Are there many other creatures...
Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Jun 21 02:55:02 UTC 2014
whose scientific name is a pun?
the "goosander" of Eurasia: _Mergus merganser_
You kinda have to know English, Latin, and German to get it. But, still...
- Wilson
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