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[Richard Chirgwin]

On 9/04/11 2:25 PM, Ash Nallawalla wrote:
>> From: Steven Clark
>>
>> On 09/04/11 07:05, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>>> antechinus invasions.
>> that may also be a consequence of language: some languages (or perhaps
>> dialects?) have only one word for 'small furry mouse-like mammal', so any
>> translation will always end up with the equivalent of 'mouse' - with all
> the
>> connotations that go with it.
>>
>>> What I didn't know until I looked here was that there isn't one, but
>>> four, local species of antechinus. So when I do my regular
> Until today I had never heard of antechinus and wouldn't know how to
> pronounce it without looking it up. If I have seen one in a zoo, its name
> would have not registered in my mind along with numerous other creatures
> that don't have a familiar name in English or Aboriginal dialects. A few
> marsupials could be easily be mistaken for creatures found elsewhere.
Indeed! To try and combat this, I have an antechinus "fact sheet" 
complete with photograph, and a note that they're a protected species, 
so while it's okay to try and keep them outside, it's *not* okay to kill 
them.

And the cleaner nearly quit today, because someone took it into their 
head to drown a couple in the toilet. <sigh>

RC

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