Sea Creature Party

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Sea Creature Party
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Feel like a good sponge costume would allow you to pee right where you are.

I got the "Robert Sponge Rectangle Slacks" version from Spirit Halloween... but it doesn't hold water when pissing myself :(

Should probably come with a warning about that. Pretty disappointing.

I guess it depends on what kind of sponge, but I think in all likelihood since most sponges have no symmetry that this comes down to the same politics as an agender person choosing a bathroom.

Pretty sure from my B- in zoo that sponges eat from what amounts to our waste hole.

So you are supposed to piss in the punchbowl and drink from the toilette.

They are a single orifice kind of animal. Take a gulp of sea water, sift oit the goodies, and expel the rest

Yeah. ok. See what kind of biological insight a B- gets you?

Flounders are not bilaterally symmetrical.

YOU'RE NOT BILATERALLY SYMMETRICAL

It depends on whether it was a larvae or not.

In the tree of life, flounders are a sub-sub-...-sub-species of bilaterally symmetrical animals: https://www.onezoom.org/life/@Holozoa=5246131?otthome=%40_ozid%3D1&highlight=path%3A%40Apionichthys_finis%3D3640785&highlight=path%3A%40Bilateria%3D117569#x2913,y-2310,w8.2796

Edit: let me preemptively be a pedant to myself and say that "sub-...-species" is wrong because "bilaterally symmetrical animals" is not a species. Flounder is itself a species AFAIK, not a sub-species of anything. It is a *descendant* of the common ancestor of all bilaterally symmetrical animals. There, now *surely* no one will find anything to be pedantic about :D

Just like starfish!

I appreciate that information. However, flounders themselves are not bilaterally symmetrical. I have caught many dozens of them and it's pretty easy to tell that they are not.

Flounders are born symmetrical; eye migration happens as they transition to the juvenile stage of growth.

Oh, I know. It's very interesting. But when people imagine a flounder, they generally don't imagine a juvenile unless juvenile has been specified.

Isn't it referring to during development? Like as they're forming, they are bilateral? I haven't taken developmental biology in many years, so I'm maybe wrong.

They're only bilateral when they're very young. And even then, everyone is just focusing on the eyes. The body of the fish is also not exactly bilateral. Just fillet a flounder of any age (or watch a video on it) and you'll see.

They are born (or hatch too lazy to look up) and their eyes move later once they get larger.

Forego the illusion of species and families. It's taxa all the way down.

They're "differently symmetrical."

What about phylum neutral bathrooms?

What if you take off the costume? Humans aren't entirely bilaterally symmetrical (at least not on the inside) and obviously not radially symmetrical so the paradox continues.

Is any animal perfectly bilaterally symmetrical?

[Obligatory] Your mom.

Might be, but she gives it to everyone else

Their mom definitely got it... Slam! with the alley-oop!

TIL sponges don't do punctuation.