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The mountain goats aren't actual goats (files.catbox.moe)
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[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 7 points 4 months ago

Also, those flightless aquatic birds most people call penguins are not actually that. Penguins are extinct.

[-] devdoggy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

What?!?

[-] roz 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Essentially there was a species of birds called the great awks which most people called penguins, the 'only modern species in the genus Pinguinus' that humans hunted to extinction in the ~~late 1700's~~ mid 1800's. What we call penguins today were only named that because of their resemblance to these extinct birds

[-] devdoggy@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Ahhhh, thank you!

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