That means that the Southern Boobook is a inter-dimensional species.
It is not often that Ornithology meets Quantum Mechanics!!!! (oops,
too many exclamation marks-oh, dear, you know what that means)
On 29/01/2008, at 5:19 PM, Dave Torr wrote:
Well - if you click on the link in the Wiki article you get to
Southern Boobook so it is clearly NOT a new species!
On 29/01/2008, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
Dear All,
While trying to unravel the mystery of Ninox novaehollandiae, I have
come across an interesting piece of trivia, which might be useful for
anyone who sets Trivia Night questions. In the Disc World series of
books by Terry Pratchett, the pricipal city is Ankh-Morpork. The coat
of arms of Ankh-Morpork is crested with a Morpork holding an ankh. I
have not been able to trace the range of the Australasian Morpork
Ninox novaeseelandiae as far as Disc World. The heraldic Morpork must
be a previously un-described species, for which I nominate the the
Taxonomic name Ninox mundus-orbis.
If anyone would like to see the Ankh-Morporkian Coat of Arms, it can
be found at :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh-Morpork
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
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