Are there many other creatures...

[Wilson Gray]

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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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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