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Nature Australia certainly does include some errors in the answers to
their quizzes (they have admitted to me). However in this case I would agree
that the answer is five, in that the likely intent of the question
was to be broad and to view the word crows in the generic sense. Ravens are
crows in that they are members of the same genus. Actually questions like that
are often ambiguous as maybe the level being considered is family or order. The
question of "How many species of
parrots are native to Australia?" should include
Rosellas as they are parrots but we give them another name as a subset of
parrots.
Philip
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