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[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 68 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Fun Fact, pictured above appears to be a goat on a mountain, which is NOT a Mountain Goat because Mountain Goats are not goats. Mountain Goats are Antellopes.

[–] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 48 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Pfft next you’ll tell me water bears aren’t bears

[–] Una@europe.pub 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 20 points 3 months ago

"This is cheese sauce. Can you guess what it's made from?"

"Sauce?"

"That's right: Cheese."

sobbing

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The superior mountain goat that's actually a goat:

[–] Klear@quokk.au 20 points 3 months ago

That's not a goat, that the GOAT.

[–] REDACTED 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I got genuinely curious about this goat, so here's the name: Markhor

[–] caradenada@feddit.cl 7 points 3 months ago

Friends call him Mark.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

That's cool and all, but I'm cheering for the mountain. Geology rocks!

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

One of the most disappointing facts when learning English was how many different animals are just called goat or deer

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

like pronghorn antelope, is not an antelope at all, its antilocarpine, sister to the giraffe family. or the american cheetah, is actually a suped up puma relative.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's a common thing. German loves to call animals pigs or dogs; though it tends to be more obvious in German that these "thorn pigs" and "sea dogs" aren't closely related to regular pigs and dogs.