#science is funny

[yung-chip]

laughing because homo erectus　

[scienceisfunny]

A fishy tautonym

This is Boops boops in a bucket:

Boops boops—the bogue—is a stellar example of a tautonym, an organism that has identical genus and species names in binomial nomenclature. If you're in the market for a parasite-ridden, gut flora-infested, hermaphroditic fish, B. boops is your champion. It should be noted that the bucket pictured above is not representative of the bogue's natural habitat; most bogues are found down to 100 m in the eastern Atlantic.

As a general rule, tautonyms are less silly—though Chinchilla chinchilla and Banjos banjos are up there, and Amandava amandava seems vaguely reminiscent of a Harry Potter incantation. It is perhaps worth mentioning that tautonyms are limited to zoology (praise Linnaeus, such utter redundancy is not allowed in botanical taxonomy). Botanists, of course, circumvent this by altering a given plant's specific name by one letter. Because Ziziphus zizyphus is infinitely more reasonable than Ziziphus ziziphus.

Fun fact: As if Boops boops wasn't enough, the bogue also goes by Box boops.

[pithypoints-blog]

"Which means that at one point there were a bunch of people flying hamsters with tiny erections to exotic locations in the name of science."

http://thebloggess.com/2011/07/how-did-the-hamsters-even-get-jet-lag/

This quote is, again, from TheBloggess.com, which means one or all of the following:

1. Summer, for the student who never wants to quit school, sucks because I am not around any of my friends.

2. Summer means that I am not around anyone thus leading to nothing witty to say about myself and/or other people I know.

3. I have to find humor from people who are actually busy and enjoying life right now.