Talk:Myrmecia esuriens

A fact from Myrmecia esuriens appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 26 August 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William Anderson, a surgeon and naturalist aboard Captain James Cook's HMS Resolution, wrote in 1777 that the Tasmanian Inchman had an "almost intolerable" bite?

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Latest comment: 14 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Here are two pieces of online evidence to back up reference 9 and the associated claim that Anderson was writing of Myrmecia esuriens:

[1] (See page 7, Historical footnote)
[2] (see footnote in snippet view)

Maedin\^talk 13:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)Reply

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