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Pengo, an Australian software developer [1]. Homepage: http://pengo.org/

Pengo maintains WikiProject Ecology: Ecology, Environment and Sustainability

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Biology public domain resources

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Redlist 2006

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Biological Cleanup!

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Hacker cleanup

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More Pengo Pages

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Photos Awaiting Articles

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Miscellaneous

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hey pengo want to know what albert einstein said of henry george "Men like Henery George are rare, unfortunately. One cannor imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keeness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice". - Albert Einstein

For My Own Reference (Wiki stuff)

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Stupid theories on what sets humans apart

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  • Imagination
  • Sex for enjoyment [and perhaps bonobos]
  • Ability to cook tubers
  • Running ability (marathon style)
  • Scientific curiosity
  • Tool use (sea otters)
  • Complex society
  • Culture (orcas)
  • spite [3]
  • ability to deceive (ravens)
  • morality (rhesus monkeys refusing food when another can't eat)
  • emotions (magpie grief)
  • personality
  • ego
  • bum wiping
  • cruelty (for fun)

Speakable articles

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Short-beaked Echidna:

  • Tachyglossus aculeatus: tăk'ĭ
  • Tachyglossus
  • Bradiopsylla echidnae: .. -sĭl'ə ( _ + type + echidna)
  • Myrmecophaga aculeata (mur-mi-co-faga)
  • Ornithorhynchus hystrix *** : Ornithorhynchus is derived from ορνιθορυγχος ("ornithorhynkhos"), which literally means "bird nose" in Greek ɔːnɪθəʉˈrɪŋkəs, ̩ɔːnaɪəʉˈ- (ʉ=Ʊ U+01B1, not ℧ U+2127). Ornitho-rinkus (orithai-)
  • Echidna hystrix (hĭs´trĭks = histriks)
  • Echidna aculeata
  • Zaglossus
  • Ornithorhynchidae
  • T. a. multiaculeatus (firstly)
  • T. a. setosus
  • T. a. acanthion
  • T. a. aculeatus
  • T. a. lawesii (lastly)
  • pinnae: pin·nae (pĭn'ē)
  • Bradiopsylla echidnae (Echidna flea)
  • panniculus carnosus
  • genioglossal muscles, genio = dʒɪ'naɪəʉ, glossal = glɒsəl
  • sternoglossi
  • inspired air
  • mechano- and thermoreceptors
  • 1.5 mm -> one and a half
  • 0.3 and 0.4 grams -> 300 - 400 milligrams (300 milligrams = 0.3 grams)
  • milk areolae: a·re·o·lae (ə-rē'ə-lē')
  • imbibe: im·bibe (ĭm-bīb')
  • fucosyllactose - fyco
  • saialyllactose - sire-lil-?
  • crepuscular: cre·pus·cu·lar (krĭ-pŭs'kyə-lər)
  • Spirometra erinaceieuropaei (tapeworm) - erinace-i|eu|rop'ee ?
  • Noongar people (alternate spellings: Nyungar / Nyoongar)
  • Nyingarn

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