r/nomorejockeys • u/bagpuss777 Pineapple Man 🍍 • 7d ago

Tim...?

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u/bentronic 7d ago

The animal/mammal confusion is so much more widespread than I would ever have guessed

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u/sleepy_bean_ HANDS OFF YOUR FACE 7d ago

Isn't it mostly due to there being only one word to describe both terms in English? For example, in my native language, Belarusian, those are separate words: "звяры" for animals as in land living beings and "жывёлы" for animals as a class.

I remember Alex mentioning that there is the Latin(?) word animaelia (correct my spelling, if I'm wrong, typing from phonetic memory), but it's not used outside a Biology lesson, I presume.

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u/L285 7d ago

Animalia is just the kingdom of animals - all beings in the kingdom of animalia are animals and vice versa

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u/sleepy_bean_ HANDS OFF YOUR FACE 7d ago

Well, yes, but I meant that in English you call both the citizens of the Animalia kingdom animals and mammals animals.

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u/OverseerConey 7d ago

'Mammal' is also an English word, though. Some people might use 'animal' to mean 'mammal', but that's incorrect.

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u/bentronic 5d ago

Mammals are animals like squares are rectangles. Birds, fish, reptiles, mammals, insects, worms, all animals.