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moonlight2005
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 Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 6:16 am Post subject: difference between kind and species |
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Are the following different in meaning or almost the same?
1. More than 1,000 kinds of vertebrates are endangered.
2. More than 1,000 species of vertebrates are endangered. |
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CP
Joined: 12 Jun 2006
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Location: California
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| Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2006 8:10 am Post subject: |
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They are nearly the same, since a species of animal (or in this case, vertebrate animals) is a kind of animal that cannot reproduce with other species. Species is more precise and probably the one you would normally see in prose talking about endangered species.
Yours truly, CP |
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