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A bit of a flawed comic strip due to some taxonomic inaccuracies, but the punchline makes it a favorite for herpetologists.

An XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/867/

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[–] lvxferre@lemmy.ml 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

I love how it pokes fun at an ackshyually, and then proposes a monophyletic clade for arseholes.

...at the end of the day herpetology studies tetrapods minus the ones that ornithologists and mammalogists called dibs on. You'll see the same in medicine - vets treating all animals, except the species that physicians said "NOPE, I GOT THIS ONE".

[–] Devi@kbin.social 10 points 9 months ago

Small animals is a specialism. Like just animals that are small. Actually, so is exotics! So the same guy is treating parrots, reptiles, and monkeys. That's ridiculous.