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Gerard Krefft, a Common card
Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft, was an Australian artist, draughtsman, scientist, and natural historian who served as the curator of the Australian Museum for 13 years.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 97
- DEF
- 88
- Power
- 185
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,400
Power 185 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 95 % of WikiCards cards.
Gerard Krefft quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Gerard Krefft card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships. COVID-19 pandemic on cruise ships 100 · Gerard Krefft 97 · Stochastic process 93 · Lise Meitner 87 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Anthony Fauci. Anthony Fauci 1,400,000 · Lise Meitner 190,000 · Fast radio burst 45,000 · Gerard Krefft 4,400 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He was one of Australia's first and most influential palaeontologists and zoologists, "some of [whose] observations on animals have not been surpassed and can no longer be equalled because of the spread of settlement.
- He is also noted as an ichthyologist for his scientific description of the Queensland lungfish, and, in addition to his numerous scientific papers and his extensive series of weekly newspaper articles on natural history, his publications include The Snakes of Australia, Guide to the Australian Fossil Remains in the Australian Museum, The Mammals of Australia, On Australian Entozoa, and Catalogue…
- Krefft was one of the very few Australian scientists in the 1860s and 1870s to support Darwin's position on the origin of species by means of natural selection.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Gerard Krefft article was read about 4,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 97 and blocks with 88: each hit it takes is cut by 35 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Gerard Krefft (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Victor A. Prout, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
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