• Zacryon@feddit.org
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    As far as I know there are a lot of fungi that have hundreds or even thousands of mating types, i.e. “sexes”. Fungi are weird.

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          A baby in a diaper, with no legs, wearing the Japanese flag on a giant turban, a cowardly royal guard, and who is actually an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

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            an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

            I guess they were referencing a toadstool, like Peach’s original US name? His name in Japanese actually makes sense: Kinopio, a play on the Japanese word for mushroom, “kinoko.”

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        'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down