Derby Nature

[juliely]

Part 4 Types of wildlife, pairs

e) Harlequin and eyed
f) Pygmies and commons

Anyone got these please?
Thanks.

[sarumite]

f) Pygmy and common chimps perhaps

[sarumite]

possibly harlequin and eyed ladybirds.

[crofter]

f) I think these are shrews!

[crofter]

Yes! Check out www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/261.shtml

[crofter]

e) may be Ducks - but the clue is weak, if this so!
There is a Harlequin Duck - but also a White-eyed Duck (to name but one species)

[ulysses100]

There are harlequin types of the following :
fish , shrimp, duck, ladybird, macaw, beetle, bear, frog/toad/flying treefrog. Try matching one of these up with "eyed" ?

[ulysses100]

There is an eyed ladybird ( Anatis ocellata)

[crofter]

samurite's ladybird checks out. See the following

Anatis ocellata (L., 1758) (Eyed Ladybird) ... Ware, R. & Majerus, M., 2005 (Colour photograph), Ecology of the Harlequin Ladybird - a new invasive species ...

[sarumite]

crofter, you still seem to think of me as a japanese warrior!!

[crofter]

I sure do! Skilled in the martial arts of kendo, karate, sudoku, karaoke, origami, as well as solving cryptic clues!

Well done!

[sarumite]

No, reference is to the spelling i.e. sarumite not samurite!!

[crofter]

I hadn't noticed my error sarumite - thanks for spelling it out, otherwise I would have carried on doing it!
Apologies. Have you seen the film "The Last Sarumai"?

[sarumite]

Apologies readily accepted crofter. I would suggest that the last true ''Sarumai'' perished many years before the more remarkable 'Samurai'

[pandabear]

Maybe ......

There is a common crane (Grus Grus)

Pygmies and commons = Pygmies and Cranes ....

Pygmies were a fabulous ('as in fable') race that waged war with the Cranes .... Greek or Egyptian folk-tale .... referred to in later tales by Johnson / by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his tanglewood Tales, etc etc

[razza]

pygmies and commons-rabbits
harlequin and eyed-ladybirds