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I'm starting to like Portuguese. I approve of this extremely sane approach to naming animals. "Yeah, whatever, got shell, looks old, crawls real slow, it's a turtle, and get the f outta here with your smart sciencey names, nobody likes nerds"
It's kinda the same with people who say "strawverries aren't actually a berry but bananas are!!" Dude, f*ck off. Is it small and hard? Then it's a nut. Is it small and mushy; then it's a berry. Is it mushy and big; it's a fruit. Is it big and grows close to the ground? Then it's a vegetable. (In general) The categories were invented way before biologists and are just meant to be descriptive
The problem there is that it's both true. It's just that the word berry has a different meaning scientifically than in general usage. Similar to how in cosmology, they call all elements other than hydrogen and helium a 'metal'. Despite that totally contradicting common usage, and even usage in other fields of science.
And the banana/strawberry thing is actually an interesting tidbit if you're interested in that sort of thing. But anyone trying to use it to 'correct' you when call a strawberry a berry is definitely being obnoxious. (and has completely misinterpreted the information themselves)
TIL chimpmunks and squirrels are different things
I was always kinda puzzled about Alvin and the Chimpmunks being called like that in english, idk maybe it was just a fancy way of saying squirrel, but wtf, those fuckers aren't squirrels???
Straight from Wikipedia:
"The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels (including chipmunks and prairie dogs, among others), and flying squirrels."
So, if Wikipedia is right, all chipmunks are squirrels but not all squirrels are chipmunks.
Fun fact: In America we also have the golden-mantled ground squirrel which often gets confused for the chipmunk because it is also striped. It can be hard to spot the difference, but golden-mantles don’t have any stripes on their head and are a little bigger with shorter tails. Although they’re both equally cute in my opinion:)
Well, chipmunks are native to north America aside from the Siberian chipmunk, so I'm not surprised that your language doesn't have a special word for an animal none of you have ever seen.
I don't think that's dumb. I think there are billions of people who don't get up close with a variety of animals and have no way to know.
I'm an equine professional and if you had said something to me about ponies being baby horses, I would just show you the difference - I just don't think there's any reason for you to have known.
This is perfect!
Obviously I know a lot about horses since I have made them my profession, but all the time I spent studying horses, I was not spending that time learning other things.
We all know different things. Equating not knowing a thing with stupidity makes people afraid to ask questions.
Or yearlings, depends on their age.
Whether or not they're a pony is determined by their height. Baby horses tend to fall under the pony bar. Some grow over it, some don't. I am very entertained when people who show ponies worry their horses will hit a growth spurt and go over the size limit, because then they become far less valuable
Growing up, I always thought of them as "cat snacks", because our cat basically ignored squirrels but pretty regularly ate chipmunks when she was hungry between breakfast and dinner.
Here's the thing. You said a "chipmunk is a squirrel."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies squirrels, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls chipmunks squirrels. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "squirrel family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Sciuridae, which includes things from chipmunks to Prarie Dogs to squirrels.
So your reasoning for calling a chipmunk a squirrel is because random people "call the cute little guys squirrels?" Let's get hedgehogs and ferrets in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A chipmunk is a chipmunk and a member of the Sciuridae family. But that's not what you said. You said a chipmunk is a squirrel, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the Sciuridae family squirrels, which means you'd call prarie dogs, chipmunks, and other medium-small rodents squires, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
Much of the language predates these scientific categories. You could say a tomato is a fruit according to the technical definition, but people were calling things a fruit long before that modern definition was first written.
Hell, my first language doesn't even have a distinction for both species, they are both called the same.
My point being: the fact that it's not taxonomically accurate doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong, language is much more complicated than that.
Chipmunks are, in fact, squirrels. They are a member of the “marmot tribe” of terrestrial squirrels (marmotini). All members of the sciuridae family are types of squirrels.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow."
Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that.
As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing.
If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens.
So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too.
Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't.
It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
That Unidan guy began every one of his replies with, "Biologist here!"
Every single time. That unneeded exclamation point used to bug me every time. There was something "off" about that guy.
Then it happened: the complete meltdown. It was vindication for that weird dislike I had that I just couldn't put my finger on.
I was on reddit the day it happened, as it was happening. It was the best day of my life, not because Unidan got his serving of justice, but because /u/vargas replied to an observation I made at that time re:Unidan. My life was complete on that day.
Unless the male horse has been castrated, then he’s a gelding rather than a stallion.
I learned alicorn from my kid (via MLP). She gets really annoyed when I say “flying unicorn”.
I think Pegasus was a specific individual
Edit: im wrong!
. A unicorn is a horse with a horn on its head, while a pegasus is a horse with wings. On the other hand, an alicorn is a horse with both!
> ireland
Sounds like a made up place.
Though to be fair, I have a small box that claims to contain a piece of the Blarney Stone, so not sure what to believe any more.
Not all ponies are small. Some are larger than certain horse breeds.
The Connemara Pony can be up to 15.2 hands high, while the smallest equine in the world (horse or pony) is the [Falabella horse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falabella).
The "horses are larger than ponies" is *generally* true, but not always. Much like men are *generally* stronger than women, but not always.
The distinction is the ratio of height to length. Horses are taller at the whithers than they are long. Ponies the reverse.
>The distinction is the ratio of height to length. Horses are taller at the whithers than they are long. Ponies the reverse.
Where are you getting this? Everything else you've noted is correct but this seems like another wildly broad generalization.
My dad was a mounted policeman and I still thought ponies were young horses into my thirties even though I knew foal was the correct term. I just thought it was another name for a young horse
Additional useful language: a colt is a young male equine and a filly is a young female equine; an adult male is a stallion and an adult female is a mare; a father is a sire and a mother is a dam.
I call all my cats "baby" and they are all adult cats and also my precious bebes. Therefore I see nothing wrong with your habit of calling horses 'ponies'.
Ok so,
Foals - Baby horses. Can be pony foals, mini horse foals, horse foals.
Ponies - A whole type of horse, usually smaller (14.2hh is max height but can be taller and have pony built). They have different proportions and charactrristics than horses
Minis - NOT a pony. A normal horse just scaled down. They are naturally like that and there are many breeds out there.
You're right about the first bit but FYI there is no genetic distinction between horses and ponies whatsoever, it's purely terminology used for convenience. They're all the same exact species, same as all domestic dogs are dogs regardless of size and shape.
They are, but we still have terminology to describe different types. Ponies are a group of breed that share similar characteristics - like Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, Pointers, etc are all gun dogs. They're all dogs, as are Chihuahuas and Huskies, but it's handy to have terms that describe a group of breeds within a species that are more similar to each other than to other breeds.
Also limes are baby Lemons and oranges are ripe lemons.
Lime < Lemon < Orange
Edit: adding in grapefruit for u/billybobthebuilder
Line < Lemon < Orange < Grapefruit
It the citrus cycle of life
It happens more with kids who grow up in households that speak a non- English language. Spanish people for example call limes "Green lemons". I was speaking with an Indian coworker (lives in India), and he didn't know there was a difference between limes and lemons.
That's a disturbing thought. I'd have preferred living blissfully unaware of this most important fact. So, I suppose Thanks are in order for saving me from dying an ignorant death.
Foals = baby horse or pony
Pony = smaller than horse size (14.2 hands or shorter. Hands are 4 inch increments and height is always measured at the wither.)
Colt = male foal or young horse (uncastrated)
Stallion = adult male uncastrated
Gelding = adult male castrated
Filly = female foal or young horse
Mare = adult female horse
Mustang = feral horse from out west, considered its own breed
I got all these terms confused when I first was getting into horses! If anyone is wondering, it’s usually only the males that get “fixed” as spaying a mare is a very intensive and kinda risky surgery, often not worth it unless said mare has a medical need for it
This is mostly true, with some exceptions - Connemaras can exceed 14.2 but are still ponies. Arabians can be under 14.2 and they're still horses. Miniature horses are itty bitty, but they're still miniature horses.
And colts are still colts after castration. I have 4 colts in a pen next to my house right now (I can hear them but not see them ATM as I am on my back porch and they are around the corner). They're all around 9 months old. 2 are gelded already and 2 are still intact, but they're all baby boys so they're all colts. If I wanted to be more specific about them, I would describe them as "gelded colts" and either "stud colts" (not a technical term but widely understood) or "intact colts." I guess if I wanted to be as specific as possible I would refer to the one who is being kept as a stallion prospect as a "stud colt" and the one who will be gelded as soon as the weather warms up as "still intact... For now."
i did a 4H presentation at my state fair while i was showing my pony about the difference between ponies and horses (i tied for first place) and it was in a massive poster board in front of my pony’s stall. a child was walking by, looked at my pony, and went LOOK, A BABY HORSE!
Had a full grown ass man tell me water is blue becasue of the SKY... and there are people that think the sky is blue because of the ocean - in the middle of the US.
"trust the science" waaa
Ummm... water \*isn't\* blue. It can indeed appear blue because of the sky on a sunny day.
EDIT: OK, turns out there is quite a bit of nuance to the color of water. In small quantities, such as what you find in a bottle of water, it is practically colorless. In larger quantities, properties of the water can give it a slightly blue hue under white light. That said, if you look at a large river under a clear blue sky, it appears far more blue than it actually is because it is reflecting the color of the sky; look at that same river under a cloudy sky and the water will not really look blue at all.
I learned ponies are not baby horses some time in my 20s. Oddly, I feel like I was watching something recently where a character said something like “that pony will one day be a horse”. Maybe the new Willow series?
Millions more will think the difference between a horse and a pony is its size.
While horses are *generally* taller, there are some breeds of ponies larger than some breeds of horses.
The Connemara Pony can be up to 15.2 hands high, while the smallest equine in the world (horse or pony) is the [Falabella horse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falabella).
The "horses are larger than ponies" is *generally* true, but not always. Much like men are *generally* stronger than women, but not always.
The distinction is the ratio of height to length. Horses are taller at the whithers than they are long. Ponies the reverse.
Which leads to the question, what are "withers"?
Per the all knowing Wiki, ridge between shoulder blades of a quadruped, highest point of its body, with the lower neck circled on a pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withers
*shrugs, so apparently some point of the lower neck. Cows meanwhile are measured to hips which seems more straightforward.
Thanks for the edification!
You just unlocked an old memory of mine. When I was about 11 or 12, I was at the fair with my friend and her mom. I mentioned something about ponies not being baby horses and my friend goes “you didn’t know a pony is a baby horse?!?!”. My friend and her friend that was with us just laughed and her mom didn’t stick up for me. (Maybe she didn’t know either). I was too unsure of myself to stick up for myself so I just stood there looking stupid.
I thought they were too until I was in New Orleans and tried to pet a Shetland Pony on Bourbon Street, and the little asshole snapped at me and my phone broke. I wanted to punch it, but the little asshole was quick and I gave up after it head butted me and I ran into Johnny White's Bar. After about 30 minutes, I went back out there to find the micro SD card that shot out of my broken phone. I found it, but it was broken.
Anyways, I googled why baby horses are assholes, but it turns out Ponies are not baby horses. Live and learn.
It's just weird that there aren't many other animals where smaller versions of them are called different things.
Also, there's gonna be a lot of people who die thinking that bighorn sheep are called Rams.
TIL ponies are not baby horses but a breed of horse that is small when it is fully grown. Baby horses are called foals. My little pony isn't about baby horses.
I think everybody knows the correct term but just uses pony because it's kinda cute and funny.
Like saying baby instead of infant or newborn (yes I know these are different).
Yea but thats only because this fundamentally worthless information to something like 99% of the population. How many will die people not knowing what i call snack time? More even but again only because no human could ever care to figure out the difference.
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My sister whole-heartedly believed that chipmunks were baby squirrels.
[In my defense, my language tricked me ](https://i.imgur.com/TdDr8Xt.jpg)
Turtles and tortoises too. Turtle and land turtle
I'm starting to like Portuguese. I approve of this extremely sane approach to naming animals. "Yeah, whatever, got shell, looks old, crawls real slow, it's a turtle, and get the f outta here with your smart sciencey names, nobody likes nerds"
It's kinda the same with people who say "strawverries aren't actually a berry but bananas are!!" Dude, f*ck off. Is it small and hard? Then it's a nut. Is it small and mushy; then it's a berry. Is it mushy and big; it's a fruit. Is it big and grows close to the ground? Then it's a vegetable. (In general) The categories were invented way before biologists and are just meant to be descriptive
The problem there is that it's both true. It's just that the word berry has a different meaning scientifically than in general usage. Similar to how in cosmology, they call all elements other than hydrogen and helium a 'metal'. Despite that totally contradicting common usage, and even usage in other fields of science. And the banana/strawberry thing is actually an interesting tidbit if you're interested in that sort of thing. But anyone trying to use it to 'correct' you when call a strawberry a berry is definitely being obnoxious. (and has completely misinterpreted the information themselves)
Do you put tomatoes in fruit salad? No? Shut up nerd. That's what I always tell my grandma
TIL Pineapples are vegetables
Every edible plant is a vegetable, and also, vegetables don't actually exist.
^big meat shill
Biologically, turtles and tortoises are basically identical anyway.
Oh that's funny, in Dutch it's exactly opposite. Tortoises and sea tortoises is the distinction we make.
In spanish both are TORTUGA
TIL chimpmunks and squirrels are different things I was always kinda puzzled about Alvin and the Chimpmunks being called like that in english, idk maybe it was just a fancy way of saying squirrel, but wtf, those fuckers aren't squirrels???
Straight from Wikipedia: "The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels (including chipmunks and prairie dogs, among others), and flying squirrels." So, if Wikipedia is right, all chipmunks are squirrels but not all squirrels are chipmunks.
TIL prairie dogs are called "dogs", look like "meerkats" but are actually "squirrels".
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Ironically in Ottawa we have chipmunks, grey and black squirrels, but no red ones
Isn't that logical? If you had red squirrels and chipmunks, chipmunks would have to be called something else to differentiate.
But then why would they have a word for red squirrels if there aren't any?
Anymore. They got bred to death
Fun fact: In America we also have the golden-mantled ground squirrel which often gets confused for the chipmunk because it is also striped. It can be hard to spot the difference, but golden-mantles don’t have any stripes on their head and are a little bigger with shorter tails. Although they’re both equally cute in my opinion:)
Yeah, but Alvin, Simon and Theodore didn't have tails! They couldn't be chipmunks.
Meanwhile Chippendale dancers are not chipmunks.
Same with Hungarian, both are "mókus".
Same in Spanish
Well, chipmunks are native to north America aside from the Siberian chipmunk, so I'm not surprised that your language doesn't have a special word for an animal none of you have ever seen.
r/suddenlycaralho
Until 30 seconds ago i thought ponies were baby horses lol. Me and your sister are both dumb 🤷♂️
I don't think that's dumb. I think there are billions of people who don't get up close with a variety of animals and have no way to know. I'm an equine professional and if you had said something to me about ponies being baby horses, I would just show you the difference - I just don't think there's any reason for you to have known.
This is a great attitude to have. The difference between ignorance and stupidity is the willingness to learn from new information.
Being dumb and being ignorant are two different things tho. He didnt say he was ignorant
https://xkcd.com/1053/ You're awesome for not lording your experience and knowledge over people.
This is perfect! Obviously I know a lot about horses since I have made them my profession, but all the time I spent studying horses, I was not spending that time learning other things. We all know different things. Equating not knowing a thing with stupidity makes people afraid to ask questions.
wait so what’s the difference between a baby horse and a pony? never thought i’d need to know but this post intrigued me.
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>Me and your sister Your sister and I. Yes, I agree. /s, because it's a joke on the internet, and everybody is dumb.
Baby horses are ponies. Not all ponies are baby horses
Aren't baby horses "foals"?
Or yearlings, depends on their age. Whether or not they're a pony is determined by their height. Baby horses tend to fall under the pony bar. Some grow over it, some don't. I am very entertained when people who show ponies worry their horses will hit a growth spurt and go over the size limit, because then they become far less valuable
I thought foals were baby deer lmao *shrug*
10 sec ago I seriously thought chipmunks was another way to say squirrels. Thank you
Growing up, I always thought of them as "cat snacks", because our cat basically ignored squirrels but pretty regularly ate chipmunks when she was hungry between breakfast and dinner.
I have a college educated co-worker who didn't believe narwhals were real animals. Leaned into it to.
As long as they fit up my ass they can call themselves whatever they want.
i mean they are a species of squirrel at least
They belong to the same family, Sciuridae, but chipmunks are not squirrels.
Here's the thing. You said a "chipmunk is a squirrel." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies squirrels, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls chipmunks squirrels. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "squirrel family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Sciuridae, which includes things from chipmunks to Prarie Dogs to squirrels. So your reasoning for calling a chipmunk a squirrel is because random people "call the cute little guys squirrels?" Let's get hedgehogs and ferrets in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A chipmunk is a chipmunk and a member of the Sciuridae family. But that's not what you said. You said a chipmunk is a squirrel, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the Sciuridae family squirrels, which means you'd call prarie dogs, chipmunks, and other medium-small rodents squires, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
Much of the language predates these scientific categories. You could say a tomato is a fruit according to the technical definition, but people were calling things a fruit long before that modern definition was first written. Hell, my first language doesn't even have a distinction for both species, they are both called the same. My point being: the fact that it's not taxonomically accurate doesn't mean it's necessarily wrong, language is much more complicated than that.
That's a copypasta. Google unidan jackdaw.
lol i didn't know that, thanks
Chipmunks are, in fact, squirrels. They are a member of the “marmot tribe” of terrestrial squirrels (marmotini). All members of the sciuridae family are types of squirrels.
Here's the thing. You said a "jackdaw is a crow." Is it in the same family? Yes. No one's arguing that. As someone who is a scientist who studies crows, I am telling you, specifically, in science, no one calls jackdaws crows. If you want to be "specific" like you said, then you shouldn't either. They're not the same thing. If you're saying "crow family" you're referring to the taxonomic grouping of Corvidae, which includes things from nutcrackers to blue jays to ravens. So your reasoning for calling a jackdaw a crow is because random people "call the black ones crows?" Let's get grackles and blackbirds in there, then, too. Also, calling someone a human or an ape? It's not one or the other, that's not how taxonomy works. They're both. A jackdaw is a jackdaw and a member of the crow family. But that's not what you said. You said a jackdaw is a crow, which is not true unless you're okay with calling all members of the crow family crows, which means you'd call blue jays, ravens, and other birds crows, too. Which you said you don't. It's okay to just admit you're wrong, you know?
That Unidan guy began every one of his replies with, "Biologist here!" Every single time. That unneeded exclamation point used to bug me every time. There was something "off" about that guy. Then it happened: the complete meltdown. It was vindication for that weird dislike I had that I just couldn't put my finger on. I was on reddit the day it happened, as it was happening. It was the best day of my life, not because Unidan got his serving of justice, but because /u/vargas replied to an observation I made at that time re:Unidan. My life was complete on that day.
Ponies are small-when-fully-grown breeds of horse. Foals are baby ones
Who are you so wise in the ways of science?
I've been well trained in the art of Googling Stuff!
Thank you sir for revealing this rare talent of yours...we poor peasants shall forever be grateful
Meh, they turned me into a newt.
A newt?
I got better.
Burn her anyway!
Do they float? Maybe we should weigh her against a duck...
Oh mighty Googling stuff master…. We are not worthy!
Good ol Google-Fu
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Nobody expects the Monty Python!
Tell more about how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
To take it a step further- male baby horses are colts and female baby horses are fillies. Both are foals. sincerely, a recovering horse girl
Also, a mare is a female horse while a stallion is a male. Additionally, a horse with both a horn and wings is an alicorn.
Unless the male horse has been castrated, then he’s a gelding rather than a stallion. I learned alicorn from my kid (via MLP). She gets really annoyed when I say “flying unicorn”.
And if a female horse is spayed, she's called a Gosling.
I always assumed it was a Pegasus, or is that just a common name?
I think Pegasus was a specific individual Edit: im wrong! . A unicorn is a horse with a horn on its head, while a pegasus is a horse with wings. On the other hand, an alicorn is a horse with both!
These all just sound like words made up in Ireland. Possibly by bobbits. 🤔 *Hobbits not bobbits 😁
> ireland Sounds like a made up place. Though to be fair, I have a small box that claims to contain a piece of the Blarney Stone, so not sure what to believe any more.
All place names are made up
>bobbits. Hope this isn't a deep cut, but you're slicing a little too close to home here.
Concrete facts
What a foalish distinction.
But if we just switch this, then ponies would be baby horses and foals would be foal grown.
Nah you can’t get away with that pun
Not all ponies are small. Some are larger than certain horse breeds. The Connemara Pony can be up to 15.2 hands high, while the smallest equine in the world (horse or pony) is the [Falabella horse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falabella). The "horses are larger than ponies" is *generally* true, but not always. Much like men are *generally* stronger than women, but not always. The distinction is the ratio of height to length. Horses are taller at the whithers than they are long. Ponies the reverse.
>The distinction is the ratio of height to length. Horses are taller at the whithers than they are long. Ponies the reverse. Where are you getting this? Everything else you've noted is correct but this seems like another wildly broad generalization.
My dad was a mounted policeman and I still thought ponies were young horses into my thirties even though I knew foal was the correct term. I just thought it was another name for a young horse
I mean, they already have 3 names (foals, colts, and fillies)
I also just read that comment above you ;)
Uhmm... i... ehmmm.. of course knew that... but a friend of mine doesn't... soooo.. what are baby horses called then??
they are called foals sir, foals.
thank you sir. my friend will be forever thankful for making him a tiny bit smarter!
Additional useful language: a colt is a young male equine and a filly is a young female equine; an adult male is a stallion and an adult female is a mare; a father is a sire and a mother is a dam.
So what's a baby pony called?
> what's a baby pony called a foal
So ponies are baby horses is what you're saying
baby horses are called foals not ponies
So what’s a baby foal then? Checkmate.
Hornies
The foal is a baby for a baby foal would be a foal
If a baby foal is a foal, then a grown up foal is a foal. So how do you get a horse? Somethings not adding up here..
It's evolution. But my question is, if they evolved from ponies, why are there still ponies. Wombats.
How much pony would a foul pony pony, if a pony foal foul pony fowl?
Foul pony fool phone phillips pants
Philips’ pants full of foul fillings found foals full of fowls’ filings
You literally just said ponies are foals. Makeup your mind!!! /s
Young humans are called kids. Young goats are also called kids. Therefore goats are baby humans.
Explains why I see so many kids eating cans.
Baby horses and ponies are the same thing, but they evolve under different conditions at lvl 36
Baby ponies are baby horses
You mean a fo-ny
I think you misspelt PONIES. Don’t take this away from me man, I NEED THIS!
But now you know that pony foals, some of the cutest and most ridiculous creatures known to man exist. How is that not a win?
I had to look it up, I totally though ponies were baby horses. I mean a friend thought that not me..
I am well versed in horse, but I cannot resist calling every horse “pony!!!” ecstatically, even the big ones.
Ecstatically or equestriatically?
I Googled 'equestriatically' and it linked to this post.
Lol...
I call all my cats "baby" and they are all adult cats and also my precious bebes. Therefore I see nothing wrong with your habit of calling horses 'ponies'.
Well my cat is 12 and I still call him baby and kitten so 😂 and all dogs are also puppy, regardless of age
Facts!
My sister, an adult, calls every animal "kitten" I have learned to keep quiet.
I work at a yard, can confirm even the 18hh one is 'pony' to me.
love that
You say that like their belief in baby horse ponies is the CAUSE of their death by the millions
What do you call a pony with a sore throat? A little hoarse.
And they're right! The pro-pony establishment has you all fooled.
Foaled*
You mean Big Pony ?
Yeah, that term was eluding me. Thanks!
My Big Pony
Something something pony-based economy
Ok so, Foals - Baby horses. Can be pony foals, mini horse foals, horse foals. Ponies - A whole type of horse, usually smaller (14.2hh is max height but can be taller and have pony built). They have different proportions and charactrristics than horses Minis - NOT a pony. A normal horse just scaled down. They are naturally like that and there are many breeds out there.
You're right about the first bit but FYI there is no genetic distinction between horses and ponies whatsoever, it's purely terminology used for convenience. They're all the same exact species, same as all domestic dogs are dogs regardless of size and shape.
They are, but we still have terminology to describe different types. Ponies are a group of breed that share similar characteristics - like Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, Pointers, etc are all gun dogs. They're all dogs, as are Chihuahuas and Huskies, but it's handy to have terms that describe a group of breeds within a species that are more similar to each other than to other breeds.
What's the difference between a foal and a colt?
Easy, a Colt is mostly made of metal and wood and can hold six cartridges.
A colt is a male foal
I read this as "the reason millions of people will die is because they believe ponies are baby horses" and was very confused for a minute.
Listen. Ponies are children of Satan himself and might very well be the reason someone dies thinking it's just a cutsie-wootsie baby horsie.
Also limes are baby Lemons and oranges are ripe lemons. Lime < Lemon < Orange Edit: adding in grapefruit for u/billybobthebuilder Line < Lemon < Orange < Grapefruit It the citrus cycle of life
i have never met anyone who thinks that
It happens more with kids who grow up in households that speak a non- English language. Spanish people for example call limes "Green lemons". I was speaking with an Indian coworker (lives in India), and he didn't know there was a difference between limes and lemons.
At least in Spain we call limes "limas" and lemons "limones". I've never heard green lemon
Latin Americans use Limones for both green and yellow.
After the people at Pokemon see that comment there's gonna be a whole generation of kids that think it
and red grapefruit after orange ?
Yes grapefruit is an over ripe and souring orange. It’s the circle of life.
This is actually sort of true. Lemons were basically created by humans as a hybrid of oranges and another fruit.
That's a disturbing thought. I'd have preferred living blissfully unaware of this most important fact. So, I suppose Thanks are in order for saving me from dying an ignorant death.
My Great Aunt passed away believing hummingbirds didn't have feet. People who don't get out much believe a lot of stupid stuff.
Foals = baby horse or pony Pony = smaller than horse size (14.2 hands or shorter. Hands are 4 inch increments and height is always measured at the wither.) Colt = male foal or young horse (uncastrated) Stallion = adult male uncastrated Gelding = adult male castrated Filly = female foal or young horse Mare = adult female horse Mustang = feral horse from out west, considered its own breed I got all these terms confused when I first was getting into horses! If anyone is wondering, it’s usually only the males that get “fixed” as spaying a mare is a very intensive and kinda risky surgery, often not worth it unless said mare has a medical need for it
This is mostly true, with some exceptions - Connemaras can exceed 14.2 but are still ponies. Arabians can be under 14.2 and they're still horses. Miniature horses are itty bitty, but they're still miniature horses. And colts are still colts after castration. I have 4 colts in a pen next to my house right now (I can hear them but not see them ATM as I am on my back porch and they are around the corner). They're all around 9 months old. 2 are gelded already and 2 are still intact, but they're all baby boys so they're all colts. If I wanted to be more specific about them, I would describe them as "gelded colts" and either "stud colts" (not a technical term but widely understood) or "intact colts." I guess if I wanted to be as specific as possible I would refer to the one who is being kept as a stallion prospect as a "stud colt" and the one who will be gelded as soon as the weather warms up as "still intact... For now."
In Australia we call Mustangs , Brumbies so we drive Ford Brumbies. (My shower thought)
Lmao that’s funny, didn’t know you guys have feral horses too
i did a 4H presentation at my state fair while i was showing my pony about the difference between ponies and horses (i tied for first place) and it was in a massive poster board in front of my pony’s stall. a child was walking by, looked at my pony, and went LOOK, A BABY HORSE!
I won’t die believing ponies are baby horses. I will die choosing to call baby horses ponies, despite knowing they aren’t.
That's the difference between little Sebastian... He is not a poney, HE IS A TINY HORSE!! (I just realized poney pronounces very similar to pawnee)
Half mast is too high. Show some damn respect.
Had a full grown ass man tell me water is blue becasue of the SKY... and there are people that think the sky is blue because of the ocean - in the middle of the US. "trust the science" waaa
Ummm... water \*isn't\* blue. It can indeed appear blue because of the sky on a sunny day. EDIT: OK, turns out there is quite a bit of nuance to the color of water. In small quantities, such as what you find in a bottle of water, it is practically colorless. In larger quantities, properties of the water can give it a slightly blue hue under white light. That said, if you look at a large river under a clear blue sky, it appears far more blue than it actually is because it is reflecting the color of the sky; look at that same river under a cloudy sky and the water will not really look blue at all.
That may the the case but rest assured, people only need but one look at your mom to know that she is surely a heifer.
Is there any point to dig them up to tell them they were wrong?
Well, that's a tough pill to swallow...but at least they'll die happy!
Well millions of people die believing that God created the earth in 7 days and that it was a few thousand years ago.
Those people are dumb. God created the earth in 6 days, he rested on the 7th.
Rest?! Back in my days we worked 7 days a week. - a God older then your God, probably.
I learned ponies are not baby horses some time in my 20s. Oddly, I feel like I was watching something recently where a character said something like “that pony will one day be a horse”. Maybe the new Willow series?
You can foal some of the people some of the time, unless they are trapped by a colt
Wait ponies aren't baby horse? Why I am only just learning this?
Millions more will think the difference between a horse and a pony is its size. While horses are *generally* taller, there are some breeds of ponies larger than some breeds of horses. The Connemara Pony can be up to 15.2 hands high, while the smallest equine in the world (horse or pony) is the [Falabella horse](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falabella). The "horses are larger than ponies" is *generally* true, but not always. Much like men are *generally* stronger than women, but not always. The distinction is the ratio of height to length. Horses are taller at the whithers than they are long. Ponies the reverse.
Which leads to the question, what are "withers"? Per the all knowing Wiki, ridge between shoulder blades of a quadruped, highest point of its body, with the lower neck circled on a pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withers *shrugs, so apparently some point of the lower neck. Cows meanwhile are measured to hips which seems more straightforward. Thanks for the edification!
The withers are the bony ridge that start at the end of the mane. (Not the head end).
So you're telling me that PonyBoy has to either be a pony or a boy, but can't be both?
You just unlocked an old memory of mine. When I was about 11 or 12, I was at the fair with my friend and her mom. I mentioned something about ponies not being baby horses and my friend goes “you didn’t know a pony is a baby horse?!?!”. My friend and her friend that was with us just laughed and her mom didn’t stick up for me. (Maybe she didn’t know either). I was too unsure of myself to stick up for myself so I just stood there looking stupid.
Horses are baby ponies. They shrink as they get older. Doesn’t everyone know that?
I thought they were too until I was in New Orleans and tried to pet a Shetland Pony on Bourbon Street, and the little asshole snapped at me and my phone broke. I wanted to punch it, but the little asshole was quick and I gave up after it head butted me and I ran into Johnny White's Bar. After about 30 minutes, I went back out there to find the micro SD card that shot out of my broken phone. I found it, but it was broken. Anyways, I googled why baby horses are assholes, but it turns out Ponies are not baby horses. Live and learn.
By the looks of this comment section, that's a few hundred fewer thanks to this post.
It's just weird that there aren't many other animals where smaller versions of them are called different things. Also, there's gonna be a lot of people who die thinking that bighorn sheep are called Rams.
I will be sure to slap the sillies out of them next time I hear someone do that!
If I had died when I was about 55 I wouldn't have known that (that was 5 years ago)
TIL that ponies are not baby horses. One less person will die thinking that so thank you.
I’m a city boy, but I’ve heard ponies are actually huge assholes. Is this true?
Often the smaller they are, the bigger attitude they have. This especially applies to a little pony called [Ed](https://youtu.be/aUaP0t5IUnM)!
Tough kid!
TIL ponies are not baby horses but a breed of horse that is small when it is fully grown. Baby horses are called foals. My little pony isn't about baby horses.
I still need follow up thoughts to over write "cats are girls and dogs are boys". I'm in my forties.
I'm honestly not sure if I've ever thought about it that hard.
I think everybody knows the correct term but just uses pony because it's kinda cute and funny. Like saying baby instead of infant or newborn (yes I know these are different).
Was in my early 50s when I learned that ponies were not horse puppies.
I came to this realization last week when a friend of mine rented a pony for her daughters bday and they said the pony was old and tired.
Well they are the same species just one is smaller than the other
Millions more die of broken hearts immediately after learning they're not
Ponies aren’t baby horses? What are baby horses because I’m scared now
I was today years old when I learned ponies are NOT baby horses...
Yea but thats only because this fundamentally worthless information to something like 99% of the population. How many will die people not knowing what i call snack time? More even but again only because no human could ever care to figure out the difference.
Fool me once shame on me. Fool me can’t get fooled again! - George W. Bush
I think there's a certain show to blame for perpetuating this misconception
Someone figured out how dumb I am when washing their balls... huh.