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/

Edit: spelling

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
    251·
    10 months ago

    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·
      10 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.