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ANSWERING THE CALL OF THE WILD
- PART 1: Curling Up With a Clowder of Cats - Pets
- PART 2: The Animals Have Gone Wild
- PART 3: Animals On Payroll Working the Farm
- PART 4: An African Safari or the City Zoo?
- PART 5: Creatures That Live Under the Sea
- PART 6: Birds of a Feather Flock Together
- PART 7: The Rapping Reptiles on the Riverbank
- PART 8: Pack Conspiracy of Animals
- PART 9: The Small & Mighty to Creepy Crawlies
- PART 10: Rise of the Mythical Beasts
FROM THE SMALL & MIGHTY
TO THE CREEPY CRAWLIES
SMALL ANIMALS & INSECTS
THE WINGS OF A BUTTERFLY
BUTTERFLIES
LADYBUGS
COCCINELLES - French for red and black ladybugs.
DRAGONFLIES
LIBELLULE - French for dragonflies
BEES
MEHILÄINEN - Finnish for bee
OTHER INSECTS:
- CHOU – Japanese for butterfly
- FARFALLA – butterfly
- FLINDER – obsolete word for butterfly
- FLUTTERBY – a colorful and beautiful butterfly
- HELICONIAN - the butterflies of the genus Heliconius.
- PAPILLON - French for butterflies
- PERHONEN - Finnish for butterfly
LADYBUGS
COCCINELLES - French for red and black ladybugs.
- TENTOU MUSHI – Japanese for ladybug
DRAGONFLIES
LIBELLULE - French for dragonflies
- TONBO- Japanese for dragonfly
BEES
MEHILÄINEN - Finnish for bee
- ABEILLE – French for bee
- DRONE - A male bee, especially a honeybee, that is characteristically stingless, performs no work, and produces no honey. Its only function is to mate with the queen bee.
- DUMBLEDORE - The bumblebee.
- HACHI – Japanese for bee
- GUNJITA- Hindi for the buzzing of a bee
OTHER INSECTS:
- HYÖNTEINEN – Finnish for insect
- ISOPTEROPHOBIA - fear of insects that eat wood
- ATTERCOP – spider
- BAOODAH – Arabic for pesky little mosquito
- CLEG - A horsefly
- EMMET – an ant
- ERGATE - a worker ant
- NAMLAH – Arabic for ant
- PISMIRE – obsolete word for ant
- ARIKUI - Japanese for anteater
- EXHETES - Latin for a cicada chirping
- GALLINIPPER - large mosquito like insect such as a crane fly.
- JARAADA – Arabic for grasshoppers
- KHUNFASA – Arabic for beetle
RODENTS
ECUREUIL - the nut eating squirrel
CAVY - South American rodent with a vestigial tail like the guinea pig
YAPOK - aquatic opossum of tropical regions of the Americas, having dense fur, webbed hind feet, and a long tail.
- DARAMJWI - Japanese for squirrels
- RISU- Japanese for squirrel
- SINJAAB - Arabic for squirrel
CAVY - South American rodent with a vestigial tail like the guinea pig
- MEERSCHWEINCHEN – German for guinea pig.
YAPOK - aquatic opossum of tropical regions of the Americas, having dense fur, webbed hind feet, and a long tail.
- ZOKOR- Asiatic burrowing rodent resembling the mole rat.
MARSUIPIALS
ANTILOPINE KANGAROO (Antilopine Wallaroo) has a slender face and doe-like eyes, hence its name, which translates to 'antelope-like long-foot'. It is the only kangaroo that lives entirely in the tropics. Scientific name: Macropus antilopinus
BILBY- Australian desert marsupial, with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
BOOMER - A large, fully grown male kangaroo.
KOALA - The Koala is a cuddly, nocturnal, tree-dwelling Australian herbivore with grey fur, a big black nose, and large fluffy ears. A male koala is called a boomer. A female koala is called a doe. A baby koala is called a joey
RED KANGAROO (Macropus rufus) is a herbivorous marsupial mammal referred to as a macropod. This means it eats plants, hops on its hind legs and raises its young in a pouch on its abdomen. It is the largest kangaroo in the world and also the world's largest marsupial
TASMANIAN DEVIL is the world's largest carnivorous (meat-eating) marsupial. Surviving only on the small island of Tasmania off the southern coast of Australia, it is listed as endangered and near extinct. Scientific name - Sarcophilus harrisi. From the Latin names "sarco" meaning flesh and "philus" meaning creature/animal attached to.
WALLABIES are small to medium sized hopping marsupials that live in Australia and New Guinea. They are almost identical to kangaroos but smaller. Wallabies, like their close cousins the kangaroos, are marsupial mammals belonging the Macropodidae family and are scientifically referred to as macropods.
WOMBATS are pudgy burrowing herbivorous marsupial mammals found only in Australia. There are three species of wombat—the common wombat, and two types of hairy-nosed wombats. With a relatively large brain, it may be the smartest marsupial.
BILBY- Australian desert marsupial, with distinctive large ears and approximately the size of a rabbit.
BOOMER - A large, fully grown male kangaroo.
KOALA - The Koala is a cuddly, nocturnal, tree-dwelling Australian herbivore with grey fur, a big black nose, and large fluffy ears. A male koala is called a boomer. A female koala is called a doe. A baby koala is called a joey
RED KANGAROO (Macropus rufus) is a herbivorous marsupial mammal referred to as a macropod. This means it eats plants, hops on its hind legs and raises its young in a pouch on its abdomen. It is the largest kangaroo in the world and also the world's largest marsupial
TASMANIAN DEVIL is the world's largest carnivorous (meat-eating) marsupial. Surviving only on the small island of Tasmania off the southern coast of Australia, it is listed as endangered and near extinct. Scientific name - Sarcophilus harrisi. From the Latin names "sarco" meaning flesh and "philus" meaning creature/animal attached to.
WALLABIES are small to medium sized hopping marsupials that live in Australia and New Guinea. They are almost identical to kangaroos but smaller. Wallabies, like their close cousins the kangaroos, are marsupial mammals belonging the Macropodidae family and are scientifically referred to as macropods.
WOMBATS are pudgy burrowing herbivorous marsupial mammals found only in Australia. There are three species of wombat—the common wombat, and two types of hairy-nosed wombats. With a relatively large brain, it may be the smartest marsupial.
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A SERIES OF BEAUTIFUL WORDS BY KAI
The Collection Includes:
Defining the Brain: Website | Downloads (science)
A Beautiful Word: Website | Downloads (rare/obscure)
The Logophile Lexicon: Website | Book (literary)
Defining New Ideas: Website | Book (creativity)
Author Homepage: Bookshelf by Kairos (all my work)
Words posted by @kairosoflife on Twitter under the hashtag #beautifulwords and on my vocabulary bulletin boards on Pinterest.
Original content © 2020 Copyright, Kairos
