There is only one amphibian emoji

https://wonger.dev/posts/emoji-animals

by karagenit • 2 years ago

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deepsun• 2 years ago

And why dinosaurs are in reptiles, but birds are not?

geoffreypoirier• 2 years ago

Because they are not real.

shreddit• 2 years ago

Dinosaurs, reptiles or birds?

timeon• 2 years ago

There are also some overlaps between mammal and marine. (And mammal is missing human).

bww• 2 years ago

You'll notice I added four "food" emojis: the crab, shrimp, squid, and lobster. I have no idea why they were assigned "food-marine" instead of "animal-marine". They look happy, healthy, and uncooked.

On Apple platforms, at least, all the crustaceans mentioned are red and therefore look very much cooked.

pelagicAustral• 2 years ago

You can, however, eat crab, shrimp, squid and lobster without cooking them...

drjasonharrison• 2 years ago

If these animals are eaten raw after "it has been frozen at -18’C for a minimum period of 14 days". AKA "sashimi quality"

Otherwise you are risking serious illness. From either pathogens of marine origin or later handling.

Crab: parasitic flukes (liver flukes and lung flukes), roundworms (e.g. Angiostrongylus cantonensis) and tapeworms (e.g. Diphyllobothrium spp.). Viruses: norovirus and Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

Lobsters: Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus, Vibrio cholera.

Shrimp and Squid: many of the same.

Sources:

- https://seafoodbysykes.com/guide-to-eating-squid/

- https://www.cfs.gov.hk/english/multimedia/multimedia_pub/mul...

- https://www.vinmec.com/eng/article/is-it-safe-to-eat-raw-shr...

- https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40012224

dietrichepp• 2 years ago

It’s a common misconception that dragons are reptiles. The are actually mammals. For some reason, historical depictions of dragons depict them with scales—this is inaccurate, real dragons have fur, give live birth, and even produce milk. I think the misconception of dragons as reptilian has an origin in early European depictions of dragons. Dragons are not native to most parts of Europe so we can assume that the artists never saw a real dragon. You can see similar inaccuracies in depictions of other animals, like lions, leopards, beavers, and elephants.

You’d think the Unicode consortium would know better. Dinosaurs are also miscategorized as reptilian but I can understand the mistake, because dinosaurs are extinct.

owenpalmer2• 2 years ago

Citation needed

shagie2• 2 years ago

I am more persuaded by the research done by Peter Dickinson and summarized in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flight_of_Dragons_(book) and further presented in The Last Dragon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Dragon_(2004_film) ( https://youtu.be/NYY5ksNCjCY - with Patrick Stewart as the narrator in the US version)

card_zero• 2 years ago

La Velue, and the Tarasque?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peluda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque

johndough• 2 years ago

You don't happen to be the author of a certain science-based, 100% dragon MMO by chance? https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/p1ssv/dear_internet...

Your knowledge of the biology of fictional creatures certainly is astounding-

Flop73315• 2 years ago

Our dragons are all reptiles around here. I had to slay four of them last fall before they set up dens in the yard. It was miserable work, but I'm a good candidate for canonization now, which is more than I can say for most weekend projects.

FoeNyx• 2 years ago

Dinosaurs are also miscategorized as reptilian but I can understand the mistake, because dinosaurs are extinct.

Birds (Aves) are dinosaurs (Dinosauria), and dinosaurs are reptiles (Reptilia).

CollinEMac• 2 years ago

What exactly do you mean "real dragons"?

adrian_b• 2 years ago

The world "dragon", i.e. Greek "drakon", originally meant just "big snake" and this is its meaning in the stories from the Greek/Roman antiquity or in the Bible translations.

Much later, during the Middle Ages, "dragon" began to be used for translating the names of many kinds of animals, usually of the winged type, from the mythologies of various countries.

In order to identify the many kinds of "dragon" animals, in each case one would have to trace the origin of the story, which was the original language of the story, which was the original word that has been translated as "dragon", and which was the description of that animal, e.g. with or without wings, with fur or with feathers or with scales, with or without feet and so on.

patrakov• 2 years ago

Ah, I see. Probably, "dragon" is a misspelled contraction of "Dr. Racoon," which fits both your description and the records of their medical properties.

amelius• 2 years ago

Why can't we give every page on Wikipedia a Unicode codepoint, and let DALL-E draw an emoji?

owenpalmer2• 2 years ago

Sorry, as an AI language model, I'm not able to generate an emoji of the "September 11 attacks"

jncfhnb• 2 years ago

Flux got you though

Flop73315• 2 years ago

This is the kind of bad idea that I want to see.

layer8• 2 years ago

Looking forward to the emoji for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopado%C2%ADtemacho%C2%ADselac....

tgv• 2 years ago

Or the thousands of football players.

moralestapia• 2 years ago

An axolotl emoji is desperately needed, then :).

Flop73315• 2 years ago

That was going to be my suggestion as well. They're popular and recognizable.

chgo1• 2 years ago

Unfortunately, the proposal was declined in 2022.

List of all proposals: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html

jurassicfoxy• 2 years ago

I just want to say, I love emojis. I wish there were thousands more. I love the artistry, the stylistic differences between platforms. I love the way their meaning changes with the times. I love it all.

lelandfe• 2 years ago

They have also become an online lingua franca. You'll see this a lot on TikTok, which autotranslates captions, descriptions, and even static or dynamic text within the videos. Emojis allow users viewing these autotranslated posts to communicate to the poster in a comprehensible manner (even if that's just "this is funny" or "I love this")

Emojis are really great.

codeflo5• 2 years ago

It’s a regression to hieroglyphics. Six thousand years of cultural evolution down the drain.

mseepgood• 2 years ago

What annoys me is that they are unbounded. You can always add more. A script has a finite set of symbols and its relatively rare that its extended with a new symbol. It's just a job retention measure for the Unicode consortium.

bastawhiz• 2 years ago

I suspect many people coming here from companies with Slack will be proud to be celebrating the singular amphibian that's anthropomorphized as the unmistakable Bufo emoji collection.

IncreasePosts• 2 years ago

Why is there only one amphibian?

Because amphibians are essentially made up of frogs/toads, salamanders, and caecilian.

People like frogs, it is an important emoji to have.

Salamanders on a small scale look too similar to a lizard.

Caecilians on a small scale look too similar to worms or snakes.

So the only reasonable amphibian to have an emoji is a frog.

Flop73315• 2 years ago

Axolotl. Very popular and recognizable.

imp0cat• 2 years ago

These are amazing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFkIG9S2Mmg - The Insane Biology of: The Axolotl

cpeterso• 2 years ago

FWIW, iOS's emoji keyboard suggests the lizard emoji if you search for "salamander" (or "gecko", though it's not an amphibian).

madmountaingoat• 2 years ago

This glosses over the real crimes. 103 Chordates, 12 Arthropods, 3 Molluscs, 3 Cnidarians and 1 Annelid. That leaves 27 phylum unaccounted for at all.

nilstycho• 2 years ago

The Unicode Consortium is in the pocket of Big Chordate.

uoaei4• 2 years ago

"If there is a God, it appears He has an inordinate fondness for beetles."

karol• 2 years ago

Fascinating!

tantalor• 2 years ago

Snails aren't bugs!

riffraff2• 2 years ago

Wait, those two camels ain't both camels, one is a dromedary!

Tho the dromedary is the one used for the camel cigarettes, which is confusing.

PaulHoule2• 2 years ago

My strongly held opinion is that dragons are dinosaurs and like dinosaurs and birds are in the group Archosauria so I'd be inclined to lump dragons in with birds. This explains why you never see dragons because you never see dragons for the same reason you never see dinosaurs.

codeflo5• 2 years ago

AFAIK, ancient people finding and interpreting dinosaur fossils is one theory about the origin of dragon myths, so yes.

Flop73315• 2 years ago

One look at a pachycephalosaurus skull nearly had me convinced dragons were real and dinosaurs were the myth.

codeflo5• 2 years ago

Regarding the suggested categorization: Why is a dragon considered “grounded”? Why is a scorpion considered more “squishable” (good luck!), than a lizard?

wonger_• 2 years ago

Good points. I thought about making an airborne category, but there were too many flightless birds. I also thought about removing the dragon and unicorn since they're imaginary.

I just imagine that the dragon is too overweight to fly, and that scorpions are easy to squish if you have sturdy construction boots.

I'm happy to hear better groupings!

not_your_mentat• 2 years ago

Someone has to have already made a YouTube channel in which they eat every animal represented by an emoji.

PaulHoule2• 2 years ago

Lots of chicken emoji because chickens are important to people

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.180325

uoaei4• 2 years ago

yeah, i've seen plenty of rooster ornaments on houses, not so many turkeys or lizards

blendergeek• 2 years ago

I love this categorization. I do have one recommendation. Please move penguins from birdy to aquatic. As the seminal paper on fungi and bird fishiness demonstrates, penguins are very fishy birds [0].

[0] https://juniperpublishers.com/ofoaj/OFOAJ.MS.ID.555850.php

atleastoptimal• 2 years ago

strangely there is no “eating” emoji, depicting a person actively consuming a food or beverage. Why is this, when it is perhaps one of the few nearly universal human behaviors

sthatipamala• 2 years ago

“Nearly”. I think it is in fact universal.

NeoTar• 2 years ago

To be pedantic (which could be a slogan of this website) then depending on how you define eating, there will be a small number of people who don’t ‘eat’ food (I.e. consume via mouth), but must have it inserted directly into their stomach.

rossant• 2 years ago

deafpolygon• 2 years ago

How would you represent other amphibians distinctly from each other?

pvaldes• 2 years ago

That is the easiest part

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dart+frog+gallery&t=newext&atb=v42...

doodlebugging• 2 years ago

That's also the only one that is in French.

nnbvvklduwiw282• 2 years ago

related: https://moreprideemojis.com/

you don't need to be pro LGBT to agree with the logic lol: 29 clock emojis, 2 sexual/gender flags

There is only one amphibian emoji

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