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TIL sponges don’t do punctuation.
What about phylum neutral bathrooms?
Feel like a good sponge costume would allow you to pee right where you are.
I got the “Robert Sponge Rectangle Slacks” version from Spirit Halloween… but it doesn’t hold water when pissing myself :(
Should probably come with a warning about that. Pretty disappointing.
I guess it depends on what kind of sponge, but I think in all likelihood since most sponges have no symmetry that this comes down to the same politics as an agender person choosing a bathroom.
Flounders are not bilaterally symmetrical.
Dafuq you say about me?
YOU’RE NOT BILATERALLY SYMMETRICAL
He can’t understand you, dude.
Hey,
Flounder!
You’
re no
t bila
terall
y sym
metri
cal!
Ah, thanks, I really don’t speak flounder too well. Really should learn considering how close to Norway I live
You speak flounder?
It’s a little hard to pick up, but it’s all about one rule: Everything has to be on one side of the page.
In the tree of life, flounders are a sub-sub-…-sub-species of bilaterally symmetrical animals: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Holozoa=5246131?otthome=%40_ozid%3D1&highlight=path%3A%40Apionichthys_finis%3D3640785&highlight=path%3A%40Bilateria%3D117569#x2913,y-2310,w8.2796
Edit: let me preemptively be a pedant to myself and say that “sub-…-species” is wrong because “bilaterally symmetrical animals” is not a species. Flounder is itself a species AFAIK, not a sub-species of anything. It is a descendant of the common ancestor of all bilaterally symmetrical animals. There, now surely no one will find anything to be pedantic about :D
I appreciate that information. However, flounders themselves are not bilaterally symmetrical. I have caught many dozens of them and it’s pretty easy to tell that they are not.
Flounders are born symmetrical; eye migration happens as they transition to the juvenile stage of growth.
Isn’t it referring to during development? Like as they’re forming, they are bilateral? I haven’t taken developmental biology in many years, so I’m maybe wrong.
They are born (or hatch too lazy to look up) and their eyes move later once they get larger.
Just like starfish!
Forego the illusion of species and families. It’s taxa all the way down.
It depends on whether it was a larvae or not.
They’re “differently symmetrical.”
What if you take off the costume? Humans aren’t entirely bilaterally symmetrical (at least not on the inside) and obviously not radially symmetrical so the paradox continues.
Humans are definitely bilaterally symmetrical. Symmetry doesn’t have to be a perfect mirror image in biology.
Is any animal perfectly bilaterally symmetrical?
[Obligatory] Your mom.
I… I don’t get it
Their mom definitely got it… Slam! with the alley-oop!
Might be, but she gives it to everyone else
Planaria?
Pretty sure from my B- in zoo that sponges eat from what amounts to our waste hole.
So you are supposed to piss in the punchbowl and drink from the toilette.
They are a single orifice kind of animal. Take a gulp of sea water, sift oit the goodies, and expel the rest
Yeah. ok. See what kind of biological insight a B- gets you?
Toilette du fromage.
Echinoderms:
