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In ancient times, the zebra was called hippotigris ("horse tiger") by the Greeks and Romans. [5] [6] The word zebra was traditionally pronounced with a long initial vowel, but over the course of the 20th century the pronunciation with the short initial vowel became the norm in British English. [7]
A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...
So the word for German possibly comes from a name originally given by West Baltic tribes to the Vikings. [23] Latvian linguist Konstantīns Karulis proposes that the word may be based on the Indo-European word *wek ("speak"), from which derive Old Prussian wackis ("war cry") or Latvian vēkšķis. Such names could have been used to describe ...
The Golden eagle (Steinadler) is the national bird of Germany. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Germany.The avifauna of Germany includes a total of 527 confirmed species as of December 2016, according to the German Ornithologists' Society (Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft (DO-G), published in October 2019; [1] four more were added up to 2021. [2]
The answer rests in something called melanocytes -- or the cells inside a zebra that produce the black pigment of their skin. ... Either way you look at it, zebra stripes are both useful and ...
The German naturalist Reinhold Rau, pioneer of the Quagga Project, claimed that this is an optical illusion: that the base colour is a creamy white and that the stripes are thick and dark. [11] Living in the very southern end of the plains zebra's range, the quagga had a thick winter coat that moulted each year.
The user, @nunchakusdragon, who called himself an "animal expert," recently posted a seemingly satirical video in which he alleged the Cincinnati Zoo bred a zebra with a giraffe to create a ...
A zebroid is the offspring of any cross between a zebra and any other equine to create a hybrid.In most cases, the sire is a zebra stallion but not every time. The offspring of a donkey sire and zebra dam, called a donkra, and the offspring of a horse sire and a zebra dam, called a hebra, do exist, but are rare and are usually sterile.