I was literally playing Jackbox last night and the task was to sort animals by number of teeth. Apparently whales have zero "teeth" but snails have thousands of microscopic "teeth"? ok biologists, get fucked.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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If I cant knock them out with my fists they dont count as teeth .
That actually a good way to tell if it's baleen or not baleen, and therefore a tooth.
So if I can’t knock em out with my fist it’s baleen?
I think this is exactly how the scientists test for baleen.
Ah yes, the friedrich-weisbach test
So bears don't have teeth because you couldn't beat a bear in a fight?
I could totally defeat a bear 1v1
I could take on any bear in guitar hero
Yeah I dunno. Taken exactly as you've posted it here, baleen and teeth aren't the same.
I'm not sure I really care that much, but I think there's a difference.
If it looks like teeth, filters ‘barnacles’ like teeth, fits in the mouth like teeth, it’s fucking teeth. What is this woke nonsense
ain't that the tooth
The purpose of a system is what it does.
Or something, idk
sure
So you concede, sir? 
No but seriously, what is the difference?
Baleen is used to filter plankton, teeth are used to grind/chew?
is this not something that's readily known?
But they both process food as the first part of the digestive tract. It seems like it's just a minor distinction that shouldn't really require hard boundaries
And thats why ducks have baleen, and are in-fact fish. Monks was right
u/microfiche will never fool me
Meanwhile theres polyphyletic bullshit like crabs or flies out there made of dozens of different taxa. Scientists making shit up as they go along and we have to pretend their tvtropeass catagories about things are special. I CAN READ GREEK TOO AND YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG
"This animal breeds true across species line" THEN WHAT DOES SPECIE MEAN YOU ASSHOLES?!
Dogs are just less spicy wolves anyway
Actually no berries are berries and the only things that are berries are things that are not berries.
The only real berries are dingleberries
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