The newly-appointed museum director strode into the collections department. "Here's the problem," she said, tapping lean fingers on a label. "These Latin names are intentionally obscure! Ornithorhynchus anatinus? Haliaeetus albicilla? Elitist! No wonder attendance is down.

"Fix it," she barked, and marched from the room.

"Canis familiaris," muttered a curator.

"Nephelopsis obscura," grumbled another.


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