https://www.thefarside.com/2026/10/23/3
Caption:
“What a find, Ms. Dinkins! … It’s Mailman, all right— but remarkably, this specimen is fully intact, with a Canis nipponicus still attached!”
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I wonder if this suggests shibas eventually become their own species from Canis familiaris and the two form their own subgenus.
I think in this case nipponicus refers jokingly to the act of nipping at the mailman rather than Nippon the country
Oh, that’s cute; I didn’t think of that!
(But for some context, “nipponicus”, i.e. “Japanese”, is used in species names and is synonymous with/I think secondary in popularity to “nipponensis”.)
This must be placed in the distant future. I wonder if they’ll put down a golden spike to mark the Stupid Era we currently find ourselves in