Comments on: The perks and woes of keeping a dorm pet

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:26:33 +0000

A mouse. A mouse would be fine, it’s got such a small cage that it could go under the bed when someone was in the dorm that shouldn’t know you had a mouse there.

But of course you’d have to clean out the cage regularly as they can start to smell a bit if you don’t.

By: Bill Nye

Bill Nye — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:05:40 +0000

The issue I had wasn’t really that they were placed in the “fishies” section of the article, but rather that they were called “the biggest and cutest fishes.” Honestly, if you want to specifically identify examples of FISH, why would you pick three mammals?? They can’t possibly be “the biggest and cutest fishes” if they aren’t fish to begin with. It seems ridiculous to so blatantly suggest otherwise and not even try to use examples that are actually fish, if you want to use examples at all.

By: Ms. Frizzle and her magic school bus

Ms. Frizzle and her magic school bus — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:07:15 +0000

While I think all of the above-mentioned people know beluga whales, dolphins, and porpoises are not scientifically classified as fish, and are indeed mammals, I don’t think the point of this article was a technical categorization of organisms. These mammal misfits were placed in the “fishies” section simply because, like goldfish, they live in water.

Thanks for pointing it out, though.

By: Bill Nye the Science Guy

Bill Nye the Science Guy — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 04:14:02 +0000

List of people who should be ashamed that beluga whales, dolphins, and porpoises were all classified as fish in this article:

(1) Jamie Wiebe
(2) Any editors/fact-checkers/elementary school graduates who read this article before it was posted on the Internet
(3) All science teachers past and present of (1) and (2)

Luv,
Bill

NOTA BENE: ALL THOSE ANIMALS ARE MAMMALS