Keep Them For Now
Thomsons Gazelles have jet black stripes, Grants' Gazelles do not.
Tigers have many stripes, Green Tiger Beetles have spots. Leopards have spots, like Leopard Slugs and spotted Hyenas. Should Green Tiger Beetles be called Spotted Hyena Beetles , leopard, or Cheetah beetles? There buzzes a Striped Hyena Hymenopteran Perhaps we should just ditch the common names and stick to the Latin? After all Noel Coward as a zoologist might say, 'It is the privilege of the amateur to wallow in the poetry of superfluous nomenclature while the rest of us toil away at the rock face of real knowledge acquisition'
- Category: General / Misc
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Neville Hunt over 1 year ago
A rose by any other name...
Now I’m seeing maculae (or is it plagae?)...
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Jamie Clapperton over 1 year ago
Blimey I don't even know. ;-)
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Neville Hunt over 1 year ago
(Spots and stripes... better I guess than seeing stars!)
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Jamie Clapperton over 1 year ago
Hehe maybe.
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Jamie Clapperton over 1 year ago
Not plague , no (Just looked it up,) All the spots in the above drabble are benign, though worn during Natures' struggle of tooth and claw.
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Jeff Taylor over 1 year ago
Those slugs can be really vicious. We gave most of ours an ignominious, but hopefully fully inebriated, death within the confines of many a beer filled trap. Wonderful use of language Jamie, but you might want to check your hymenopteran full stop ;)
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Jamie Clapperton over 1 year ago
Ta Jeff. Done.
