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ANIMALS GONE WILD
​WILD ANIMALS

WILD ANIMALS - Any animal living in a natural, undomesticated state.
  • ​AGRIZOOPHOBIA - fear of wild animals

BEAR (Ursidae)
Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae (bears) that includes the widely distributed brown bear, the polar bear, the American black bear, and the Asian black bear.

​The English word "bear" comes from Old English bera and belongs to a family of names for the bear in Germanic languages, such as Swedish björn. This form is said to be related to a Proto-Indo-European word for "brown", so that "bear" would mean "the brown one". This etymology is semantically plausible, the word meaning "brown" of this form cannot be found in Proto-Indo-European. It is suggested that instead "bear" is from the Proto-Indo-European word *ǵʰwḗr meaning "wild animal".
  • BRUIN - BEAR
  • EN BJØRN - Swedish for bear
  • DUBB- Arabic for bear
  • GOM - Korean for bear
  • JÄÄKARHU - Finnish for polar bear
  • KARHU - Finnish for bear
  • KODIAK - brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia
  • KUMA - Japanese for bear
  • MIDDENDORFFI - brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia
  • SHIROKUMA - Japanese for polar bear

DEER (Cervidae)
Deer (singular and plural) are the hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the fallow deer, and the chital; and the Capreolinae, including the reindeer (caribou), the roe deer, and the moose.

​The word deer comes from the Old English dēor and Middle English der meant a wild animal of any kind. Cognates of Old English dēor in other dead Germanic languages have the general sense of animal, such as Old High German tior, Old Norse djur or dȳr, Gothic dius, Old Saxon dier, and Old Frisian diar
Other Words
  • CERF- Deer
  • CERVINE – relating to a deer
  • GHAAZL - Arabic for deer
  • HAVIER- castrated fallow-deer.
  • HUEMUL - A yellowish-brown deer of the genus Hippocamelus, of South America; the two species are endangered.
  • MUNTJAC - a type of small deer from Southeast Asia that is now also found in some European countries.
  • WAPITI - a large deer with brownish-red fur and large antlers (= horns like branches) that lives in the forests of North America

FOX. (Canidae)
Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. Foxes have a flattened skull, upright triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or brush).
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The word fox comes from Old English, which derived from Proto-Germanic *fuhsaz. This in turn derives from Proto-Indo-European *puḱ-, meaning ’thick-haired; tail’.
  • ​Male foxes are known as dogs, tods or reynards,
  • Females are vixens
  • The young are cubs, pups, or kits,
  • ​A group of foxes is referred to as a skulk, leash, or earth
Other Words​
  • ISATIS - The white or arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus.
  • KETTU - Fox
  • KITSUNE – Japanese for fox

​RABBITS (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha (along with the hare and the pika). Oryctolagus cuniculus includes the European rabbit species and its descendants, the world's 305 breeds of domestic rabbit.
  • ​Male rabbits are called bucks
  • Females are called does.
  • An older term for an adult rabbit is coney (derived from the Latin cuniculus), while rabbit once referred only to the young animals.
  • A group of rabbits is known as a colony or nest (or, occasionally, a warren).
    A group of baby rabbits produced from a single mating is a     litter
  • ​A group of domestic rabbits living together is sometimes called a herd.
RABBIT WORDS
  • A’RNAB – Arabic for bunny rabbit
  • EN KANIN - Swedish for rabbit
  • LAPIN – French for rabbit
  • LEPORINE - RABBIT/HARE
  • LEPORIDE - red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare
  • LEVERET – a young hare
  • ​RAREBIT - a Welsh rabbit

WOLF (Canis lupus)
​The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized.

​The English "wolf" stems from the Old English wulf, which is itself thought to be derived from the Proto-Germanic *wulfaz. The Proto-Indo-European root *wĺ̥kʷos may also be the source of the Latin word for the animal lupus (*lúkʷos). The name "gray wolf" refers to the grayish colour of the species.

The wolf is a common motif in the mythology.
  • The Ancient Greeks associated wolves with Apollo, the god of light and order.
  • The Ancient Romans connected the wolf with their god of war and agriculture Mars, and believed their city's founders, Romulus and Remus, were suckled by a she-wolf.
  • ​Norse mythology includes the feared giant wolf Fenrir, and Geri and Freki, Odin's faithful pets.
  • In Vedic Hinduism, the wolf is a symbol of the night and the daytime quail must escape from its jaws. In Tantric Buddhism, wolves are depicted as inhabitants of graveyards and destroyers of corpses.
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The legend of the werewolf has been widespread in European folklore and involves people willingly turning into wolves to attack and kill others.
  • One Greek myth tells of Lycaon of Arcadia being transformed into a wolf by Zeus as punishment for his evil deeds.
  • The Navajo have traditionally believed that witches would turn into wolves by donning wolf skins and would kill people and raid graveyards.
  • ​The Dena'ina believed wolves were once men and viewed them as brothers.
Other Words
  • CUSTER WOF
  • DIRE WOLF - extinct
  • PLEISTOCENE WOLF - dated to over 40,000 years ago,
  • OOKAMI- Japanese for wolf

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