A bit of a flawed comic strip due to some taxonomic inaccuracies, but the punchline makes it a favorite for herpetologists.
An XKCD comic: https://xkcd.com/867/
Edit: spelling
I love how it pokes fun at an ackshyually, and then proposes a monophyletic clade for arseholes.
…at the end of the day herpetology studies tetrapods minus the ones that ornithologists and mammalogists called dibs on. You’ll see the same in medicine - vets treating all animals, except the species that physicians said “NOPE, I GOT THIS ONE”.
Small animals is a specialism. Like just animals that are small. Actually, so is exotics! So the same guy is treating parrots, reptiles, and monkeys. That’s ridiculous.
Humans?
Crabs 😔
I’m with the ornithologists. Herpetology is weird.
A badge we weirdos wear with honour.
Wait till you discover derpetology