never heard of The Bog?
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EACH ADDITION TO THIS POST MAKES MY BLOOD RUN COLD
This is a cranberry bog (unflooded) it’s how cranberries grow. Once they’re ripe, the blog is flooded and the cranberries harvested.
Basically by using big floaty things to round them all up and then scooping them out of the water.
thank u. i hate it a little less but the horrible little man in my head is still screaming “BOG BODY BOG BODY BOG BODY”, but i appreciate the education,
not that kinda bog. less peat, for one thing, and 300% fewer mummified Celts.
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speak for your own goddamn cranberries. new hampshire may not have any commercial cranberry bogs left, but at least our wild cranberry bogs contain 100% NATURAL MUMMIFIED CELTS, THE WAY GOD AND/OR THE MORRIGAN INTENDED.
[4-panel comic. February 15, 2019. Panel 1: Valentine’s Day is over Panel 2: and we survived it. Panel 3: The pile of nachos I attacked didn’t, Panel 4: but it was a necessary sacrifice.]
Cultural difference I’m starting to get a handle on:
In smiley cultures (like the Bay Area culture I’m in, and maybe also things like Minnesota Nice or Southern Politeness), being smiley and positive means“I’m okay with interacting with you again, and potentially open to eventually having a relationship with you that involves meaningful mutual benefit.”
If someone’s being smiley/positive/effusive, it doesn’t mean they genuinely like you, it doesn’t mean they’re willing to offer you any concrete thing now, it just means they haven’t ruled out having a positive relationship with you, maybe sometime in the future. And they’re okay with you continuing to engage with them, meeting you again, talking to you again, etc.
By contrast, if they seem frowny or severe or reserved, they’re mad at you, you fucked up, you are expected to go away or demonstrate appeasement behavior NOW, or else.
In non-smiley cultures (Russians seem to be like this, sometimes also Israelis and American rednecks), people will often be incredibly generous and helpful with practical things, without giving any nonverbal/subliminal signals of warmth or liking.
From my perspective, people like that seem like “scowl scowl scowl I hate your guts…btw here’s a bar of solid gold. also you’re dead wrong about that thing. but i really liked your work on that other thing.”
wait what. you act incredibly cold to me, but you give me this unbelievably valuable gift, at nontrivial cost to yourself? what? why?
and you’re really critical of me, and of people in general, but you’re giving me really high praise in a specific instance? what gives? dude, do you like me or not?
The thing is, in non-smiley culture, as far as I can tell, “I like you enough to want to engage with you at all” isn’t…a thing you have to signal by smiling or acting friendly. It’s set to on by default if they are talking to you at all.
You don’t have to develop emotional rapport or “liking” as a prelude to entering a relationship where mutual benefit is potentially on the table – you’re already in that relationship, as soon as you’re talking to the scowly guy.
Non-smiley cultures use actions first as a gauge of how much someone is “on your side” – they’ll be like “wow, this guy did something really generous for me, therefore I feel more friendly towards him”. Affection and warmth and smiles are for close friends and loved ones – they’re an achievement you unlock through acts of generosity.
In smiley cultures it’s just the reverse – people will only exchange acts of generosity after they’ve exchanged social signals of friendliness, and not signaling friendliness means I will definitely never do anything generous for you.
(People from non-smiley cultures often say that smiley cultures are “fake nice” – “you’re acting like my close friend when you’re clearly not. you were incredibly unwilling to help me in any meaningful way.”)
Adapting to non-smiley norms is interesting to me – it’s like communicating between two submarines via sonar or something. “okayyy…I can intellectually tell from your words and actions that you want to cooperate…so i’ll just brute-force my way through the stress of feeling like you don’t like me, and…yikes…tell you with my words when I disagree with you or don’t like something you do? like we’re married or siblings or something? before we’ve built up any emotional intimacy?? okay then…”
but I actually suspect the non-smiley way is objectively better, because you can cooperate with people way sooner, and with a much wider range of backgrounds and personality types.
^^^^^^ back home, smiling and saying hello to a stranger on the street gets you suspicious side-eye. Like, what do you want? Are you going to give me a pamphlet and lecture for an hour? Ask for money? What? Let me get on with my day, thanks. But at the same time, if you need directions or help with something it’s no issue.
Oh my god, the non-smiley culture is dead-on me, living in Redneck Nowhere, Iowa.
Wait really? Wow that’s so weird. I live in iowa too and we’re a smiley town. It’s small too, like around 15k total. I’m uhh,, central northwest ish? Around Ames. And pretty much everywhere around here is like that. Where are you at?
It’s varied in Iowa, TBH. Some places are smiley and some aren’t. I’ve run into both.
I’m in eastern IA, on the tip of the nose.
I’m def from a rural non-smiley town. “I actually really hate your guts, but I also can’t in good conscious let you sit here on a three day walk to the City with a flat tire and no food or water in your car, why’d you even buy a car, you know only trucks can make it out here, we don’t even have all our roads paved, god I hate you but Jesus says…”
Yep that’s exactly it.
Like, I’ll help you call a tow truck and stick around until it shows up, but I’ll also tell you that you’re a damn fucking fool for trying to drive your rear-wheel drive death trap of a car through a cow pasture.
