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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

no, but alligators and puffin.

my basic understanding is that people wrote intentionally advantageous descriptions of the animals when submitting them to the Vatican for approval or something. like they just stressed how much time the animal spends in water and not much else, and the pope wrote back saying "yeah that's okay"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Iirc the capybara thing was a special dispensation to help out indigenous tribes in south America

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"God makes an exception for you and your group, specifically."

[–] Honytawk 5 points 2 months ago

So they are ... God's chosen people?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

How do you know ducks are witches?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Who are you, so wise in the ways of science?