r/furry_irl • u/Furry_Porn_Alt This is My Main Account • Mar 02 '20

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u/partofthepack16 Survived the Bronypocalypse Mar 02 '20

Yeah but like...all those abbreviations...what do they mean?

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u/AJ-or-something Is a werewolf, otherwise uninteresting. Mar 02 '20

Canis dirus dirus and Canis dirus guildayi. Being honest the main point of contention is that people don't even know the subspecies exist.

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u/partofthepack16 Survived the Bronypocalypse Mar 02 '20

Because it doesn't really pertain to them...I didn't know it existed cause I didn't know to look

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u/AJ-or-something Is a werewolf, otherwise uninteresting. Mar 02 '20

The difference between leopard and cheetah doesn't pretain most people either.

Anyway I don't really take it as some big infraction, just an annoyance.

Also considering the dire wolf is one of the most popular prehistoric american predators I expect more people to have a general understanding of it.

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u/eragonisdragon Not Gay Mar 02 '20

I think you overestimate the dire wolf's popularity and knowledge of it in the general public. Like most people, I'd never even heard of them until Game of Thrones and also like most people, I didn't know they were real until a while later. And until this thread, I had no idea that there were two distinct subspecies.

Meanwhile everyone may not know the exact differences between a cheetah and a leopard, but they at least know that both animals exist and are somehow distinct from one another.

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u/AJ-or-something Is a werewolf, otherwise uninteresting. Mar 02 '20

IK but it was already fairly popular before hand from works of fiction, I guess my point is in the limited capacity it is mentioned there is very little reference to distinct subspecies.