• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

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    Very ethnocentric of you. I first heard it from Stephen Fry, so no, not literally zero people.

    Also, it’s literally the first definition there. That’s the definition of the species in hemiptera. Just because you don’t know anyone who knows orders of animals in latin doesn’t mean we don’t exist.

    I for one always enjoyed reading taxonomy, especially because sometimes translating a species can be quite weird if you don’t know the translation and have to essentially hope that the yellow-breasted warbler is the thing they also described it as in the other language. Sometimes it’s another feature.

    But I’m sure you’d know roughly what I mean if I refer to the order of primates. Possibly the infraorder cetacean as well. Especially if you’ve watched Star Trek religiously.

    Stephen Fry on Insects, and the beauty of nature and Evolution

    That’s the wrong clip but i can’t be arsed to find it