Whats in a name

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Whats in a name

To:	"Denise Goodfellow" <>, "Dave Torr" <>
Subject:	Whats in a name
From:	"Alan Gillanders" <>
Date:	Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:25:46 +1000

"And what about Kolariwikwik for wading birds?"

This raises the issue of taxonomy. My Wik cousins knew of Sarus Cranes manydeccades ago and even though they applied a different name for them to thegeneral crane name, they were thoughtof as males and Brolgas as females. Twovery different mollucs (to my western viewpoint) shared a name because theywere collected, cooked and eaten in the same manner. Meanwhile a thirdspecies very closely related to one of the former had a different name as itwas starvation food only.

Regards.
Alan

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