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[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 months ago
[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

Yep, this had me confused because Ailuropoda is the panda family.

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I mean red pandas are pretty cat like.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

FWIW the suffix -poda means "feet." So the panda family's name literally translates as "cat-like-feet"! ๐Ÿฑ ๐Ÿฆถ

[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Wow! My mind, if not blown has been somewhat stirred by this information.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 2 months ago

The prefix ailuro- does mean cat, in much the same way that the word "felis" means cat.

But I'm not enough of a pedant to try to argue the point though -- in our crazy, anything goes modern world, people use whole words in place of prefixes all the time, and that's okay: languages change! Just like ailuro- used to be Greek, and then got pulled into Latin! ๐Ÿ˜†

[-] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

I guess it makes sense to use Latin in scientific names given how redundant it is.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

Just wanted to say that I love these every time I see them, so thank you for sharing them so regularly!

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 7 points 2 months ago

Thank you! I'm a big fan of Grant Snider's work, and I'm happy to share it with others :)

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If I had a nickel for every post I saw today about oxbows, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

For some reason a perfectly fine river will often insist on forming and oxbow and complete ruining a straight path :/

this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2024
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