Elephas Maximus
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The book was published in 2011 (17th edition, the cover might change)
Zoological inaccuracies & mistakes
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Elephas Maximus
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It's just as well that Samuel Taylor Coleridge didn't mention about a seagull being unlucky in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. Various people have pointed out that there are seagulls calling in the music for 'Desert Island Discs' (
), as there wouldn't be seagulls flying over a desert island. Similarly there could be a link between seagulls and 'Goodbye Mr Chips'.
Elephas Maximus
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Dinosaurs. Learning to draw
1 dinosaur, 1 mammal and 3 pterosaurs.
2 mammals!
And I thought you were treating the Mammoth as a pigment of your imagination!
Is a father moth called a papmoth?
Father Abraham
The fact that it has 8.5 k likes, Is pretty strange. I wonder if one of those 273 comments are correcting Nat geo wild.
I guess people ought to know that their turkey looked like a capercaillie before they ate it! 
They might grouse later.
The would grouse if the reports that the diet of capercaillie makes their flesh taste of pine needles!
Or planet earth discs! (How I learned about the animal when I was younger).
The male capercaillie has an odd call: Yahoo is now a part of Verizon Media
Too far off topic here.
I have found a lot of these types of mistakes in national geographic books and magazines. Sometimes its just small things like the Wrong species of Ferret badger inserted for A Chinese ferret badger photograph. But other times its like-this, and I think African forest elephants were shown with a photograph of an African Savannah elephant once. Could be wrong though.
Elephas Maximus
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Are those pics from the page turning video?
Yah