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List of animal names. Mother sea otter with sleeping pup, Morro Bay, California. In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans, an essay on ...
This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember the scientific names of organisms. The binomial nomenclature used for animals and plants is largely derived from Latin and Greek words, as are some of the names used for higher taxa , such ...
Over 1.5 million living animal species have been described—of which around 1 million are insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million in total. Animals range in size from 8.5 millionths of a metre to 33.6 metres (110 ft) long and have complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs.
Since 2000, bonobo babies have been given names that start with subsequent letters of the alphabet — "A" for a baby born in 2000, "B" for 2001 and so on. Milwaukee County Zoo bonobo keeper Stacy ...
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
People are now giving animals the same names as contemporary names given to babies." He believed that as people have fewer children or no children at all, pets become more important in their lives. [1] In Australia, the United Kingdom [2] and in the United States, news accounts have noted that the same popular baby names were also being given ...
Geoffroy, 1796. The Senegal bushbaby ( Galago senegalensis ), also known as the Senegal galago, the lesser galago or the lesser bush baby, is a small, nocturnal primate, a member of the galago family Galagidae . The name "bush baby" may come either from the animals' cries or from their appearance. They are agile leapers, and run swiftly along ...
Animal common names. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Animals by common named groups. This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of animals which do not correspond to a taxon. Note: Disambiguation pages are categorized in Category: Animal common name disambiguation pages.