Jokes Only a Zoochatter Would Understand

Everyone seems to have an opinion of people who track fishes and invertebrates on their life list. These are the two opinions you may most commonly encounter:

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(As someone that tracks both fishes and invertebrates, I think I'm a bit of both of these honestly.)
 
I think that make a life list excluding almost all life from it is totally weird. That never could be called a "life list", just a "tetrapod list".
 
Kakapo said:
I think that make a life list excluding almost all life from it is totally weird. That never could be called a "life list", just a "tetrapod list".
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So are you saying that if you were to keep a life list you would include every plant, fungi, and bacteria you ever see?
 
That would be a proper life list, tough people usually don't see bacteria (except the few species that form macroscopic colonies, such as Nostoc). I don't keep track a life list for other than animals, but I don't call it a lifelist but a wild animal sighting list :P anyway excluding the other kingdoms seems more reasonable than excluding random animal groups except very few selected ones :P
 
Kakapo said:
That would be a proper life list, tough people usually don't see bacteria (except the few species that form macroscopic colonies, such as Nostoc). I don't keep track a life list for other than animals, but I don't call it a lifelist but a wild animal sighting list :p anyway excluding the other kingdoms seems more reasonable than excluding random animal groups except very few selected ones :p
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But what if you see it captive? :p ;) Or if it's a domesticated animal? :D

~Thylo
 
That would change the things, as the invertebrates are a minor part of captive stock in zoos, and fishes are often not kept at all (if we don't count aquariums), thus there is a reason for be neglected. I misunderstood for a wild lifelist, sorry.
 
Kakapo said:
I think that make a life list excluding almost all life from it is totally weird. That never could be called a "life list", just a "tetrapod list".
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The word "life" in "life list" isn't referring to "life on Earth" though - it is referring to the individual person's lifetime. That is, "a list of [whichever taxa they record] seen during their life".

The vast majority of people in the world who keep a life list would probably be doing it solely for birds, because it is from the birding world that the term originated.
 
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