Are insects animals?

[cupid_stunt]

It's OK to eat fish. They don't have any feelings.

Nor does anything that's dead.

 

[gentlegreen]

Nor does anything that's dead.

roadkill ?

 

[tendril]

Nor does anything that's dead.

lyrical reference that went over everyone's head I think

 

[danny la rouge]

lyrical reference that went over everyone's head I think

There's been a lot of water underneath the bridge since that post.

 

[danny la rouge]

Little fish I would say are fish not animals

What would you say big fish are? And could you draw a Venn diagramme explaining your position?

 

[tendril]

There's been a lot of water underneath the bridge since that post.

Something in the way you put that makes me think I should catch animals for pets

 

[tendril]

What would you say big fish are? And could you draw a Venn diagramme explaining your position?

easy now, we could be headed for Russell's paradox

 

[danny la rouge]

easy now, we could be headed for Russell's paradox

It's quite straightforward with little fish, which are fish not animals; we hit problems with big fish which are fish and animals, but as soon as we try to define fish as "not animals", then they cease to be fish and animals. So they should be little fish, but can't be little fish because they're big. And big fish are animals (as well as fish, which are not animals).

 

[weepiper]

Where does the cardboard box fit in though?

 

[danny la rouge]

Where does the cardboard box fit in though?

The little fish and the big fish fit in the cardboard box. (But can't be refrozen).

 

[SpookyFrank]

Animals are anything that is not a plant, rock or a microorganism. It really is that simple.

It's really not.

 

[wiskey]

Where does the cardboard box fit in though?

Bah I was just going to write that

 

[Corax]

Mammals are fungi

 

[danny la rouge]

Mammals are fungi

Partly.

 

[Corax]

Partly.

Everything except mitochondria, which are from cometary panspermia.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Everything except mitochondria, which are from cometary panspermia.

[citation needed]

 

[bimble]

Are aliens animals?

 

[Corax]

[citation needed]

All Races on this planet were seeded by different races of aliens, page 1

Indisputable really.

 

[Corax]

Are aliens animals?

No, they're fungi. Apart from the silicon based ones, which are sentient minerals.

 

[Espresso]

Any living thing with a circulatory system that pumps blood around its body is an animal.
Any dead thing whose circulatory system has ceased to pump blood around its body on account of it being dead is a dead animal.

 

[Corax]

What about vampires?

And ghosts?

 

[danny la rouge]

What about vampires?

And ghosts?

Vampires are mammals. Ghosts are more complicated: while not animal, they are the result of animal brain biochemistry, being the residual afterimpression of neuropsychological impulses left behind by now deceased animalian individuals.

Oh, wait they don't exist.

 

[DotCommunist]

Vampire (subspecies)

 

[bimble]

This thing is a real head-scratcher for the taxonomists.
Behaves like an amoeba, apart from when it gets together with millions of others into a single form which travels about, hunting and behaving like it has a mind.
Slime mold - Wikipedia

It also has memory, and can solve puzzles, which is quite impressive, for mould.
Brainless slime's external memory

 

[Orang Utan]

This thing is a real head-scratcher for the taxonomists.
Behaves like an amoeba, apart from when it gets together with millions of others into a single form which travels about, hunting and behaving like it has a mind.
Slime mold - Wikipedia

That's what the space octopus in the recent sci-fi horror Life is based on, I think

 

[Rubashov]

What about vampires?

And ghosts?

Vampire are animals when they turn into bats, but when they turn back into vampires they are monsters.

It's science

 

[Corax]

And octopuses are aliens, so they're separate again.

 

[Corax]

Not many people know this but - mosquitoes are, in fact, plants.

 

[weltweit]

Mosquitoes are bastards .. as are midges !

Animals both though!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Let's just get this over with right now.