How Many Fishes Are Left??
How Many Fishes Are Left??
There are 5 fishes in the water.... 1 drowns.... How many fishes are left?
Answer
5 becuase.... Fish can't drown!
0, no such thing as a fish.
4, fish can drown, the same way humans can asphyxiate. Some sharks can never stop moving as there isn't enough oxygen in the nearby water to facilitate their metabolism, so they need to continuously pump water through their gills, they stop swimming they keel over, literally.
I'm a graduated marine biologist with nits to pick.
…I’m gonna need an explanation on that first point
Here's a more detailed explanation to it.
The TL;DW is: in cladistics (which is the preferred way of classifying animals these days), there's no way to include all things that we would call "fish" without also including all mammals, reptiles, and birds. So either people are fish, or fish don't exist.
Even if it could drown, it would still be in the water.