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themanmaran | 29 days ago

68. The unique title texts are really fun. But I strongly disagree that "chipmunks are squirrels".

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jmtulloss|29 days ago

This is what I'm saying. Chipmunks are not squirrels. I will do my best on this hill.

eutropia|28 days ago

is "do my best" some kind of weird censorship-speak euphemism for "die"???

tzs|28 days ago

It looks like common names like "squirrel" or "chipmunk" that cover many different species are taken more as "squirrel-like animal" and "chipmunk-like animal". They are in the same family (Sciuridae).

Just be more specific and it is happy to count them. For example it counts Townsend's chipmunk, Eastern chipmunk, Siberian chipmunk, Douglas squirrel, Eastern gray squirrel, Western gray squirrel, and Red squirrel all as separate animals.

pdabbadabba|29 days ago

Similarly, it insisted to me that a pigeon is the same thing as a mourning dove. Not true! But your case is even more egregious.

meatmanek|29 days ago

"pigeon" and "dove" are both words for the same family of birds. The bird most people think of with the word "pigeon" is the rock dove (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_dove) or domesticated / feral variants of it.

pests|28 days ago

Well TIL prairie dogs are actually squirrels

bmitc|29 days ago

There are some weird ones. It knew red-bellied woodpecker but not yellow-bellied woodpecker.