[Taxacom] Catastrophic loss
Tony Rees
tonyrees49 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 15:33:31 CST 2021
2021
Not so fast - we are talking scholarly, not popular usage I would say
(popular = not always correct...) - I found 1 paper from 1967 with "koala
bear" in the title, thus:
Antidiuretic activity in the pituitary gland of the *koala bear*
<https://www.nature.com/articles/216916a0>
NE Yesberg, OE Budtz-Olsen, K Sharples - Nature, 1967
As compared with 10,000+ with "koala", see e.g.:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22koala%22+%22journal%22&btnG
There is always an outlier or two, but I would say the trend is clear...
Regards - Tony
Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
https://about.me/TonyRees
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 at 08:25, Michael A. Ivie via Taxacom <
taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu> wrote:
> 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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