birding-aus Re: semantics on John's quiz.

["Philip A Veerman" <>]

Ramblin John Gamblin asks: What makes a dove a dove and a pigeon a pigeon?

The ultimate answer to this and any other (sexually reproducing) biological
entity of which the question is posed, is:
"its parents".

Or specifically, the genetic material passed down from its parents.
It's obvious, like the time I was on a COG stall with another man who asked
a young school boy who stopped at our stall: What do Kookaburras live on?
"Trees", he said. Quite right too.


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