• kameecoding@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Crocodile? Are you guys from Florida? In Europe we learned it as duck beak, it just makes much more sense, where are the teeth? Nowhere it’s not an alligator mouth it’s a beak

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      2 months ago

      Nah fam, if your bird looks like that it’s probably dead. I also learnt it as the crocodile in Germany

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        2 months ago

        Duck, crocodile, they’re both archosaurs. Which means if it’s either, they should have a premaxillar fenestra on the lower jaw, but I’m not seeing any. Clearly, this must be a possum.

    • will_a113@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Nono, we don’t do math in Florida anymore. Also we’d be more likely to use “alligator” (tho we have plenty of both)

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      2 months ago

      In the pre-digital age when most of this was pencil markings, it was not uncommon to see someone had drawn the teeth in.

    • Talia@feddit.it
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      2 months ago

      I’m from Europe and I learned it as a wale (and I’m from southern Europe)