I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings by Christopher Moore

Author:Christopher Moore [Moore, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction, Humorous, Humorous fiction, Psychological, Humorous stories, Psychological Fiction, Human-animal relationships
ISBN: 9780060566685
Publisher: PERENNIAL
Published: 2004-06-03T23:37:11+00:00

CARL LINNAEUS, AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SWEDISH DOCTOR WHO specialized in the treatment of syphilis, is credited with inventing the modern system that is used for classifying plants and animals. Linnaeus is responsible for naming the humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae, or “big wings of New England,” and later naming the blue whale Balaenoptera musculus, or “little mouse”: at 110 feet long, over a hundred tons, an animal whose tongue alone is larger than a full-grown African elephant—the largest animal to ever live on the planet. “Little mouse”? Some speculated that this ironic misnomer was perpetrated entirely to confuse Linnaeus’s lab assistants, as in Run out and bring me back a “little mouse,” Sven. Others think that the pox had gone to Carl’s head.

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