Or one could troll taxonomists by suggesting "bat"?
Quite the contrary! I read a humorous rethinking of taxonomy once (faint traces in my long-term memory think it might have been this but it's remarkably hard to google up anything detailed enough to confirm or deny) which subdivided the obvious category of flying animals into the subcategories "Things Which Fly Straight" (birds) and "Things Which Refuse To Fly Straight" (insects), and on that basis decreed "Bats are flying insects and I will not budge from this position."
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Date: 2012-05-31 01:31 pm (UTC)Quite the contrary! I read a humorous rethinking of taxonomy once (faint traces in my long-term memory think it might have been this but it's remarkably hard to google up anything detailed enough to confirm or deny) which subdivided the obvious category of flying animals into the subcategories "Things Which Fly Straight" (birds) and "Things Which Refuse To Fly Straight" (insects), and on that basis decreed "Bats are flying insects and I will not budge from this position."