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Re: Strange thoughts on PN - was Re: BAD vs. BADD
Mike Taylor wrote:
No, but parrots are Pollyphyletic.
Incidentally, this pun isn't as bad as you might think (though it is pretty
bad). In 2000, Gareth Dyke and Joanne Cooper named a new fossil parrot
_Pulchrapollia_ ("beautiful parrot"). Thus, "Polly" (for parrot) officially
entered the scientific nomenclature.
Cheers
Tim