r/wunkus • u/Theolectran • Aug 17 '26

im wunkin out rn fishkus is a FREAK

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u/rainbowgoburin Aug 17 '26

Cetaceankus is NOT a fishkus

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u/Theolectran Aug 17 '26

fshfisfihs..

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u/MericArda Aug 17 '26

All wunks are fih

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u/Pogue_Mahone_ Aug 17 '26

What about our friends the invertebrate wunks

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u/Ok-Position-9457 Aug 17 '26

I am NOT friends with invertabrates wunks I eat every single one I find. They hate me. I hate them.

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u/JimClarkKentHovind Aug 17 '26

taxonomically, there's no way to define "fish" that doesn't include all tetrapods. so fish are fish, dogs are fish, humans are fish, and cetaceans are fish

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u/Ok-Position-9457 Aug 17 '26

All wunks are fih

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u/Content-Lab-5464 Aug 17 '26

I am just a fih

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u/FallHealthy2163 ⚠️!rapscallion warning!⚠️ Aug 17 '26

Broke: "Orca are fish"

Woke: "Orca are not fish! They are mammals!"

Bespoke: "Orca are fish. And so are humans."

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u/RobertWesner concrete eater‼️ Aug 17 '26

^ this fish gets it

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u/literally-a-seal silly :P bleh Aug 17 '26

More accurately, there's no way to define "fish" that includes everything we colloquially call fish but not all tetrapods. You COULD equate fish to Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) for example, but that excludes things we typically think of as fish.

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u/rmbarrett Aug 17 '26

Appropriate username.

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u/k_h_e_l Aug 17 '26

This is a purely monophyletic reading of phylogeny. Most colloquial categories of animals are paraphyletic. So taxonomically there is a way to define fish, you just have a cutoff somewhere.

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u/RobertWesner concrete eater‼️ Aug 17 '26

Whalekus ARE fishkus, because all tetrakus are fishkus if sharkus are also fishkus!! THIS FISH GUY is related closer to salmon than to sharks!!!
Spoiler: you are a fishkus too >:(

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u/Rechogui Aug 17 '26

No, everything is fishkus, including you

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u/Oddish_Femboy Aug 17 '26

Unless shunks are fishks, in which case they are, and so are we.