The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets If we can officially have “thagomizer” as an anatomical term, surely we can have “butt fang”.
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets we shall always call it butt fang from now on...
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets
Butt fang, it is. -
The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
biologists are no fun
there is the term "cloacal respiration"
when they could have called it "butt breathing"
(yes, this is a real thing, like in turtles)
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
I feel slightly shattered that science didn’t already have that body part named “butt fang”
Opportunity missed…….
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Works for me.
No idea what that says about me, but... -
The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets it worked for the thagomiser, it can work for butt fangs
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets I aspire to have a butt fang too
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets I'm taking notes...
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biologists are no fun
there is the term "cloacal respiration"
when they could have called it "butt breathing"
(yes, this is a real thing, like in turtles)
@benroyce @sundogplanets The Germans do this better: they just make compound words using their own words instead of borrowing Greek or Latin. It is less pompous. But a thousand years after the Norman Conquest we are still embarrassed about basic Anglo-Saxon words, so respectable people use French, Latin, or Greek words.
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets i figured it was a thagomizer
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets wow what an immaculate creature
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@benroyce @sundogplanets The Germans do this better: they just make compound words using their own words instead of borrowing Greek or Latin. It is less pompous. But a thousand years after the Norman Conquest we are still embarrassed about basic Anglo-Saxon words, so respectable people use French, Latin, or Greek words.
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
Biologists, take note. The term "Butt Fang" belongs in every scientific journal, immediately. Thank the niece and nephew for this gift to language.
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The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
Absolutely. And spotted wing drosophila are sawbutt flies
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biologists are no fun
there is the term "cloacal respiration"
when they could have called it "butt breathing"
(yes, this is a real thing, like in turtles)
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When my Duolingo German introduced me to krank for sick, I was more than bemused.
So many great words. I have appreciated being the recipient of years of downloading Germanic language into "English" -
The world needs to know that my niece and nephew decided that the little horn on the back-end of a hornworm (like a tomato worm, or in this case an introduced leafy spurge hawk moth caterpillar) is called a...
Butt Fang.
I cannot convey how much I love this. Biologists: we need this terminology in the literature.
@sundogplanets Look, the thagomizer was named by a newspaper cartoonist, I feel like the butt fang can be named by your niblings.
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it might be real someday
in medical scenarios
and not with air but with oxygen carrying liquids like perfluorocarbons. like with preterm babies with underdeveloped lungs
the colon is a membrane. CO2 and O2 can diffuse across it
*not* efficient
but potentially life saving if your lungs are fucked up
If you ask how i know scientists got interested in this during covid when so many lost lung capacity and ECMO machines were in short supply
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666634021001549
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When my Duolingo German introduced me to krank for sick, I was more than bemused.
So many great words. I have appreciated being the recipient of years of downloading Germanic language into "English"Also the "be" in "bemused", is a germanic artifact. English words with the be in front are intensifiers or reflexive. To become, to bequest, to bemoan.
