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How the minke whale got its name
Philip Hoare writing in issue 99 of Granta: [Baloenoptera acutorostrata's] common name, as the whale-watch naturalists delight in telling their audiences, comes from a Norwegian whaler, Meincke, who...
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How the wheatear got its name
Note: Thanks to GrrlScientist for using this post on her Guardian Science blog, thereby quadrupling my daily readership count to at least four. Lapwing, dipper, swallow, robin, curlew… I've never drawn...
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