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November 20, 2009 by Grant Barrett

Gloaming and the animal identity crisis

The word of the day is gloaming, which means “twilight” or “dusk.”

Today’s list of the day is Animal Identity Crisis, which includes animals who have the name of another type of animal in their common names, such as the elephant bird and the sea cow.

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Photo by Eric Wüstenhagen and used here under a Creative Commons license.

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