Animals Flashcards by xxxxxxx Hutchinson | Brainscape

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Branta Bernicla bird

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Brent Goose

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Branta leucopsis

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Barnacle Goose

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Anser Caerulescens bird

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Snow Goose

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Anser Anser is what type of goose

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Greylag Goose

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Cygnus Olor exact type of bird

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Mute Swan

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Cygnus Columbianus bird named after a British illustrator

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Bewick’s Swan

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Cygnus Cygnus is what exact type of swan?

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Whooper swan

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Tadorna Tadorna bird

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Shelduck

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Aix Galericulata bird

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Mandarin duck

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Spatula Clypeata bird

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Shoveler

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Mareca Penelope bird

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Wigeon

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Anas Platyrhynchos bird

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Mallard

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Anas crecca bird

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Teal

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Aythya Americana bird

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Redhead duck

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Somateria Mollissima bird

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Eider

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Eider’s alternative name is named after which Saint?

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St Cuthbert’s Duck

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Histrionicus histrionicus is bird named after a character in Commedia dell-Arte

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Harlequin

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In North America what type of sea duck is known as Lords and Ladies?

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Harlequin

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Melanitta is what type of sea duck?

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Scoter

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Bucephala Clangula bird

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Goldeneye

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Oxyura jamaicensis type of duck

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Ruddy Duck

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Lagopus lagopus - also willow ptarmigan in pheasant family

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Red Grouse

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Lagopus muta - official bird for Canadian territory of Nunavut

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Ptarmigan

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Tetrao Urogallus, largest of the grouses

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Capercaillie - also known as cock-of-the-woods

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Lyrurus Tetrix what large game bird

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Black Grouse

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Perdix perdix - sometimes known as hun.

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Grey partridge

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Golden/Chinese/rainbow: chrysolophus pictus what bird

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Pheasant

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Chrysolophus amherstiae named after British naturalist who lived in India sent bird to London in 1828.

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Lady Amherst’s Pheasant

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Phasianus colchicus meaning of the Black Sea

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Pheasant

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Coturnix coturnix bird

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Quail

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Chordeiles Minor bird

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Common Nighthawk

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Caprimulgus europaeus bird

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Nightjar - name comes from goatsucker

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Chaetura pelagica is a swift with which house part preceding word swift

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Chimney Swift

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Apus apus bird

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Swift

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Otis tarda - extinct in uk but 40 now on Salisbury plains

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Great Bustard

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Tetrax tetrax bird genus name from Greek and refers to game bird mentioned by Aristophanes

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Little Bustard

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Cuculus Canorus bird - Aristotle aware of tale that this bird turned to hawks in winter

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Cuckoo

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Gowk is the old name for which bird in northern England

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Cuckoo

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On hearing the first cuckoo in spring symphonic poem from Norway composed By which British composer

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Frederick Delius

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Martlet in heraldry refers to which bird

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Swift (formerly known as martlets)

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Latin for “after this therefore because of this”, temporal sequence implies causation. x happened, then y happened, therefore x caused y.

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Post hoc ergo propter hoc

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Latin argumentum ad lapidem - fallacy dismissing a claim as absurd without demonstrating proof for its absurdity

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Appeal to the stone

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Named after star wars character, in a jury trial what legal strategy is where criminal defence lawyer tries to confuse jury rather than refute case of prosecutor?

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Chewbacca Defence

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What fallacy referring to state of American is informal fallacy committed when differences in data are ignored but similarities are overemphasised?

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Texas sharpshooter fallacy

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Which type of galaxies designated S0, consist of bright central bulge surrounded by extended disk like structure but unlike spiral galaxies have no visible spiral structures and not actively forming stars?

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Lenticular galaxies

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What state is Yerkes Observatory founded by George Ellery Hale in 1892?

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Wisconsin

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What refracting telescope built in 1888 named after the richest man of california when he died? Now third biggest refracting telescope in world.

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James Lick telescope

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Name of astronomical observatory in LA, california contains Hooker telescope and 60 inch telescope.

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Mount Wilson Observatory

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Name of observatory at San Diego, owned by CIT inn namesake mountain range: contains 200 inch Hale telescope.

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Palomar Observatory

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Observatory in Hawaii located on big island of Hawaii on a volcano?

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Mauna Kea Observatories

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Name of astronomical observatory operated by European southern observatory located in atacama desert in chile south of Antofagasta. very large telescope (VLT) largest telescope there.

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Paranal Observatory

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Saltpetre nickname for what chemical compound

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Potassium Nitrate KNO3

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Port city of northern chile, has highest GDP per capita in chile, known for mining lithium at the moment but copper, silver in past. Fought over with Bolivia in war of the pacific (1879-83).

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Antofagasta

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Who became first woman to win Turing Prize in 2006?

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Frances Allen

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Alan Perlis was the first recipient of which prize in 1966?

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Turing Prize

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TCP/IP stands for

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Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

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Joint winners of Turing Prize in 2004, design and implementation of internet’s basic TCP/IP protocols.

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Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn

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2008 winner of Turing Prize: she won for contributions to practical programming language and system design

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Barbara Liskov (Frances Allen won in 2006)

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2022 fields medal female only second done on sphere packing in 8 dimensions

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Maryna Viazovska

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Winner of Fields Medal 2014 being first Latin American and lusophone to do it? Brazilian

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Artur Avila

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Streptopelia Turtur bird

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Turtle Dove

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Type of bird known name from harsh cry in Latin “to scrape”

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Rail

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Rallus aquaticus bird

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Water Rail

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Crex crex bird

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Corncrake

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Porzana porzana bird, name derived from Venetian terms for small types of this bird

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Spotted Crake

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Small four letter word preceding RAil sometimes for Porzana Carolina

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Sora

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Gallinula chloropus bird also known as swamp chicken

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Moorhen

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Fulica atra bird largely black except for white bill and frontal shield (as bald as a …)

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Coot

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Fulica Americana, also known as mud hen or pouldeau, commonly mistaken for ducks.

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American Coot

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Porphyrio porphyrio bird known as sultana bird from French

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Western swamphen

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Zapornia Parva bird parva means small

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Little Crake

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Grus Grus bird, types within this general class include Demoiselle, Siberian, sandhill and the brolga (Australian).

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Crane

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Antigone canadensis

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Sandhill Crane

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Reptile: vipera berus berus

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European Adder

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Reptile: natrix helvetica helvetica

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Barred grass snake

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Reptile: coronella austriaca austriaca

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Smooth snake

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Reptile: anguis fragilis sensu stricto

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Slow worm

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Zootoca vivipara reptile

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Viviparous or common lizard

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Lacerta agilis reptile

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Sand lizard

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Reptile: dermochelys coriacea

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Leatherback sea turtle

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Reptile: caretta caretta

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Loggerhead sea turtle

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What is the largest of all living turtles and called sometimes Luth or lute turtle

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Leatherback Sea Turtle

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Reptile: chelonia mydas

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Green sea turtle

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Three stringed traditional japanese instrument meaning three strings

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Shamisen

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Eretmochelys Imbricata reptile

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Hawksbill sea turtle

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Natrix natrix reptile

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Grass snake

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Zamenis longissimus reptile named after Greek god of healing

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Aesculapian snake

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Symbol of healing and medicine, rod wielded by god of healing and snake wrapped around it

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Rod of Asclepius

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Latin for heralds wand for staff carried by Hermes in Greek and Hermes Trismegistus in Greco-Egyptian mythology. Has two serpents around it and wings.

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Caduceus

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Emys Orbicularis reptile

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Pond terrapin

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Amphibian Lissotriton Vulgaris

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Smooth newt

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Amphibian Lissotriton Helveticus

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Palmate Newt

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Definition in botany, five or more lobes whose midribs all radiate from one point. In zoology, in antler, angles between tines partly filled in to form a a broad flat surface as in fallow deer or moose.

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Palmate

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Prong or Sharp joint such that on a fork or antler

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Tine

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Triturus cristalus newt known as great crested newt, alternative name what due to jagged crest.

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Warty Newt

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Posterior orifice that serves as only opening for digestive, reproductive and urinary tracts of many vertebrates. Excrete both faeces and urine. Comes from Latin for cleanse or sewer.

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Cloaca

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Bufo bufo amphibian

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Common toad

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Bufo spinosus amphibian

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Spiny toad

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Epidalea calamita amphibian

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Natterjack toad

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Rana Temporaria amphibian

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Common frog

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Rana arvalis amphibian

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Moor frog

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Pelophylax lessonae amphibian

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Pool frog

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Salamandra salamandra amphibian

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Fire salamander

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Alytes obstetricans amphibian

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Midwife toad

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Bombina Variegata amphibian

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Yellow bellied toad

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Hyla arborea amphibian

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European tree frog

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Xenopus Laevis - now extinct apart from one place in Uk amphibian

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African clawed toad

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Salix Triandra is a willow named after which seed

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Almond Willow

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Prunus Amygdalus or Prunus Dulcis in the peach family

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Almond

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In botany, what is an indehiscent fruit in which outer fleshy part surrounds a single shell (pit, stone or pyrena) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside.

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Drupe

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Crocuta crocuta animal

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Spotted hyena

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Chlorocebus aethiops is an Old World monkey with long white tufts of hair along the sides of its face: Ethiopia Sudan Djibouti

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Grivet

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Papio anubis what type of primate with colour in name

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Olive Baboon

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Phacochoerus africanus animal

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Common Warthog

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Syncerus caffer animal

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African Buffalo