Who is the odd animal? Maybe you're

Lilly white is doing puzzles again, and this time she was doing, the Who is the odd animal? puzzle from the zoo. It appears; there is always an odd one among ordinary. There is a Whale, a Star fish and a shark sitting next to a rabbit. And the queer rabbit is definitely out of place. And in another place, A lion, is sleeping among a pelican, swan and a bat. Obviously, Lion although brave looked odd, among others who all could fly. But is that all there to the puzzle?

A Whale. - > is a mammal which lives in water

A starfish -> has a radial symmetry

A shark -> has gills and a vertical tail fin

A rabbit. -> has fur

An odd whale

Apparently when we look from a different angle, we can argue that each animal on the list is an odd one. The similarities we see are just arbitrary and imaginary. It helps in understanding the world, yet when we do that, some perspective is missing. The perspective that everyone is just odd when it comes to living beings. As a reference I can give a full list of such categorization from animalia.

Animalia

│

├── Porifera (Sponges)

│

├── Cnidaria (Jellyfish, corals)

│

├── Platyhelminthes (Flatworms)

│

├── Nematoda (Roundworms)

│

├── Annelida (Segmented worms)

│

├── Mollusca (Snails, octopus)

│

├── Arthropoda (Insects, spiders, crabs)

│

├── Echinodermata (Starfish, sea urchins)

│

└── Chordata (Animals with backbone)

│

├── Fish

├── Amphibians

├── Reptiles

├── Birds

└── Mammals

We can say a crocodile is different from a water buffalo. As long as some idiot doesn't come to the classroom and ask, which crocodile and which water buffalo you are talking about. We might tend to chase that person away. But the truth is each and every crocodile that ever lived on planet earth are unique, different from each other, hence the odd one.

Who is the odd animal? Maybe you're

What applies to water buffaloes and crocodiles of Nile, applies to humans as well. Each and every one of us are Odd. Sometimes we may strangely feel that we are odd, and others belong to a special group. A secret society, or a political party, or even a gang that we are not a part of. But if we look at carefully in the mind's eye of each individual, that is not true. They are odd too, in their own way. It's just not apparent in except for a wise person, or in our case to the classroom idiot. So, do not worry. Make it an advantage. Maybe the unique combination of genes you have in your arm of the mammal group might just be the right combination that earth needs 100 years into the future. And the aliens who inhabit our world in 10000 more years will look at you just like we look at a salamander from Devonian era.

A salamander