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Emoji are special graphical symbols used to represent faces, emotions, objects, animals, food and other things in textual messages. Unlike emoticons, emoji are displayed as real pictures and not pictographs.
- Smileys & Emotion
Smileys & Emotion - The Ultimate Emoji Guide: Meanings,...
- People & Body
People & Body - The Ultimate Emoji Guide: Meanings,...
- Animals & Nature
A complete list of Emoji from the Animals & Nature category,...
- Food & Drink
A complete list of Emoji from the Food & Drink category,...
- Activities
Activities Emoji 🎃. Jack-O-Lantern. 🎄. Christmas Tree. 🎆....
- Travel & Places
Travel & Places - The Ultimate Emoji Guide: Meanings,...
- Objects
Objects - The Ultimate Emoji Guide: Meanings, Pictures,...
- Symbols
A complete list of Emoji from the Symbols category, their...
- Flags
Flags - The Ultimate Emoji Guide: Meanings, Pictures, Codes...
- Hearts
Hearts - The Ultimate Emoji Guide: Meanings, Pictures, Codes...
- Smileys & Emotion
- Overview
- My, What Inaccurate Teeth You Have
- Emojis Are For The Birds
- Bugging Out
- Monkey Business
For starters, caterpillars don't have antenna and zebra ears aren't pink.
Updated February 23, 2018We live in an increasingly emoji-dominated world. There are now emoji television recaps, emoji movies, and emoji encyclopedias. But how scientifically accurate are these popular pixels, especially when it comes to the animals they claim to represent?
As it turns out, biologists have a lot of feelings about emojis and their exactitude.
For instance, when Emojipedia released its new lobster emoji in 2018, crustacean experts had a lot to say about the fact the sea creature was missing two legs. On February 19, the encyclopedia acknwoledged the anatomical mistake, writing on its blog that "we've now updated the design, and the correct number of legs has been restored."
Anne Hilborn, a researcher studying cheetahs at Virginia Tech University, takes particular umbrage with the way Microsoft has given their version of a zebra emoji pink ears and nostrils.
“Seriously? Even when zebras die of diseases that have them bleed from their orifices, their nostrils aren’t pink,” says Hilborn.
Most emojis now come in 13 different varieties depending upon what platform they appear. This means that a bat emoji on one phone or app may look completely different from another.
“The large ears on the Apple bat emoji make me suspect that this bat is one of the microbats that echolocate,” says Alyson Brokaw, a bat researcher at Texas A&M University.
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On the other hand, Brokaw says Google’s bat emoji seems like it’s trying to be a vampire bat, but there’s just one problem. The bat’s fangs are in the wrong spot.
There’s similar variation among the species depicted for penguin emojis. Facebook’s version is clearly an Adélie penguin, says Michelle LaRue, a research ecologist at the University of Minnesota, while Google seems to have gone with an emperor penguin.
This is good, because “emperor penguins are objectively the best birds,” jokes LaRue. However, she says she’d be very concerned if she ever saw an emperor with that much sclera in the wild. (Sclera is the scientific name for the whites of the eyes.)
Birds actually fare rather well in emoji representation, says Jason Ward, an educator with the National Audubon Society. He notes that the eagles 🦅 and mallard ducks 🦆 are nearly all anatomically accurate.
“They even captured the bald eagle’s menacing ‘I’m going to rip all the scales from your body’ look that it gives fish right before it plucks one from the water,” says Ward. (Read about National Geographic Society's Year of the Bird.)
However, Samsung loses points for depicting its duck as a yellow rubber ducky and its owl as being purple.
“Fun fact, there are no purple owls in the world,” says Ward, “unless you search Pinterest.”
There are many quibbles to be had in the land of emojis, but none may be quite so damning as what’s been done with the bug emojis.
For starters, some platforms display the bug emoji as being a caterpillar, while others went with a centipede. And while most of these representations are more or less accurate, Morgan Jackson, an entomologist at the University of Guelph Insect Collection, points out that caterpillars don’t have antennae.
“Unless this is a sphinx moth caterpillar who has been stressed and agitated into displaying its osmeterium,” says Jackson. Finally, true bugs such as water boatmen and stink bugs don't have a caterpillar phase, like moths and butterflies.
Most of the problems with emoji anatomy appear to stem from an attempt to make animals appear cute.
But the monkeys may be worst of all.
According to Adriana Lowe, a primatologist at the University of Kent, the pale faces, dark hair, and round ears most of the monkey emojis sport seem to suggest they are chimpanzees.🐒
But here again, it’s the tails the emoji designers have gotten wrong. Chimps don’t have them, says Lowe, who just completed a field season studying wild chimpanzees in Uganda.
“I love chimps but I’m going to be honest, their back end is not pretty,” says Lowe. “A tail would drastically improve their ugly, bony butts.”
Dec 13, 2023 · After dividing every emoji related to nature and animals into a specific category, the researchers found that there are a total of 112 emojis of distinct organisms - 92 showing animals, 16...
A collection of 120 animal emojis featuring 8 different fauna-themed combinations and uses. Examples: 🦙 - Lama, 🐬🐙🐡🐠 - Sealife, 🤦♂️🤬🤦🐕🦺🐈 - Like cats and dogs.
There are 1874 emojis in 10 categories and 100 subcategories. Click on the desired emoji to learn more about its' meaning and find combos and usage examples. Contents: 😂 Smileys & Emotion. 👩 ️💋👨 People & Body. 🐝 Animals & Nature. 🍕 Food & Drink. 🌇 Travel & Places. 🥎 Activities.
Jan 2, 2024 · In an analysis of Emojipedia, a comprehensive emoji catalog, researchers have found that the emoji tree of life is lopsided: It entirely lacks a few big branches, such as flatworms and...
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Dec 12, 2023 · Molluscs, a richly diverse phylum with roughly 100,000 estimated species, have just four emojis (a squid, a snail, an octopus and an oyster). Cnidarians get two (a jellyfish and a tiny coral...
