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Scrambling
Image by A.Davey
This Swallow-tailed Gull is clearly top-gun material, scrambling like mad in pursuit of an objective known only to it and perhaps whichever gull it was that set it off.
Note to Viewers: With this photo I am implementing my new rules for using scientific names in my photostream. I've been putting a lot of thought into this subject - at least a good ten minutes spread over about ten days.
Rather than pointlessly giving the species' scientific latin names every time I post a photo of an animal, henceforth I will give the scientific name one time and one time only: the very first time I post a feature photo of any given animal in my photostream. By that, I mean an image where the animal is photo's principal subject.
After that, you'll have to suck it up and deal with the common name, which is something all of these animals have, often in more than one living language. It's not like we're dealing with zooplankton here, is it?
After all, who really pays any attention to a latin name, especially outside the peer-reviewed pages of a scholarly publication or a publication with scholarly pretensions? Oh, I suppose I'd give a latin name more than once if the scientific community were embroiled in a huge controversy of how to classify an animal, a subject many of the rest of us might pay attention to if our cable subscription had been cut off and that paint we'd been watching just wasn't drying fast enough.
Let's face it, though: scientists and taxonomists have been through the Galapagos archipelago's flora and fauna with a fine-toothed comb more thoroughly than a mom whose kid gets sent home with a note about head lice. Even the newly-discovered species of Land Iguana wasn't really news: they'd always known they'd been there; it's just that the scientists were a tad slow on the uptake.
There may be some exceptions, such as when I can't remember whether I've yet posted a definitive image of an animal or plant with the species' scientific name, or every time the scientific name happens to be Graspus graspus which I think is a hilarious scientific name for a crab, period.
Call me a Philistine or call me a cab; just don't expect me to go on displaying false scholarship and erudition by flashing latin (not latino) gang signs at you every time I show you an animal. All it does is prove I can cut and paste from Wikipedia and use the HTML codes for italicizing text.
Sorry Mr. Swallow-taied Gull (Redacto redactus), but someone had to be first. Don't take it personally: its only flickr business.
I still haven't decided whether I will use the scientific name as a tag. I think not. Any scientist who's using flickr as a research database by using latin names as search terms is probably way off in left field (my position of choice back in grade school softball) to begin with, and there's no point in encouraging that sort of scholarly malpractice, is there.
