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I try to stay up to date with basic scientific knowledge and I like to think that I'm cool with scientific change
But there is a part of me that looks at elephants and hippos and goes, "yeah those are the same type of animal."
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Pink elephants on parade
Aww pink elephants on parade
Elefante, fragmento un sueño a color
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Pachydermata (from two Greek words παχύς pachys, "thick" and δερμα derma, "skin", meaning 'thick skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier and others, at one time recognized by many systematists. Because it is polyphyletic, the order is no longer in use, but it is important in the history of systematics.
Cuvier's Pachydermata included the three families of mammals he called Proboscidiana, Pachydermata Ordinaria, and Solipedes, all herbivorous. They are now divided into the Proboscidea, represented among living species only by three species of elephants; the Perissodactyla, or odd-toed ungulates, including horses, tapirs and rhinoceroses; the Suina, or pigs and peccaries; the Hippopotamidae; and the Hyracoidea, or hyraxes.
Cuvier himself defined Pachydermata as "animals with hoofs, nonruminants", whereas Storr had described it as "mammals with hoofs with more than two toes". Cuvier added horses to the order. One naturalist has speculated that -
Baron Cuvier, it is probable, was led to arrange the horse genus among the Pachydermata, less on account of the thickness and tenacity of the skin, than on the slight departure from a true monodactylous character, which every member of this family exhibits in having vestiges of two additional toes under the skin.
Although the former order of Pachydermata is often described as an artificial grouping of unrelated mammals, it was recognised by notable zoologists, including Charles Darwin, as a grade of hoofed mammals to the exception of other ungulates; and anatomical characters support the affinities of "pachyderm" mammals to each other and to other ungulates.
Outside strict biological classification, the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, and hippopotamuses.
Thick Skin
“How’d you sleep last night?” “I didn’t.” “Again?” “Yeah, it’s not funny anymore.” “How many nights is that? “All of them. Since New Year’s.” “Christ. That sucks.” “I’m never getting drunk again.” “That can’t be it.” “No, that’s it. I know it is.” “It can’t be. That was days ago.” “It is. I swear to god the New Year broke something.” “Maybe it’s the noise from all those parties. I know you have sensitive ears.” “I don’t know.” “Are you stressed out?” “Yes, I’m fucking stressed out. I haven’t slept since Friday and I don’t see a clear path to ever sleeping again. Wouldn’t that make you a little anxious?” “So it’s not stress at work or something?” “No. I told you. That bender broke me. I’m broken.” “It didn’t break me.” “Are you trying to rub it in?” “No… I just… Okay, fine. Let’s just say the bender broke you. What if you had a little more?” “I told you. I’m off it.” “But if that’s what broke you, maybe that’s what fixes you.” “Nope. Not worth the risk.” “What risk?” “You’re pushing alcohol on an alcoholic.” “You’re not an alcoholic.” “Alcohol broke me, and that’s a problem. So I have alcohol problems. I’m an alcoholic.” “You’re not. You’re an insomniac making a false correlation.” “Don’t belittle my condition.” “Listen, Bo is an alcoholic. Bo is the one who overdoes it and makes a mess of everything. You’re not an alcoholic. You’re just agitated. Have you tried some visualization exercises? Maybe we could do some deep breathing together.” “I don’t have time to breathe. If I sleep now I’m going to sleep for two days. We have a show tonight and I’m going to fuck it up.” “So it is work.” “I don’t know. Maybe it is.” “Come here. Let me stroke your head. Look... you’ve just gotten yourself all wound up because we’re off the regular routine. You need to relax. You’re not going to screw it up. This is what you do. You’re a pro, Ziggy.” “Yeah, I guess you’re probably right.” “Here, give me your trunk. Everything’s going to be okay. Do you want to paint something? Maybe we can get the keepers to bring us a canvas.” “No. I don’t know. I guess I just want to chew some hay and run through my routine.” “Sure. That's a good plan. And let’s go for a swim after the show. It’ll be relaxing. I think it’ll help you sleep.” “Okay. Yeah. But just for the record, I’m still done with fermented marulas.”
