Other Interesting Facts
- Nicolas Baudin managed to collect more than 2500 animals and plants combined.
- Australia missed out on being owned by France by six days.
- He treated the local Aborigines with great respect.
- Nicolas Baudin made a report about the ways that Napoleon could invade and capture the British colony in Sydney Cove.
- One mexican frog and two Australasian lizards have been named after Nicolas Baudin
- Smilisca baudini (Duméril & Bibron, 1841) – Mexican Treefrog (Hylidae)
- Emoia baudini (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) – Baudin's Emo Skink (Scincidae)
- Pseudemoia baudini (Duméril, Smith & Johnstone, 1981) – Bight Coast Skink (Scincidae)
Please play the video at too 3:45-4:15.