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[–]EarballsOfMemeland 159 points160 points  (10 children)

Breathing and eating through one hole. I guess it's common among all animals not just humans but still, the Devs should be fired for that one.

[–]Gemmabeta 62 points63 points  (2 children)

We traded the ability for complex vocalizations for the ability to choke on food.

It seems to have been a good exchange in the long run.

[–]AdvocateSaint 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Also our digestive tract is a long tube with a mouth on one end and our shitter on the other

Beats being a starfish or other creature with an all-purpose cloaca, one orifice for everything. Their mouth is also their asshole. But from the looks of it, a lot of humans apparently have this feature

[–]Stomco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think starfish have a separate anus since sea cucumbers do. Though, there are animals that have secondarily lost theirs.

[–]stealthd 16 points17 points  (3 children)

Whales don’t have this defect

[–]BrummieTaff 7 points8 points  (2 children)

No. But what about when they get a cold?

[–]crumpetsweater 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Whale colds are extremely common and, if left untreated, account for nearly a 5th of whale deaths annually. They just don’t have enough minute clinics under da sea (under da sea).

[–]WillingnessOk8721 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Everything’s betta, down where it’s wetta, under da sea

[–]HonestBobHater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a glaring mistake, indeed.

[–]UnrulySasquatch1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This gets posted every time, but really it's not a bad thing. If you had two separate tubes they would need to both be smaller to occupy the same total space

If you give half the space to each and reduce the diameter by half, you actually reduce the area by a quarter. So now you are stuck with very shallow breaths (imagine getting step throat or hives or anything else that swells your air hole) and chewing for a lot longer to basically liquify everything you eat. Plus if you "choke" with food in your eating tube you'll likely still die just over a much longer time because you have no way of forcing it back out (normally your lungs would try to do this)

Either that or you would have a super thick neck. So it's really a lose-lose either way

[–]ConfuzzledFalcon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact: not whales.