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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Sporcle Quiz: Scientific Names Translated (Mammals)


Besides helping you identify an animal accurately in any language, the scientific name of an animal can also tell you something about it.  Try identifying some of these mammals based on the English translation of their scientific names.  I tried picking some reasonable ones, without adding any overly ridiculously simple ones (i.e.: "Bornean bearded pig" is Sus barbatus... literally "bearded pig").



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