The most Canadian animal? It's not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the country, or the loon that gave the one-dollar 'loonie' its name.
The most Canadian animal? It's not the beaver that marks the nickel, the moose that pervades souvenir shops across the country, or the loon that gave the one-dollar"loonie" its name.
The researchers started by building a"tree of life" using Canada's official list of species, which includes 222 mammals, 674 birds, 48 amphibians and 49 reptiles. A species that has close relatives in other countries may be isolated and threatened in Canada, and a high ranking for evolutionary distinctiveness could help conservationists determine which species to focus on, he says.
He says the study published this month in the Canadian Field-Naturalist, a peer-reviewed journal, is the first to create scores for the evolutionary distinctiveness of species in a particular country, going deeper than the species' global ranking.
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