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category error

Posted by Anekeia on 09 Sep 2011 at 20:11 GMT

The experiments were conducted in a group of abandoned artificial ponds
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0024299#article1.body1.sec2.sec5.p1

By the usual definitions, nothing is native to an artificial pond. In addition, even if the ponds occur within the putative geographical range of the snakes, the snakes used appear to have been introduced to the system.

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RE: category error

Liyiming replied to Anekeia on 23 Sep 2011 at 01:29 GMT

Here you might misunderstand the 'native' by the usual.

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