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The oldest and most prominent of the Valley's "wise women". In the anime, she is the first to realize Nausicaa to be the "Blue-Clad One" of prophecy; in the manga, the Dorok Mani-tribe Elder is the first one to acknowledge this. Voice cast: Hisako Kyōda (Japanese), Tress MacNeille (English, 2005)
Nausicaä (/ ˈ n ɔː s ɪ k ə / no-sih-kə; Naushika (ナウシカ, [naɯꜜɕi̥ka])), renamed Princess Zandra in the Manson International Warriors of the Wind English dub, is a fictional character from Hayao Miyazaki's science fiction manga series Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and his anime film of the same name.
Nausicaa (second from right) with Athena and Odysseus. Detail of an Attic red-figured amphora from Vulci (c. 440 BC)Nausicaa (/ n ɔː ˈ s ɪ k ɪ ə /; [1] [2] Ancient Greek: Ναυσικάα, romanized: Nausikáa [nau̯sikáaː], or Ναυσικᾶ, Nausikâ, [nau̯sikâː]), also spelled Nausicaä or Nausikaa, is a character in Homer's Odyssey.
The Pannonian souslik was a medium-sized species of souslik, with an estimated size similar to that of the European souslik. [2] [4] Its skull is estimated to be 42–44 millimetres (1.7–1.7 in) in length, larger than in the European and the speckled souslik, but smaller than large, Asiatic species such as the russet (), yellow and relict ground squirrel (S. relictus).
"Nausicaa" is one of Leighton's best single-figure pictures. She is painted full-length, leaning against a column of her father's palace at Ithaca and watching earnestly for the return of Odysseus . How often Leighton depicted that wistful, yearning look, gazing over the wide sea or peering into the distant perspective!
Urocitellus is a genus of ground squirrels.They were previously believed to belong to the much larger genus Spermophilus, but DNA sequencing of the cytochrome b gene showed that this group was paraphyletic to the prairie dogs and marmots, [2] and could therefore no longer be retained as a single genus.
Callosciurus is a genus of squirrels collectively referred to as the "beautiful squirrels".They are found mainly in Southeast Asia, though a few species also occur in Nepal, northeastern India, Bangladesh and southern China. [1]
Sundasciurus is a genus of rodent in the family Sciuridae. [1] It contains 20 species: Genus Sundasciurus. Sumatran mountain squirrel (Sundasciurus altitudinis); Brooke's squirrel (Sundasciurus brookei)