Yall should remove some of these animal words and instead add different words for like the 5 different meanings of “spring”
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Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
How about “dry shelly boys” and “wet shelly boys?”
What about mine turtles?
Hello!
All tortoises are turtles (but not all turtles are tortoises) from a biology point of view. Tortoises specifically being exclusively land-based members of the turtle (Testudines) order. So there is a difference.
And “spring” doesn’t really have different meanings - as per the root of the word, it always means some variant of “to burst forth”. There’s lots of different definitions for the word but they’re all rooted in the same place, from an etymology point of view.
The season bursting forth from the winter darkness and cold, the metal coil as it bursts forth when released from compression, the source of water as it bursts forth from the ground, bursting forth someone out of jail, etc.
Homographs are the real problem - when two different words, over time, become spelled the same.
Sow, lead, close, bear. All have multiple etymologies where different words eventually became spelled the same. Those are the worst!
English is a truly crazy mashup of Latin, Greek, French, German, Celtic, Norse and more.
This is like the hare and rabbit thing… (what are the differences?)
As far as I know, they are totally diferent species, that coincidentally look alike. The European hares closest relative is the roe deer(?)
But Im not a biologist. Probably someone with real knowledge can say something about it
No real biologist, but no. They are 2 different, but closely related species - certainly closer than deer!
Ah ok, do you have some easy sources on that? Otherwise Im affraid I need to deep dive into the wikipedia. “Hey Kids, Papa wont be mentally around for a while :|”
I recommend a targeted dive into Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leporidae
Roughly halfway down, just above taxonomy, is a graphic of the clade. (True) hares are only in the genus Lepus, the rest may be called hares if they are big but that’s not taxonomy, just language.
There also is this helpful picture I found on the mammal page:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/OrthoMaM_v10b_2019_116genera_circular_tree.svg
Rabbits (well, the European rabbits Oryctolagus) are at the top left in blue, hares would be right beside them, as they are more closely related than the next animal group shown here, Pikas (Ochotona). Rabbit, Hares and Pikas form the group Lagomorphs. Deer are in the green category, left center, and thus distantly related.Thanks! :)
English: owl
German: Eule, Uhu, Kauz
French: Hibou, Chouette
This title sentence works multiple ways. My cat is unable to speak English, because it has far too many words beyond the word meow.
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The pedant trap has been set…If you don’t know the difference between turtle and tortoise then you are a monkey
Apes evolved from dry-nosed monkeys, so despite the popular wisdom, according to monophyly we are monkeys. Similarly humans are fish. The confusion arises because most people still group species by common characteristics (a grade) rather than common descent (a clade). Also known as Linnean vs phylogenetics.
I was just trying to set up a monkey/ape joke
No I’m a primate it’s totally different
I’m perfectly fine with that in my native language.
Turtle mostly sea living
Tortoise land living
Terrapin er not sure, water based and evil?
Terrapins move well on land and water, they have webbed clawed feets, mostly they live on fresh water.
