Fun facts:
- Seals are far more closely related to raccoons and cheetahs than they are to elephants.
- Elephants are far more closely related to sea cows and hyraxes than they are to seals, raccoons, and cheetahs.
Hope that makes your day nicer.
this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2026
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Is there a visual graph for navigating animal genomes by "hopping" between them? Or like an ancestry tree?
You're thinking of a phylogenetic tree, and whereas I can't think of "jumping" between various points in a way that's pragmatic, there is something like OneZoom. (Edit: Be careful if you have motion sickness.)
Ideally you're just looking at a tree of the taxon at the lowest level you can, in this case class Mammalia. (Technically infraclass Placentalia, but it's cooler if you look at mammals as a whole.)
Here's a game that challenges your knowledge of taxonomy
🐩 Animal #1119 🕊️
I figured it out in 12 guesses!
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🔥 1 | Avg. Guesses: 12
That was fun, but I wouldn't be able to do this without Wikipedia.
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https://metazooa.com/ #metazooa
Today's was unusually hard. I usually get it way faster. Fucking birds.
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That's a cool game, but I skipped too many biology classes, so I also needed wiki's help to complete it
I love this. Thanks for the link!
I wasn't sure what a hyrax was so I looked it up.
What a terrible day to have eyes
I don't want to be a dink but, like, the photo is right there! And in that photo is an animal without tusks. So why did the cartoonist draw a walrus? Walrus aren't sea lions.
It's so stupid I downvoted (the OP). Sorry, but also not sorry.
This is sort of good I guess for some enrichment, but I went to the Vancouver aquarium a decade ago and it was sad. The dolphins /whales in the tank just did the exact round trip of their environment over and over, with same twist , rollover and turn every time. I watched for half hour and it was an unbroken loop of the exact motion. Those animals were losing their minds in there. When family came to visit and insisted on going I just dropped them off and said call me when you are done and just drove around Vancouver for an hour. I couldn't see that again.
Ditto for me. It's really, really sad and I've never wanted to go back since.
Is that glass even transparent where the sea lion could see the elephant or is it one-way glass?
No, the sea lion can see out. That's the fun, they can actually interact with the people, if they want to. Some do, some don't.
These kinds of tanks are common in big aquariums like Sea World.
Gotcha. Thanks for the reply!
I guess I was thinking like the water arch type tanks are mirrored so I wasn’t sure if all aquariums were. You know the ones with sharks you walk under
Are they though?
Sea lions don't have tusks.