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List animals until failure

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Re: List animals until failure

#162

I added Jellyfish and then Portuguese Man-o-war. It took the man o war, but crossed out Jellyfish and said "added a vaguer term", but a jellyfish and a man-o-war are discrete animals. The man-o-war is a colonial siphonophore composed of zooids, while a jellyfish is a singular marine organism. They're both in the phylum Cnidaria, and that would have been a more vague term had I entered it.

I added "kudu", a type of antilope, and it replaced it with "turtle". I don't know the relationship between the 2, but it doesn't pass a toddler's sniff test!

It's a bug with the way this disambiguation page is interpreted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudu_(disambiguation)

Re: List animals until failure

#164

Pretty cool but it won't allow "parrot" after "budgie" because budgie is more specific? A budgie isn't a parrot! (Wikipedia says it actually is a type of parrot, but I definitely refer to different types of bird when I refer to a "parrot" vs a "budgie")

Also claims parakeets are parrots.

Re: List animals until failure

#166
This is more of a typing game than anything else. It rejected “blackcapped chickadee” (wanted black-capped chickadee). Frankly that felt a bit tedious on a phone. Had to scrub through to correct and lost.
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