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For My Own Reference (Wiki stuff)
Stupid theories on what sets humans apart
- Imagination
- Sex for enjoyment [and perhaps bonobos]
- Ability to cook tubers
- Running ability (marathon style)
- Scientific curiosity
- Tool use (sea otters)
- Complex society
- Culture (orcas)
- spite [3]
- ability to deceive (ravens)
- morality (rhesus monkeys refusing food when another can't eat)
- emotions (magpie grief)
- personality
- ego
- bum wiping
- cruelty (for fun)
Speakable articles
Short-beaked Echidna:
- Tachyglossus aculeatus: tăk'ĭ
- Tachyglossus
- Bradiopsylla echidnae: .. -sĭl'ə ( _ + type + echidna)
- Myrmecophaga aculeata (mur-mi-co-faga)
- Ornithorhynchus hystrix *** : Ornithorhynchus is derived from ορνιθορυγχος ("ornithorhynkhos"), which literally means "bird nose" in Greek ɔːnɪθəʉˈrɪŋkəs, ̩ɔːnaɪəʉˈ- (ʉ=Ʊ U+01B1, not ℧ U+2127). Ornitho-rinkus (orithai-)
- Echidna hystrix (hĭs´trĭks = histriks)
- Echidna aculeata
- Zaglossus
- Ornithorhynchidae
- T. a. multiaculeatus (firstly)
- T. a. setosus
- T. a. acanthion
- T. a. aculeatus
- T. a. lawesii (lastly)
- pinnae: pin·nae (pĭn'ē)
- Bradiopsylla echidnae (Echidna flea)
- panniculus carnosus
- genioglossal muscles, genio = dʒɪ'naɪəʉ, glossal = glɒsəl
- sternoglossi
- inspired air
- mechano- and thermoreceptors
- 1.5 mm -> one and a half
- 0.3 and 0.4 grams -> 300 - 400 milligrams (300 milligrams = 0.3 grams)
- milk areolae: a·re·o·lae (ə-rē'ə-lē')
- imbibe: im·bibe (ĭm-bīb')
- fucosyllactose - fyco
- saialyllactose - sire-lil-?
- crepuscular: cre·pus·cu·lar (krĭ-pŭs'kyə-lər)
- Spirometra erinaceieuropaei (tapeworm) - erinace-i|eu|rop'ee ?
- Noongar people (alternate spellings: Nyungar / Nyoongar)
- Nyingarn
Others:
- Featured (bio): Kakapo, Fauna of Australia, Myxobolus cerebralis, Marginated Tortoise, Krill, Island Fox, Orca, Sperm Whale Myxobolus cerebralis, Barbara McClintock, Saffron...
- Featured (computing): Color Graphics Adapter
- Non-featured:Whale shark, ...