One doesn't have to be a botanist to know that Violas are both Old World plants and New World plants. One cannot distinguish specific species from an imperfect drawing.
The same is true for many of the other plant IDs.
If they don't like being contradicted by non-botanists, why are they standing by their identifications of crayfish, fish and cats? They are botanists, not fish and cat experts. They can't have it both ways.
It's absurd that they would identify the VMS crayfish drawing as a specific New World species when it doesn't even have basic parts in the right places!
And for them to identify VMS Scorpius as a Jaguarundi? when there are many Scorpius zodiacs that are dragons, lizards, and tarasks that resemble the VMS Scorpius more than it resembles a cat, that is really stretching credibility:
![[Image: ScorpioF73rDetail.jpg]](https://voynichportal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ScorpioF73rDetail.jpg)
The same is true for many of the other plant IDs.
If they don't like being contradicted by non-botanists, why are they standing by their identifications of crayfish, fish and cats? They are botanists, not fish and cat experts. They can't have it both ways.
It's absurd that they would identify the VMS crayfish drawing as a specific New World species when it doesn't even have basic parts in the right places!
And for them to identify VMS Scorpius as a Jaguarundi? when there are many Scorpius zodiacs that are dragons, lizards, and tarasks that resemble the VMS Scorpius more than it resembles a cat, that is really stretching credibility: