Posts that go into Lagomorph taxonomy

[u/callmedale]

I mainly remember it from tumblr, where unrelated posts will occasionally just diverge into a phylogenetic comparison of various rabbits, hares, and bunnies. There’s even a few posts with comics people drew. But even just in its simplest form like these, I just like when the main point of a post is comparing and explaining the differences between these long eared rodents.

[u/Canvase_San]

Ive got a few of these

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[u/Canvase_San → u/Canvase_San]

[u/MintyBarrettM95 → u/Canvase_San]

reminds me of when i had a brasilian friend who, with me, referred to strawberries in eng as "strawp"

[u/Canvase_San → u/Canvase_San]

Not quite the same but I think the idea is still there

[u/Short-Being-4109 → u/Canvase_San]

*the idea is still hare

[u/jonyssaur-Br-7980]

[u/Darkest_Settler → u/jonyssaur-Br-7980]

The words "minimizes" and "maximizes" are swapped.

[u/jonyssaur-Br-7980 → u/Darkest_Settler]

i din't make the image

[u/Antique_Amphibian107 → u/jonyssaur-Br-7980]

BUT HER LEGS WERE TOOOOOO LONG

[u/Top_Sky_120]

why you should join lagamorpha? we have:

bnnuy :)

smol bnnuy :)

I STARED AT THE ABYSS. AND IT AVERTED ITS GAZE

literally just pikachu

The Wabbit

[u/Top_Sky_120 → u/Top_Sky_120]

meet the pika

Give it a long tail, make it yellow. Voilla! Pikachu.

[u/springrex1422 → u/Top_Sky_120]

Now THAT is john mammal

[u/Belos147 → u/springrex1422]

No that's the moonrat.

[u/Viggo8000 → u/springrex1422]

No you are

[u/Fenrir_Carbon → u/Top_Sky_120]

Gen 1 chubby Pikachu

[u/the_marxman]

[u/1dankboi → u/the_marxman]

I’ll have you know that I was expecting to see this cat here because I was about to post it myself.

[u/xbertie → u/the_marxman]

[u/Naive_Jacket718]

the first image is giving

[u/SettTheCephelopod]

It's funny how rabbit and bunny just, are two names for the exact same species.

I've googled it, and learned there is no difference at all, they're the same animal.

But HARE does refer to a different animal.

[u/callmedale → u/SettTheCephelopod]

Rabbit sometimes has a different connotation like a wild one vs bunny for a tame one but it can also just come down to preference

[u/Belos147 → u/SettTheCephelopod]

It's why common names arent particularly useful in science.

[u/Totally-a_Human]

Lagomorphs are not rodents, but their closest relatives ☝️🤓

[u/WranglerFuzzy → u/Totally-a_Human]

So, for the record, a break down of Small round friends:

Bunny, pika: lagomorph

Chinchilla, guinea pig: rodent

Wombat: marsupial

Hyrax: a fuckin’ pacyderm.

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https://giphy.com/gifs/exNiHTfXz1L1xjopEl

[u/Hanede → u/WranglerFuzzy]

As funny as it sounds, hyraxes are not pachyderms. They are close relatives of elephants yes, but not the same thing.

[u/TimeStorm113 → u/Hanede]

Though that’s mainly just because „pachyderm“ is an invalid classification nowadays because of it being polyphyletic 

[u/Accurate_Mongoose_20 → u/TimeStorm113]

They are in Afrotheria and are in their own group and family, it being (group)Hyracoidea and (family)Provaciidae

[u/lolopiro → u/TimeStorm113]

what do they mean polys arent valid? love is love!

[u/Gaylaeonerd → u/TimeStorm113]

Yeah pachyderm is usually used colloquially for elephants specifically, but it's actual definition includes elephants, rhinos, and hippos, which are all very much not closely related, so its not a valid term at all

[u/WranglerFuzzy → u/Hanede]

(Technically correct, Exaggerating for comedic effect.)

[u/geosunsetmoth]

Related

[u/StructureMage → u/geosunsetmoth]

nah watership down had hrududu adams was on the same shit

[u/VstarFr0st263364 → u/StructureMage]

I thought that watership down was specifically famous for its lack of human terminology altogether. Like warriors still felt like they were speaking English, but WD was a lot more like its own language

[u/ionlytoptops]

crickets and hares both have the same crazy long legs and also the same face, like the only mammal that reminds me more of an insect

[u/Ruvis_Norako → u/ionlytoptops]

Some bats look like moths. Some are even pollinators.

[u/the_eternal_roman]

Bunny: “I wuv u.”

Hare:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjPKVS-9WZo

[u/dinglebellsdingus]

Zero taxonomy present in your examples however ☹️

[u/Petrichor0110_Alt]

Image 2 looks like it came right from r/nonpoliticaltwitter

[u/ScorpionTheSandwing]

Hares are technically a type of rabbit

[u/Gaylaeonerd → u/ScorpionTheSandwing]

Depends how you look at it

If you'd say a fox was a dog, then yes. If you wouldn't, then no

[u/ScorpionTheSandwing → u/Gaylaeonerd]

It’s not the same, yeah foxes are canines, which is “the dog family” but a fox and a domestic dog are in different clades. There is no way to make a clade of rabbits that excludes hares.

[u/Gaylaeonerd → u/ScorpionTheSandwing]

Dog and fox are both canids, in different genera

Rabbit and hare are both leporids, in different genera

They both clade together within the same family but in different genera, so they are the same technically but traditionally treated as separate