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Colchicine
at Mon May 26 16:09:31 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Colchicine ]
People rely too much on color for a positive species identification. I work with the general public on wildlife education and it is sometimes hard for people to get over that. Science tends to use real morphological features as a descriptor and then color as a backup. In this case we're talking about a species that is highly variable, I can't emphasize that enough!
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*Humans aren't the only species on earth... we just act like it.
".the oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without
spoiling it."
Aldo Leopold (1938)
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Another thing - Colchicine, Mon May 26 16:09:31 2003