created 2025-04-03, & modified, =this.modified

tags:y2025animalsknowledge

You think of an animal, the general categories of a barnyard creature that are often simple, and the first things a child will identify.

Cow, cat, fish etc.

Then you hear about some kind of fact about one of these creatures, or a new species of them that is idiosyncratic.

Not a fact like something where you think you are the master of cows, understanding multiple stomachs (a budding cow expert, who thinks himself superior to people who see a cow as a cow.)

Really, you know nothing about fish, nor cow. You could spend your life trying to understand a fish.

And these are fish we are talking about here.

With some effort, every time you will be met with wonder.