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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

In German and Dutch it's way worse: "Säugetier" and "zoogdier". Both can roughly be translated to "sucking animals". I was taught in school that it's called that because babies suck on the mother's breasts to be fed and this is a unique trait to mammals. So in conclusion, we all suck.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

in swedish it's basically that except we say "nursing animals", which is more specific

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Same in Slovene. Sesalec - Sucker.