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Published: September 17, 2009
Implausibility is reality in labeling animal clans
I have personally seen a murder. Not the criminal kind; the kind with feathers. According to animal-naming experts, that’s what you call a group of crows — a murder.
For some reason, back when the English language was evolving, some guy, probably bearded and wearing skins stolen from a group of animals, decided we shouldn’t call a group of animals a group of animals. For instance, instead of saying, &...
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