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fishyfishyfishtimes · 1 month ago

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In hindsight, perhaps it would’ve been better to specify a group of invertebrates that sturgeons eat. “I like mollusks/worms/crustaceans, because they have no bones!” certainly does not leave much for interpretation, as it is quite obvious that sturgeons are not a secret group of one of the above. My worst fear is that people’s takeaway from my video is that sturgeons are invertebrates “because they have no bones” TToTT

#this is about my recent sturgeon video #it is complicated that people seem to already know the piece of information that sturgeons have cartilaginous skeletons #but then they seem to interpret the line “because [invertebrates] have no bones” as sturgeons being classified AS inverts by combining -#these pieces #when obviously thats not how it works. is a ray an invertebrate? no; it has a skeleton and a backbone #it is very complicated also in the sense that bone is both the word for a singular piece of a skeleton and the material #sturgeons have skeletons that are not made of bone. but the line in the video specifically refers to a piece of skeleton #bones plural and all #so you know. what can a girl even do in this situation!

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