[Taxacom] Catastrophic loss
Michael A. Ivie
mivie at montana.edu
Sun Jan 24 15:25:30 CST 2021
2021
Yes, Tony, run very fast: Google "Koala Bear" About 34,500,000 results
(1.01 seconds).
Seems like a pretty widely accepted common name, don't you think?
I am the same with "the data is"
Mike
On 1/24/2021 11:54 AM, Tony Rees via Taxacom wrote:
> Well I dunno... here in Australia we do indeed have lots of common names
> based on misleading external resemblances... we have Australian salmon that
> are not salmon, as you say silky oaks that are not oaks, Australian magpies
> that are not magpies... All fine with me since these have become the
> "legitimate" common names. However the common name for the koala is the
> koala, pure and simple. "Koala bear" just grates... - and makes me think
> that the user should be educated to know better (sorry if this offends,
> maybe it is just me assuming a superiority when I should not). All right,
> I'll shut up now, and run away fast!!
>
> Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 04:50, Richard Jensen via Taxacom <
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>> Tony Reese wrote:
>>
>>>> (1) "Koala bear-like animal with carnivorous teeth" - no bear references
>>>> PLEASE!! Koalas are koalas, pure and simple, and about as far away
>>>> (phylogenetically) from bears as you can get and still be a mammal.
>> Oh no! Gone is "Teddy Bear"; so to the "Australian silver oak"; no more
>> "seahorses"; extinction of "lady bugs"; disappearance of "butterfly weed";?
>>
>> I was not aware that Koala bear was a name of confusion, based on illusion,
>> or simply allusion. Do we really believe such names can deceive? Or can we
>> forebear, with little despair, that names we all know, from quite long ago,
>> need not agree with phylogeny?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dick
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