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School cards widget.- Phylo (or if you rather use our preferred term of endearment, Phylomon), is many things. It is:
1. A card game that makes use of the wonderful, complex and inspiring things that inform the notion of biodiversity.
2. An exercise in crowd sourcing, open access, and open source game development.
3. Freakin' awesome!


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classification: Animalia
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Domestic Goat
Capra aegagrus hircus


3 POINTS
• Capra aegagrus hircus has a MOVE of 2
• There are over three hundred distinct breeds of domesticated goats worldwide.
Cool, WarmImage by latyshoffa latyshoffa.deviantart.com/The domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus) is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of goat.[1] Female goats are referred to as does or nannies, intact males as bucks [...]
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Large Earth Bumblebee
Bombus terrestris


4 POINTS
• Bombus terrestris has a MOVE of 2.
• Bombus terrestris can find its nest from as far as 13 kilometres away!
Cool, WarmImage by Erin English breakbot.deviantart.com/Ferran Pestaña www.flickr.com/photos/ferranp/Bombus terrestris, the buff-tailed bumblebee or large earth bumblebee is one of the most numerous bumblebee species in Europe. The queen is 2–2.7 cm long, while the workers are 1½–2 cm. The latter are characterized by their white-ended abdomens and look (apart from their yellowish bands being darker in direct comparison) just like those of the white-tailed bumblebee, B. lucorum, a close [...]
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Tennessee Warbler
Oreothlypis peregrina


5 POINTS
• Oreothlypis peregrina has a FLIGHT of 2.
• Despite its common name, Oreothlypis peregrina neither breeds nor over-winters in the state of Tennessee.
Cool, WarmImage by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/Jerry Oldenettel www.flickr.com/photos/7457894@N04The Tennessee Warbler, Oreothlypis peregrina, is a New World warbler. It breeds in northern North America across Canada and the northern USA. It ismigratory, wintering in southern Central America and northern Colombia and Venezuela, with a few stragglers going as far south as Ecuador. It is a very rare vagrant to western Europe. This bird was named from a specimen collected in Tennessee where it may appear [...]
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Red Paper Wasp
Polistes annularis

3 POINTS
• Polistes annularis has a MOVE of 2
• Polistes annularis forms its papery nests in trees, shrubs and some buildings.Cool, WarmImage by Jacqueline Rae jacquelinerae.deviantart.com/Kittenwants www.flickr.com/people/kittenwants/Paper wasps are 3⁄4 to 1 inch (1.9 to 2.5 cm)-long wasps that gather fibers from dead wood and plant stems, which they mix with saliva, and use to construct water-resistant nests made of gray or brown papery material. Paper wasps are also sometimes called umbrella wasps, due to the distinctive design of their nests[1] [...]
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White Tiger
Panthera tigris

6 POINTS
• Panthera tigris has a MOVE of 2.
• The white tiger is not a separate subspecies of tiger. Its white fur is the result of a genetic colour morph.Cool, Warm, HotImage by Dafne-1337art www.dafneart.com/Anderson Mancini www.flickr.com/photos/ektogamat/White tigers are a color morph of any subspecies of tiger whose fur is white or almost white with black to light ash-grey stripes, though it is not a separate subspecies itself. To date, the only known white tigers have been from the Bengal tiger subspecies.[1] Compared to normal coloured tigers without the white gene, white tigers [...]
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Horned Puffin
Fratercula corniculata
Sorry, there is no photo available. If you have one, please submit here.7 POINTS
• Fratercula corniculata has a FLIGHT of 2.
• Fratercula corniculata nest in bluffs of fractured rock or crevices in cliff faces near the shoreline.
Cold, CoolImage by latyshoffa latyshoffa.deviantart.com/The Horned Puffin (Fratercula corniculata) is an auk, similar in appearance to the Atlantic Puffin; this bird’s bill is yellow at the base and red at the tip. It is a pelagic seabird that feeds primarily by diving for fish. It nests in colonies, often with other auks. The yellow bill plate grows before the breeding season and is shed [...]
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CARD ATTRIBUTES DESCRIPTION
Top Left: COMMON NAME, LATIN NAME
Top Right: SCALE#, FOODCHAIN#, DIET (photosynthetic | molecular carbon | herbivore | omnivore | carnivore)
Middle: CLASSIFICATION (Kingdom, Phyla/Division, Class)
Middle Text: (currently blank) SPECIAL ABILITIES
Bottom Graphic: TERRAIN (desert | freshwater | forest | grassland | ocean | tundra | urban)
Bottom Left: ARTIST NAME, ARTIST URL
Bottom Right: CLIMATE (cold | cool | warm | hot)
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