Are bees a type of fish? The US "Business Insider" website reported on the 2nd that three judges in California recently said that as part of the ruling on providing additional protection for endangered species, bumblebees can be classified as a kind of fish in the legal sense.
"The question that needs to be asked here is whether the terrestrial invertebrate bumble bee falls within the definition of fish," the judges concluded in their ruling — indeed.
Previously, for California's bee lovers and all terrestrial invertebrates, the way the state's laws classify protected animals has become a problem. In 2018, california had 4 species of bees listed as endangered, but land invertebrates were not explicitly protected by the California Endangered Species Act (CESA), which protects endangered "native species or subspecies of birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, reptiles, or plants."
According to Business Insider, CESA's Fish and Hunting Code establishes the foundations for animal and plant protection, which defines "fish" as "a wild fish, mollusk, crustacean, invertebrate, amphibian, or part of those animals, spawning or oviparous (species)" Given that many of the above-mentioned marine organisms are not even classified as fish, California has been debating whether "invertebrates" can contain bees.
"Although fish is often referred to generically as an aquatic species in colloquial language," the California judges said, it is reasonable to expand the definition of "fish" in legislative terms in this case, so the frog is also included as a "fish" because it belongs to the "amphibian" under the definition of "fish."
For this kind of classification, foreign netizens have a lot of discussion. Some people understand that this is done for protection, but still feel "strange"↓
"Sadly, they had to be reclassified in order to protect them, and while I'm not sure to what extent these protections will go, maybe find something more interesting, I'm curious"
Others have said, "When did bees become fish?" ” ↓
Some netizens expressed shock, "What? ”↓
Some netizens did not understand and issued a "soul question mark"↓
More netizens sent an emoticon ↓
It is worth mentioning that in the American series of movies "Transformers", bumblebee's English name is also called "bumble bee".
So, he's also a fish?
(Original title: California judge ruled that bumblebee is a kind of fish, netizens saw the reason behind it, sent this emoji)
Source: World Wide Web
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