Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a meme."

Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.

As someone who is a scientist who studies memes, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws memes. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.

If you're saying "meme family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Memidae, which includes things from rickrolls to copypastas to shitposts.

So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a meme is because random people "call the funny ones memes?" Let's get astroturfs and reposts in there, then, too.

Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the meme family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a meme, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the meme family memes, which means you'd call astroturfs, reposts, and other OC memes, too. Which you said you don't.

It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?