Fish: Are they animals ?

[Enmos]

Pick one. And explain why.

 

[John99]

Yes. They are related to other biologically animated organisms whereas a tree is closer to a rock. Really a few steps beyond being a rock. As a matter of fact they become petrified wood...Rocks.

 

[cosmictraveler]

I think you are up to something fishy asking all of these foolish questions!

 

[Enmos]

Yes. They are related to other biologically animated organisms whereas a tree is closer to a rock.

This thread is not about trees. Thanks for your answer.

 

[Enmos]

I think you are up to something fishy asking all of these foolish questions!

Are they foolish ? Oh hum..

 

[John99]

I think you are up to something fishy asking all of these foolish questions!

These are not foolish questions. Some people do not know. Look at corals, how in the world can someone call them plants? Yet at one time the did.

 

[cosmictraveler]

These are not foolish questions. Some people do not know. Look at corals, how in the world can someone call them plants? Yet at one time the did.

But a coral isn't a fish.

 

[Orbit]

its a vertebrate. it has a backbone. therefore its an animal.

 

[Myles]

Yes. They are related to other biologically animated organisms whereas a tree is closer to a rock. Really a few steps beyond being a rock. As a matter of fact they become petrified wood...Rocks.

There you go again,barking up the wrong fish !

 

[Myles]

These are not foolish questions. Some people do not know. Look at corals, how in the world can someone call them plants? Yet at one time the did.

I call them plants brcause god planted then there.

 

[Myles]

Fish are not animals because they have no eyelids.

 

[Hercules Rockefeller]

Pick one. And explain why.

Please stop spamming with stupid polls.

 

[Enmos]

Please stop spamming with stupid polls.

Why are they stupid ?

 

[Myles]

But a coral isn't a fish.

To avoid confusion, may I suggest that you ask John whether he is using his private taxonomy or that used by scientists.

 

[S.A.M.]

Perhaps we should first define an animal. According to the dictionary:

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

 

[Enmos]

Perhaps we should first define an animal. According to the dictionary:

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Does that cover all animals ?
And some plants move voluntarily..

 

[Steve100]

Animals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa.

They fit, they are an animal.

 

[S.A.M.]

Does that cover all animals ?
And some plants move voluntarily..

That is why I said dictionary definition.

 

[Enmos]

That is why I said dictionary definition.

So what good does it do ?

 

[Myles]

Perhaps we should first define an animal. According to the dictionary:

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

So how would you classify someine who is completely paralyzed ?