Birding for Botanists

3 years ago by fossilesque to c/science_memes

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The_v 35 points 3 years ago

This meme is incorrect. A botatist would have names like:

"Little bastard who ate my Alyssum maritimum"

"Fucker who at the flower buds on my Forsythia europea"

"Little shithead who dug up my Lathyrus odoratus"

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LongbottomLeaf 15 points 3 years ago

Correct. Also,

"Poops seeds of..."

"Nests in..."

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Bishma 18 points 3 years ago

Studied Ichthyology in the early 2000's and will never forget how much of my A&P coursework was on birds. And how the lab TAs were not at all impressed when I just called them all air fish.

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logicbomb 6 points 3 years ago

This reminds me of how Stephen Jay Gould concluded that there's no such thing as a fish.

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Bishma 9 points 3 years ago

There's also no such thing as a tree. Tree is a survival strategy, not a biological classification.

P.S. If you haven't listened to the No Such Thing as a Fish podcast by the QI elves, you're missing out.

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frickineh 12 points 3 years ago

I feel like even a botanist would know a seagull because their assholery is so epic. The seagull's assholery, not the botanists', that is.

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phorq 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, but don't give them the credit. I'll never forgive them for shitting on me that one time (botanists that is...)

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teft 9 points 3 years ago

False. Those are all drones.

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DavidGarcia 9 points 3 years ago

Bert

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idunnololz 7 points 3 years ago

Bart

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bert 6 points 3 years ago

Yes?

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ThePyroPython 8 points 3 years ago

Birding for engineers:

There are quack-quacks and peep-peeps.

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Classy 7 points 3 years ago

I call them pretty birds, unless I'm calling them a little fucker, and that's because it's a chickadee that won't hold still for 2 goddamn seconds so I can get a photo

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xantoxis 1 point 3 years ago

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