Nonsense, we're all fish

Whaddayamean there's no such thing as a fish? I just ate one!

Yes but only when culinary, this is why it's okay for vegans to eat whale.

This tracks, berries keep their seeds on the inside. Whales are bananas and vice versa.

Tadpoles are fish too, right?

And they even have gills.

Hank Green is great but good god the adhd runs strong in that one. Watch some of his vlogbrothers videos and count the number of cuts. It's like watching Liam Neeson jump a fence.

Ah that's the spirit!!!!

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I don't know how anyone could read Moby Dick and not come away convinced of their obvious fishness. Surely one's nature and behavior are more important than one's reproductive organs.

Well, yea that. I know Hank Green likes to bring it up and he’s popular, and it’s come up with a bunch of other content creators, too. It’s fun, technically true, and enough people don’t know it yet so it’s great to bring up in the real world.

Plus it’s super cool to explain how our eyes are built for the ocean and they had to get a special lens on top to fix it. Or how we carry the sea with us in the form of all this salty water. Or the whole swimbladder/lungs/guts thing relationship I mean they’re all quite fun, really.

I also like explaining that octopuses are molluscs and, because we say that molluscs have one “foot”, it’d be more appropriate to say that octopuses are really just going around the world with eight funky toes and not eight arms.

"Fish" isn't a real type of animal, it's a term of convenience for similar looking/acting things that humans have lumped together.

Its taking that back to the medieval level of "whales are fish"... Which ignores that key difference of them breathing air and not having gills.

There isn't a simple evolutionary definition of "fish", not the same way there is for, say, mammals. If you found the common ancestor of everything we call a mammal and said "everything descended from this one is also a mammal", you'd be correct. If you did that for everything we call fish, every animal in the world would be a fish. Also, we decided which animals were fish mostly on vibes, so without a clear definition you can pedantically argue that everything is a fish including mammals.

Mammals are fish

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Sharks aren't fish. Humans and all other terrestrial mammals are.

Hank Green explained it.