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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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Does "It was a cross, a double-cross, a triple-cross" mean...?

Does "It was a cross, a double-cross, a triple-cross" mean "it was a fraud, a double fraud and a triple fraud"?

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Caranton also did not immediately tell ProAves about the unfolding discovery, and foundation officials were furious to learn not only that there were two specimens already in a drawer at Bogots Institute of Natural Sciences but also that Caranton had involved other researchers, including Colombia's leading avian DNA expert, Daniel Cadena of the University of Los Andes, in the project. "It was a cross, a double-cross, a triple-cross for ProAves," says David Caro, ProAves!
  

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You did not give enough context for an analysis. , home of the Colombian ambassador, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and its partner in Colombia, Fundación ProAves, announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical bird. ABC touted the feat as “ remarkable ” for being one of the first times a new species had been scientifically described from an individual captured, measured, photographed, and then released.

  • You did not give enough context for an analysis.
  • , home of the Colombian ambassador, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and its partner in Colombia, Fundación ProAves, announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical bird.
  • ABC touted the feat as “ remarkable ” for being one of the first times a new species had been scientifically described from an individual captured, measured, photographed, and then released.
  • In 2008, while Carantón managed ProAves’s Colibrí del Sol reserve in the Western Andes, he found a wet, unrecognizable bird dead in a capture net.
  • He could not find the bird in any museum collections and eventually captured, and killed, a second bird.
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You did not give enough context for an analysis. Here is the previous part:

“Last May, at the Washington, D.C., home of the Colombian ambassador, the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) and its partner in Colombia, Fundación ProAves, announced the discovery of a new species of Neotropical bird. ABC touted the feat as “remarkable” for being one of the first times a new species had b
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ORNITHOLOGY
Feathers Are Flying Over Colombian Bird Name Flap

Last May, at the Washington, D.C., home
of the Colombian ambassador, the Ameri-
can Bird Conservancy (ABC) and its part-
ner in Colombia, Fundaci¨(R)n ProAves,
announced the discovery of a new species
of Neotropical bird. ABC touted the feat
as !°remarkable!± for being on

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