#Metazoa

[hasellia]

[enthusispastic]

Metazooa Stats

🐸 Animal #73 🦬

I figured it out in 5 guesses!

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🔥 37 | Avg. Guesses: 5.6

[beau-rebloga-coisas]

Metazooa Stats

🕊️ Animal #192 🐀

I figured it out in 3 guesses!

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🔥 9 | Avg. Guesses: 9.2

#metazooa

[thesparhawke]

"You can see yourself from the outside in an episodic memory. The new thinking about episodic memory [...] included ideas about what purpose this kind of memory serves. [...] They suggested that the important and useful thing we do with mental time travel is simulate possible situations in order to aid planning. These situations need never have happened -- they are mere possibilities, things that might come about tomorrow. Episodic memory, which looks backward, is a byproduct of this forward thinking ability. Why should we believe this? One reason is that episodic memory is so unreliable. If its role was to be a mere record, we might expect something more accurate. The combo of unreliability and vividness seen in episodic memory is apart of what suggests that it is a byproduct of a skill in exploring possible futures. A forward-looking faculty brings with it an ability to cook up pasts as well."

-Peter Godfrey-Smith from Metazoa

[tzatziki-boy]

Today's tetrapod mammal: Gundi. They're closely related to porcupines, compared to other rodents. Remember that humans are tetrapod mammals too!

[lace-monitor]

WHY THE FUCK DOES EVERYTHING HAS TO BE A FUCKING FLY, ENGLISH SUCKS SO BAD. SOMEONE END WITH THIS LANGUAGE

[vote2]

ohhh you know a nonfiction book is going to be good when half the goodreads reviews are 2-3 stars and written along the lines of "incredible information great amount of research shes an expert in her field if you read this your entire worldview will change however it all went a bit over my head and was not written with the average person in mind. do not reccomend" like thats just a glowing review

[girlwarlock]

slight pet peeve about the metazooa game--it has eumetazoa as a clade, in the sense that the game can say ''the answer isn't a wolf, but a wolf and the answer animal are both in eumetazoa!!'' but doesn't have any guessable animals outside of it. I know that--from a normal person's body of animal knowledge--there's only one animal outside eumetazoa (even though there are a lot of different varieties of sponges) but it would be nice to be *able* to guess that

[hasellia]

Heya I'm bored so like, what's yoir current favorite animal? Mines the olm

Ahhhh I love them all it's hard to choose... Sooo I'll say my top 2

The spotted tiger Quoll

(Pictured: A spotted tiger quoll, Dasyurus maculatus, curled up sleeping in a glass exhibit.)

Bunjeen is the original Indigenous name (from the Bandjalung language group) for them in my area. Was called the marsupial cat by colonizers until naturalist told folk or was missleading. "Quoll" comes from anglicisation of "dhigul" (Note: Aboriginal spelling is different from English spelling) from the Guugu Yimithirr mob who contacted Captain Cook (our Christopher Columbus booooo).

Since it occupies the same ecological niche as them. A good native defence against feral rabbits, but is vulnrable due to competition with feral cats and poisoning from cane toads. These Polka dotted murder balls are the second largest extant carnivorus marsupial. Live only for 2-4 years. The size of a grain of rice when born. Live solitarily, but will use a communal latrine to see who's in the area. Reaches it's teens in year one, stops growing year two, doesn't live very long past year 3 (；ＴДＴ). I don't like exotics, and the reality is definetly different to my fantasy, but I kinda want one as a pet. Maybe I can volunteer at a sanctuary or something.

(Pictured; A Spotted-tailed Tiger Quoll on a mossy log at night, by JJ Henson.

Below that picture is an Eastern Quoll, Dasyurus viverrinus. Eating a very bloody piece of meat with their hands full. I had to include it for the absolute gremlin energy).

Hoatzin

Stem-bird/Dinosaur vibes. Babies have claws on their wings to climb trees if they fall out of the nest. It is also the only bird to be a folivore; a dedicated leaf eater (foli, like foliage, and vore, which I encourage everyone to look up themselves). It's very rotund for digestion and stinky, like a cow! A dinosaur cow bird is also apt, because we no idea what kind of bird it is! Is it a pheasant? Ratite? Songbird? To my understanding, the current idea is that it's a survivor of a unique lineage of birds that survived the Chicxulub mass extinction. Our oldest fossils of potential relatives only go to about 30 MYA. Not even genetics have gotten us too far, but give it time. Was my profile picture for a time on an obscure internet forum when I was a teen. It is also the same colours as my favourite and oldest Velociraptor plush toy. (Razor the wild republic UK Velociraptor plush)

(Pictured; Top Picture of a Hoatzin chick with visable wing claws. Below it Razor, my Willd Republic UK Velocirptor)

[enthusispastic]

Took me to seven guesses remaining to get today's metazooa

I don't want to give it away, but it's a tough taxon! I usually start with a representative from that class just in case, since they don't follow the leading cladistics for most stuff under the class level I'm that group. That said, I got it in 7. 😝

[thesparhawke]

"Wild dolphins sometimes have a strikingly close engagement with people. A few years ago I saw a dolphin who regularly visits Cabbage Tree Bay, the marine reserve near Sydney [...]. This dolphin, well-known along those shores, is a female [...]. She lived on her own, after losing her pod some time ago, and does not seem too concerned about her unusual life. That day in the water, a lot of swimmers hung around, many just to see the dolphin. We kept a distance, but she would zoom in. She took a particular liking to a young man with red hair. When he dived down, she would come rocketing in and bring her face very close to his, repeatedly, so close that it looked like she was going to kiss him. I don't know why she singled him out for this attention. Some people seem to have a way of moving through the water -- perhaps a calmness, but it seems more distinctive than this -- that appeals to particular animals. I've seen this with Matt Laurence [...]. Something about him makes octopuses want to play, and they often end up crawling all over him. It was similar with the red-haired man and the lone dolphin."

-Peter Godfrey-Smith from Metazoa

[boreal-sea]

THESE ARE NOT PLANTS

I was going put together a cute meme about how seaweed/kelp isn't a plant, it's macroalgae. But to do that, I wanted to show a photo of some ocean life that actually are plants. The problem is that the first two sources that come up when you do a google search for "ocean plants" include multiple kinds of algae, as well as ANEMONES AND CORALS. CORALS AND ANEMONES ARE ANIMALS.

So now, the theme of this post has changed from "Kelp isn't a plant" to:

"NONE OF THESE THINGS ARE PLANTS"

Kelp are a type of macro algae from the Protista kingdom. Protists are not animals, plants or fungi.

Anemone and corals are from the Metazoa sub-kingdom, aka they are animals. They are also not plants. No, not even the corals that host photosynthetic organisms within them - because the zooxanthellae they host are protists, like the kelp.

[milksockets]

‘exo metazoa,’ 2016 - yul tomatala

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Birds are class Aves.

Sure, under Linnaean taxonomy. But, well,

A) Linnaeus was a eugenecist so his scientific opinions are suspect and his morality is awful

B) he didn't know about evolution

C) he didn't know about prehistoric life

so his classification system? Sucks ass. It doesn't work anymore. It no longer reflects the diversity of life.

Instead, scientists - almost across the board, now - use Clades, or evolutionary relationships. No rankings, no hierarchies, just clades. It allows us to properly place prehistoric life, it removes our reliance on traits (which are almost always arbitrary) in classifying organisms, and allows us to communicate the history of life just by talking about their relationships.

So, for your own edification, here's the full classification of birds as we currently know it, from biggest to smallest:

Biota/Earth-Based Life

Archaeans

Proteoarchaeota

Asgardians (Eukaryomorphans)

Eukaryota (note: Proteobacteria were added to an asgardian Eukaryote to form mitochondria)

Amorphea

Obazoa

Opisthokonts

Holozoa

Filozoa

Choanozoa

Metazoa (Animals)

ParaHoxozoa (Hox genes show up)

Planulozoa

Bilateria (all bilateran animals)

Nephrozoa

Deuterostomia (Deuterostomes)

Chordata (Chordates)

Olfactores

Vertebrata (Vertebrates)

Gnathostomata (Jawed Vertebrates)

Eugnathostomata

Osteichthyes (Bony Vertebrates)

Sarcopterygii (Lobe-Finned Fish)

Rhipidistia

Tetrapodomorpha

Eotetrapodiformes

Elpistostegalia

Stegocephalia

Tetrapoda (Tetrapods)

Reptiliomorpha

Amniota (animals that lay amniotic eggs, or evolved from ones that did)

Sauropsida/Reptilia (reptiles sensu lato)

Eureptilia

Diapsida

Neodiapsida

Sauria (reptiles sensu stricto)

Archelosauria

Archosauromorpha

Crocopoda

Archosauriformes

Eucrocopoda

Crurotarsi

Archosauria

Avemetatarsalia (Bird-line Archosaurs, birds sensu lato)

Ornithodira (Appearance of feathers, warm bloodedness)

Dinosauromorpha

Dinosauriformes

Dracohors

Dinosauria (fully upright posture; All Dinosaurs)

Saurischia (bird like bones & lungs)

Eusaurischia

Theropoda (permanently bipedal group)

Neotheropoda

Averostra

Tetanurae

Orionides

Avetheropoda

Coelurosauria

Tyrannoraptora

Maniraptoromorpha

Neocoelurosauria

Maniraptoriformes (feathered wings on arms)

Maniraptora

Pennaraptora

Paraves (fully sized winges, probable flighted ancestor)

Avialae

Avebrevicauda

Pygostylia (bird tails)

Ornithothoraces

Euornithes (wing configuration like modern birds)

Ornithuromorpha

Ornithurae

Neornithes (modern birds, with fully modern bird beaks)

idk if this was a gotcha, trying to be helpful, or genuine confusion, but here you go.

all of this, ftr, is on wikipedia, and you could have looked it up yourself.

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i am going to finish migrations and immediately read immersion by abbie gascho landis

[o-ceti]

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