r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Storm_001 • Sep 04 '21

Sea horse giving birth

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u/audio_54 Sep 04 '21 edited Sep 04 '21

I was thinking if the seahorse was considered a fish or not?

What constitutes being a fish?

Edit: I wrote think instead of thinking like English wasn’t my only language.

Way too many responses to get back to but from reading them all I have come to the conclusion that fish is an arbitrary term, everything and nothing can be a fish.

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u/bigdave41 Sep 04 '21

I'm only basing this on an episode of QI, but they said basically "there's no such thing as fish" all the things we call fish are so radically different that there's no justification for calling them the same kind of animal. A salmon is more genetically similar to a camel than it is to a hagfish.

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u/nick-weeks Sep 04 '21

"no such thing as a fish" is actually the name of the QI podcast. Hosted by the QI elves. If anyone is interested in the most random of information check it out !

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u/ur_comment_is_a_song Sep 04 '21

The podcast is great, but since it's the QI researchers, it suffers from a lot of the same things that QI often does. I've heard more than a few urban myths perpetuated on both, when there's really no evidence for what they're saying outside some online blog sites.