• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    I just checked. My own pooper is more or less halfway between my booper and my feet. So since I am a rept if I were a reptile I would be measured only half my current human size.

  • @[email protected]
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    142 months ago

    Biologists would never go for it. Nothing in biology is ever given a whimsical or off-color name.

    • skulblaka
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      112 months ago

      kicks Hotwheels Sisyphus under the rug

    • halyk.the.red
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      302 months ago

      Perhaps their tails are easily or often damaged?

      So measuring from full fore to aft might give inconsistent results among other similar variables for the examined species, such as location, age, and weight. Going booper to pooper might give more reliable data, if the tails are often snipped at the tip by other reptiles, predators, disease, rogue mohels, swamp boat propellers, or hastily closed doors.

      This is my best guess, I’m not lizardologist or a measuresmith.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 months ago

      I mean, it’s not the exact same, but human fetuses can be measured similarly with a “crown to rump” length. I have to notate this in my reports (but I include other measurements too like hand/foot length and “crown to heel” length).