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Mammals

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They're not warm blooded. Maybe they're flamingos.

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- And they produce dairy-free milk, whereas mammal milk is definitely of the dairy variety.
  
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  Is human milk a dairy product?
  
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- They’re not warm blooded.
  
  depends on the climate. natural habitat: yes. grocery store: no.
  
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  By definition, "warm blooded" means "produce their own heat" (obviously drastically simplified). I don't think it matters whether the coconut is on a deserted island or on the shelf at Woollies, it's still not warm blooded.
  
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  I mean, that sounds like poikilothermy to me
  
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They don’t secrete a filtered blood derived substance through modified sweat glands, thus not milk producing, nearly milk substitute producing.

Wild thought, vampires that drink milk instead of blood.

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- you mean like human babies?
  
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- Fuck. I'm a milk vampire.
  
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  Mampire?
  
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Neither Coconuts nor Oats have Mammary Exocrine Glands

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- I heard that in Sheldon Coopers voice.
  
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You can milk any animal that has nipples... but, do coconuts have nipples?!

I rest my case 😎

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- I have nipples @jarfil@beehaw.org , could you milk me?
  
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  Is not about the nips, but the mammary glands.
  
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Behold, a man!

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Mammals aren't "living organisms with fur and milk". They're "the most recent common ancestor of the echidna and the cat, and anything descended from that".

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- Whoa, so cats came from coconuts?
  
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  Then why are there still coconuts? Check mate atheists
  
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- You can milk a cat, that checks out.
  
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- echidna I understand, but why cat?
  
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  The actual definition is "monotremes and placental mammals". I just picked one of each.
  
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Nah, coconuts don't have the right kind of teeth and ear bones.

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While "having fur and producing milk" may have been the original description of mammals, biology no longer classifies things that way.

Today, all of the classification is based on Clades, which can be established by doing DNA investigation (similarity matching). So, "mammals" are defined as a clade. And whether somebody falls into it or not depends on their DNA similarity. And coconut clearly do not belong into there.

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Geez I thought we left the coconut fuckers back at the place which may not be named.

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In this essay I will

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gasp!

[ clutches pearls ]

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coconuts are plants and you're an idiot

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- you’re an idiot
  
  Name-calling isn't nice. Remember to be(e) nice at Beehaw. Consider this a warning.
  
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  JEEZ ok
  
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  But "idiot" isn't a name, i guess?
  
  /jk Sorry, I'll show myself out.
  
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I agree

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Whoa, so cats came from coconuts?

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Vegans hate this one weird trick

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