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or something, I'm not a biologist
Continuing a long proud tradition of "midwit" memes being made exclusively by people who think they're the 145 IQ guy, but are actually the the 55 IQ guy who found a brown hood.
Whales aren’t fish, they’re whales. There is no such thing as a fish.
Nonsense, we're all fish
I don’t know how many times I have to say this, I AM NOT A FISH! I am a regular tasty human, and frankly I’m growing real tired of these targeted attacks. You people are ridiculous. I won’t swi-STAND! Y-we stand. I won’t stand for this!
Guys I think this guy might be a fish
Guys, I think this guy might be a HUGE JERK FACE!
Dunno mate, seems like a dragon to me.
A dragon with a jerk for a face.
No that guy's Canadian I think
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Whaddayamean there's no such thing as a fish? I just ate one!
they're a berry i think
Yes but only when culinary, this is why it's okay for vegans to eat whale.
This tracks, berries keep their seeds on the inside. Whales are bananas and vice versa.
Broke: Whales are fish because they look like other fish
Woke: Whales aren't fish because they're in the class Mammalia, not Pisces
Bespoke: Whales are fish because any monophyletic group that encompasses all the fishes must also include the clade Tetrapoda
Artichoke: Whales aren't fish because fishes are a paraphyletic group that includes the entire clade Vertebrata at the exclusion of the clade Tetrapoda.
Stick and Poke: Whales are fish because they've developed the same bodyplan and are in the same ecological niche as the pelagic fishes.
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Look all I'm saying is Hank Green agrees with me that whales are fish.
Hank Green is great but good god the adhd runs strong in that one. Watch some of his vlogbrothers videos and count the number of cuts. It's like watching Liam Neeson jump a fence.
Maybe that's why I like him so much lol
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You can't fool me. I've read Moby Dick and Melville dedicated an entire chapter about how whales are absolutely fish
Cladistically speaking, whales are just a big colony of eukaryotic clones.
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all are fish i dont care
Ah that's the spirit!!!!
I know a doctor of marine biology who disagrees with your assessment.
Everyone that doesn't revel in their fishness is a coward or worse, a creationist.
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whales are fish because they successfully went back to the ocean and i'm jealous
Whales are mammals. How is the dude on the right even being pedantic and not just outright dumb?
"Fish" isn't a real type of animal, it's a term of convenience for similar looking/acting things that humans have lumped together.
Its taking that back to the medieval level of "whales are fish"... Which ignores that key difference of them breathing air and not having gills.
Calling something a fish is like calling something a tree.
you're a tree
There isn't a simple evolutionary definition of "fish", not the same way there is for, say, mammals. If you found the common ancestor of everything we call a mammal and said "everything descended from this one is also a mammal", you'd be correct. If you did that for everything we call fish, every animal in the world would be a fish. Also, we decided which animals were fish mostly on vibes, so without a clear definition you can pedantically argue that everything is a fish including mammals.
That's not quite true. A lot of worms, for example, wouldn't be fish, but all fish would be worms. Most invertebrates also wouldn't be fish.
Mammals are fish
Isn't that only if they are born between February 19th and March 20th? 🤔
Those are fishies.
people who fish have also always known that whales are fish. not sure about the welsh though, that seems iffy.
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