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>Be me; BS in biology, Education Certificate, BS in math, Masters in engineering
>5 years BCAG, 3 years boat engineering, 17 years as teacher
>"that is not an animal"
Over the decades the subject of discussion has been mostly invertebrates being called "not an animal" but family, friends, "intelligent" engineering coworkers, "educated" teachers, and other pathetic /b/tard level morons.
This is as basic as it gets in science, you have THREE CHOICES: animal, vegetable, mineral.
If it is not air, water, dirt, or stone, then it must be living.
If it doesn't have roots then it is animal, there are exceptions but those are in fact exceptions and rare.
Ta da it is an animal. Even if it doesn't have an interior skeleton it is an animal,
or an exoskeleton (such as a shell) it is an animal,
or no hard materials to its body... yes, fucktards, a worm is in fact an animal.
An octopus? It has a hard beak, but doesn't have roots, and it not air, water, or dirt... so, you unclefucking basement dwelling NEET of a lobotomize slime mold, it is an animal.
>school principal smacks an ant on the table, "Doesn't deserve to live unless it is an animal"
>me, "Eh-hem, excuse me, an ant is an animal"
Which lead this moron to investigate my "credentials", which just made him angrier at being wrong, but he got fired a few months later for raping a student, a very /b/tard thing to do. At least /b/tards aren't animals so they can't be "alphas"... and that is trash meme from a debunked "research" done by a zoo handler so....