At 09:02 PM 5/31/2003, you wrote:
daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Where was the discussion for the naming convention for animals. A new user is reverting the Canada goose, and I really don't want to get into that whole fight again.
Danny
It was never resolved. According to the The Globe and Mail Style Book: "The generic English names of animals and plants, and common adjectives attached to them, are lower-case". Certainly the provisions of a Canadian style book should apply to a Canadian species.
Also the Style Manual for Biological Journals as "Prepared by the Committee on Form and Style of the Conference of Biological Editors of the American Institute of Biological Sciences" states at page 68, "Generic names used as vernacular names are neither italicized nor capitalized"
The Canada goose is not a strictly Canadian species. There are countless Canada geese every day (during the appropriate season) in my neighborhood, and I live in California.
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"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of great moral crisis." -Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321