But they are responsible for saving a LOT of deadheads from a premature return to reality, so credit where credit is due... Even if their music sucks. 😉
This is a problem we only partially have in Spanish. Jellyfish are (beatifully, might I add) called "aguas vivas" which means living waters, starfish are called "estrellas de mar" (sea stars), cuddle fish are called "sepias" or "jibias" (a name related to their ink, apparently) but we do call Lepisma saccharina "pececillo de plata", which is a literal translation of silver fish, and the same goes for Scincus scincus
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This is the exact question my ichthyology prof opened up with. Someone says gills and oh but there's lung fish. Someone says scales and oh but what about adult marlin that lose their scales. This went on for about 20 minutes
I'm super excited about your channel taking off, can't wait for more content! One tip if you want to get rid of the ringlight reflections is to use a light diffusor in front of them
I absolutely LOVE your enthusiastic delivery! Pro tip from a complete amateur... If you move the light halo up a bit, it won't reflect on your glasses and it'll be a little less distracting.
This was randomly suggested to me and I saw the perils of language and immediately clicked. Thank you for the delightful video. ALSO WHERE DID YOU GET THE WHALE SHARK HOODIE HOLY SHIT
I've called star fish "sea stars" for most of my life because of a program I saw at the Bronx Zoo when I was in pre-school. They told us that the animals aren't really fish, so they should be called "sea stars," and I agreed. Also, cuttlefish "bones" are also used in jewelry making. I took a small metals class in college, and we were given cuttlefish bones to carve into to create a mold. Then we poured molten brass or copper (those were the metals we could buy at the school store) into the molds. The stench is unbelievable. If I ever get back into metalwork (I currently don't have a proper setup for that), I'm never using cuttlefish bones for my molds. There are so many other ways that don't smell like low tide on fire.
I was obsessed with Portuguese Man o" War in middle school. I love jellyfish. Now I want a jellyfish tattoo. It's been a while since I've been down that rabbit hole.
I’ll get pedantic for a minute and ask about rays/sharks. They don’t have bones, and I know taxonomically they are separate from bony fish. Are they straddling the definition of fish?
From a cladistics standpoint, if you excluded the Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) from the definition of “fish” you would be excluding not only them, but all the jawless fishes. This would make “fish” apply to the ray-finned fishes and lobe-finned fishes including the tetrapods, since you can't take us out of there. Does that make sense?
3:07 interestingly (at least to me) the House Centipede (they look like ambulatory eyebrows) is commonly called a Silverfish, despite the fact that House Centipedes eat Silverfish. :)
@@frankieloinandgroin yeah I thought so I just didn't know the English name for it but usually you don't see those in the video and while I'm not sure if she just didn't realise it would be reflected in her glasses or made a stylistic choice I think it looks awesome
I am begging marine biologists to adopt Actinopterygii as the definition of "fish." It's monophyletic, includes most fish people would think of, and excludes most things we don't want to include (such as tetrapods). We just have to get used to things like coelacanths not being fish. which is fine IMO. we're already used to jellyfish etc not being fish and they've got fish in the name.
I honestly think silverfish are pretty cool (though I am speaking from the privilege of never having personally encountered them), because they're one of extremely few insects that arent descended from a flying ancestor
Hey Jaida, I love your videos and your enthusiasm. It's so very cool to see 😎! I have to say, though, while your content is awesome, the reflection of your ring light is a bit distracting. 🖤😊🖤
Speaking of common names, i think it would be fun if you made a video about animals with common names that are mildly insulting to it, or like funny yet accurate. In Brazil we have a lot of birds with names like that, like what did that bird do to be called a fool? Is it that much dumber than other birds?? Also i know that one owl is menacing but did you have to call it 'devil owl'?
I sort of knew what the cuttle bone was but that's a much clearer explanation. And yes, common names ARE exhausting... and I have this feeling that common names in antiquity may have contributed to some of the truly WTF "fabulous creatures" in old natural history books. Especially in cultures that were fond of kennings, so that you couldn't really be sure they WERE talking about - oh say, a whale or just a really BIG fish. (C'mon, Jonah, was it really a whale)
I think we should just limit the title of fish to ray-finned fish. It's a monophyletic group that includes the vast majority of things people think of as fish, and to me it feels perfectly intuitive to exclude sharks and lungfish from being true fish in the same way that tuataras look like lizards and are closely related to them, but they aren't true lizards.
I don't believe chromatophores are colour "changing" - the muscles around them contract and relax which makes the colour larger or smaller on their skin and affects the overall colour (like... kind of like those old comic printings with all the colour circles)
Shame that Silverfish aren't actually fish. I would love to have harmless tiny wild fishies or other vertebrates native to human home habitats in addition to the house arthropods😋
It would be nice if the taxonomic names were changed away from the daily use names. Like there's fish and then there are _fish._ How about instead we have fish that include cuttlefish et al and piscium for the scientific group. I have a 15 year old son who gets all pedantic about this stuff, so I'm a bit bitter. Lol
Agreed, I like the idea of our homes being ecosystems of creatures that are not harmful to us containing things like housespiders, Silverfish and the like.
