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    Jun 18, 2010, 05:56 AM
    What two animals have different names but are moreless the same animal?
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    Jun 18, 2010, 08:24 AM

    Horse and pony?
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    Jun 18, 2010, 09:13 AM
    Hi, upchurch1!

    Could the answer be found in a book that you're using or notes that you might have taken in a class, please?

    Thanks!
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    Jun 18, 2010, 10:47 AM

    Porpoise and dolphin? Technically they are different, but people often use the word "porpoise" when talking about dolphins.
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    Jun 19, 2010, 08:49 AM

    mountain lion = cougar = puma

    These are exactly the same animal, so not "two animals" (or three).
    There are lots of species that have several common names, often in different languages. But each species has only ONE scientific name. So for the mountain lion, that would be Puma concolor.

    Questions like these tend to be very specific to the class you are taking, so you need to think about what your teacher said or check back to see what your book or other instructional materials said.

    For the record "more or less the same animal" is so open ended, it could be any of hundreds of animals. It's a dumb question.

    Good luck figuring it out!
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    Jun 20, 2010, 01:17 PM

    There is no such as a dumb question, maybe one lacking details... just not dumb. And more information regarding this question would be helpful.
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    Jun 20, 2010, 11:15 PM

    I didn't mean the poster's question was dumb, but as a homework question, it's not great. A teacher or textbook can ask a dumb question if it leads students to think about something in the wrong way.
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    Jun 21, 2010, 07:59 AM

    It seems to be the goal of our educational system to rephrase things in such a way to make them confusing. They say that the purpose of this is to help students understand, or to think more critically, however, all they really do is add more to something that is already complete. For instance, word problems in math, not that I have a huge problem with word problems, but they will change values, place holders, units throughout the question so you have to catch every detail and add a hundred steps on to the initial equation.

    I suppose your right ;) asking...
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    Jun 21, 2010, 08:04 AM

    In fairness to our education system: I suspect that the OP's paraphrasing of his homework problem may have eliminated some of the details - perhaps it was actually a multiple choice question. Or perhaps this wasn't homework at all, but simply a riddle someone had posed to the OP. Since he hasn't responded, we just don't know.
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